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| Big black sandbars, blue horizons, white foam and continuous sea movement that offers us beautiful and perfect waves for practicing surf. These are some of the things that our queen of the Pacific, Hermosa Beach gives us. The small town, only 7 kilometers away from Jaco Beach, is developing slowly,continuing to show us its originality. It receives the majority the surfers thattravel to our country, providing them with comfort and a lot of activity in anatural environment. | ||
| | In Hermosa Beach’s northern sector is where the social life congregates, here the locals and tourists get together and it is where more professional surf competitions take place, even at night. Here the waves break and they break fast, and since it is not affected by any river the water looks green, as green as the intense nature that surrounds it. “Breaks”, waves, each one have its own name. These begin with “Terraza” (terrace), a very precise wave that acquires a magic with its correct “swell” direction | ||
| It is followed by “La Piedrita Fuego del Sol” (the small stone fire of the sun), that is a good guide, it always breaks there. The “sandbars” of “Las Olas” (the waves) are very comfortable. The “Backyard” follows, the fastest wave in all of Hermosa | |||
A little further, our monument “Los Almendros” (the almond trees), inspires us with its tubes. It is the gathering point for locals and it brings us memories as our old surf point. The truth is that this place has taught us to surf, has made us feel the power of the sea and its peace. The opportunity to practice here is infinite, every day we can have a good time and feel that we are real surfers. | ||
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| If we go south it seems like another world. The beach begins to open up, grabs more level, the currents are deeper, the waves break further out and they are bigger and perfect. This sector is interesting for its wetlands, lagoons and its great variety of birds. It is a Biological Reservation, where marine turtles Lora and Baula come to lay their eggs. The sector is known as “Laguna Pochotal”, surrounded by livestock and an abundant flora. |
| Following the road toward the famous “Tulin” river a wave with a lot of power stands out, with a very tubular right, called the “Chanchera”, (pigsty) because there is an old corral for breeding cows, goats and pigs, very typical in the area. Here the currents are intensified generating big soil movements in the bottom of the sea. |
But the biggest wave, clean and long it is in our dear “Curva”, (curve) “Beach Break”, to the south side of the “Chanchera” that breaks farther out, with more open waves and wider channels, perfect for high-level surfing. | |||
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Is always good to take a board a few inches longer since its waves become very precise masses of water at take off a is nd with varied speeds. The currents move the sandbars and change the position of the peaks. | ||
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Toward the south it continues breaking until the famous place called “Tulin”, with long waves of different directions, very consistent in the summer. Up to where this river meets the sea there are over 15 kilometers of beauty that the nature gives us for everyone to enjoy. | ||
| Hermosa Beach is to only two hours away from San Jose. It is an ideal destination to rest and to enjoy the waves. Especially to locals it has offered us the opportunity to practice this sport, an employment source and a place where to continue enjoying our relationship with Mother Nature. |
