Surfing my way through Panama and Costa Rica CARIBBEAN SURF

We just left Panama City and we're heading to Bocas del Toro. Excellent sleep last night on the overnight bus. All right now that we're here we're gonna find a taxi. It's pretty cool. It's such a killer vibe hey. So this is surf number two or three in Panama. Yeah it's been fun. I mean it's short period swells here. We're in the Caribbean right. It's my first time but I found a little spot that I've been eyeing off where there's pretty much no one out generally. It's pretty shallow and sketchy so I'm gonna go and try that now. Look at this little setup though. So I've got to a little spot. There's no one out as expected. That little slab there. Quite shallow. There's also a little wave just here too that looks fun but not as steep and exciting. So funny. There's a huge group of people way down there. People everywhere. Crowded everywhere and yet this little thing just sits there on its own empty all day. It really comes down to I think having that little contrarian mindset when on top of a rock or anything. Although this is close. We're just looking for these little opportunities. Look at that. Oh so fun. Yeah we're gonna set up and have a little go. How good's this little Caribbean setup. For a while there weren't heaps of waves. That was a problem. Ended up being some really good ramps but it got super shallow and literally as soon as I caught one wave these guys just went paddle from down the beach. But that's the way it goes. It's different different everywhere in terms of etiquette and stuff and obviously I would do things differently in Australia but hey we're not in Australia so just take it as it comes and enjoy our time here. Hopefully we can get another surf. We're about to walk across a bridge into Costa Rica. So that was fun Panama. That's Panama back there and that's Costa Rica up there. It's pretty cool. We've just arrived in Puerto Viejo. Puerto Viejo. I really struggle saying that. Believe it there's gonna be some waves are there is the question. First glance looks very small but gorgeous. Wow. There's a serious problem in that I can't see a wave over one foot. What is happening here? I mean there's little tiny ones. Tiny tiny. Uh-oh. All right there's no waves just yet so we're going to sort out this wave situation. A bit of ground beef with onions, tomatoes, salt, coriander. Saving some saving some cash. Cooking at home. Go down there and see if I can get a couple. Hey man. Oh well that last surf yesterday was just one of those unexpected little treasure chests. We went down the beach we were half thinking like let's just go for a walk but maybe I'll just bring the board just in case because it was kind of big and closing out at the main beach. Went over to a back beach and it was just golden. So so fun like really long lefts and no one out. I surfed by myself for the first hour and then a couple of friends rocked up and we just had like a golden session. It was so so cool. This place has been an unexpected really cool find. I've just loved it. Like really cool setup on land which makes the surf like more of a bonus. So yeah it's been really cool. I must say the locals have been some of the nicest locals I've met anywhere in the world. To the point people just who not even subscribers or anything like that but I rocked up on the first day at the beach and the lifeguard who's a surfer came straight over and was just like hey you're going surfing today and there's a really good right here there's a good left here there's more breaks further that way just out of the blue. It's so generous with their knowledge and time and then throughout the couple of weeks that we've been here people just paddling up mid-session being like oh sick wave man where are you from I'm from here you should go and surf here like there's a really good slab here this that just where does that happen in the world anymore I don't know so whatever has happened to encourage that sort of environment here I'm just all for it it's so so nice without being obsequious in any way or sickly it's just yeah it's special there's not many places left like this and there's so many options you know there's so many different beach breaks and on the beach break you've got a wave here and then 10 different peaks down the beach so everyone's nice and spread out there's a very low stress surf environment but yeah we're just doing all the packing now and just finishing up this is part of traveling and working on the road it's sometimes a we're taking a bus that's probably going to go for well we got four hours today on the bus and then 14 hours on the bus tomorrow just because this is just too much gear for the airport and then it ends up being quadruple the price to go to the airport when you've got this much gear so anyway we're just we're just about to do all that yeah it's been a rad trip rad time here in the caribbean now off to the pacific side north and we'll see if we can continue finding really nice fun waves and good locals we'll see all right guys thanks for tuning in i'll see you soon guardian to the galaxy hey buddy i want to try and live more like a sloth this guy just fell out of the tree whilst eating laid on the ground belly up and just kept eating and now he's just sauntering away the most nonchalant relaxed animal i've ever seen