Another week has gone by, ushered along by gusting West winds.  Which means another week of spring flatness on the East Coast.  Which means another post where I dip back into the archives for some eye candy featuring surfing.  The good news is that I got enough unpublished backlog that we can easily make it through all the mid summer flat spells.  I guess that would be bad news though because it would be flat, and also I have so many days shot without getting enough run.

Anyway.

These photos are from a trip I took with some of my friends back in August of 2008.   Our friend Jesse Rendell was getting married that next month, and he was using his between semester break from law school to go on a surfing trip that was sort of considered a “bachelor party” trip.  We just used it as an excuse to go on a trip, no real debauchery went down.  We rounded up our crew of friends that had been surfing together for a long time – both my brothers, Jess, surf rep / beer promoter Willie Fannon, and wildcard Ryan Bonner.

We learned that Nicaragua is cool because there is no one out at most of the breaks, the water is warm, the winds are always off shore, and you can find some epic beach breaks.  We also learned Nicaragua is lame due to police bribes, political revolutions, rolling blackouts, constant scorpion attacks, and hours of driving on random rock paths to get from spot to spot.

(Side note: I have a lot more photos from this trip that I planned on posting, but after I wrote the article above, I realized that they are all stored on one of my hard drives that is having a little bit of a health issue, hence there are no real lifestyle or lineup photos, nor photos of ryan or willie. Sorry guys – I’ll update with more when my hard drives gets over the swine flu.)

Our favorite wave was a wedging right that you could get long makeable barrels.

One of the few over rock waves we surfed.

Brad learning how to fly.

Classic Jesse frontside carve

Jamie found these rights about 10 feet in front of rocks. Typical.

Think Brad and Jesse were having an airshow.

Tried to get away from the typical tube shots after a while.

Brad got the barrels of his life with the haircut of his life

Small days were still super ripable.

Barrel

...after barrel

Nicaraguan Highway