Upcoming Event: 3/2 - Tuesday - Christian Surfers Weekly Meeting 7PM @ Rancho in Harmony Hotel
Every Saturday
The Escuelita de Nosara has a booth at the Nosara Organic Farmers Market located at Giardino Tropical. Help a child participate in summer day camp by purchasing one of the calendars made by the children at last year's camp. Volunteers also do face painting and give hair cuts for donations. New this year is horseback riding for the children.
1st Sunday of every month - 7 a.m.
Volunteers gather at the beach entrance points to work together on beach clean-up
3rd Tuesay of every month - 8 a.m.
Board meeting of the Nosara Civic Association. Members welcome. To become a member contact the NCA.
The break in Nosara was called Olga's since you can see it breaking from the restaurant. It needs a big swell to work with a lot of West in it. The left goes for about 150 meters and it is rarely crowded, since it does not break that often.
Nosara is the town just inland and to the north of this beachbreak, called Guiones. Playa Pelada is the beach about 1 km. north, look for the giant lookout tower on the Nosara Beach Hotel. The beach is beginner friendly on the inside, but when it is on, can be double to triple overhead on the outside. It gets deep here and the bottom is sand so it is easy to get under the big ones. Best size is waist high peelers for longboarders to double overhead barrels for shortboards. Only the biggest sets close out and rides can go for 200 meters to the beach. The crowds seem to be worst between January and March, and in July. But this only on the main peak, and there are empty peaks up and down the coast. Best tide is mid to high tide.
Playa Garza is never crowded because there never seems to be a wave here. But at high tide there is a spot right on the dot that works when it is chest high or bigger. The rumor is that the north and south ends of the bay will fire when the swell is two feet overhead. It is about a 1/2 km. paddle out and it is guessed that low to mid tide works best.
Playa Samara is a great place for beginner surfers. The waves are small and break gently, with the swell mostly blocked by offshore rocks. At higher tide is best for the beachbreak, offering decent longboard waves when there is any swell. Waves form at the edges of the bay during lower tides, but the 1/2 km. paddle keeps most everyone away. It also needs a lot of south swell to break.
3/6 - We've been enjoying epic, just overhead, surf here all week. Today, Sat., the swell direction nudged over toward the south and focused well overhead, slightly raw, waves on the main peak in front of the hotel. There were still smaller and less consistent good peaks working up and down the beach.
Conditions are excellent for the next few days but watch out for sketchy March wind conditions as we move into south swell and lighter off shores.
High tide in both the morning and evening has kept the crowds at a simmer instead of a boil with a session here and there with only a few people out.
3/6 - Waist to shoulder high with good shape. (3-5ft) The waves were goof this morning. There lots of clean makable tubes coming through. The crowd was on it though, making for a competitive lineup. Strong offshore winds are blowing and should continue all day.
Expect it to get good this evening on the incoming tide, as last night was excellent. Surf forecasts are predicting the waves and good conditions to continue for a while.
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3/6 - The Guanacastes are blowing for the third day in a row keeping us up at night and blowing the surf away during the day. Surf is in the head high range but due to the wind is a bit hard to get into and is fairly choppy.
If today is anything like yesterday the wind should calm down a bit around mid day and the surf should improve. These winds usually only last about three days so it should start to back off into tomorrow or the next day.
Organic Market 7AM-Noon at Giardino Tropical
Getting There
To drive there over land from the airport it would take from 5 to 6 hours, most all of it on a paved road. You take the Highway towards Liberia and follow it about an hour past the Puntarenas interchange, where you started driving north. Look for the Tempisque Bridge signs and make a left at the gas station. Then drive slowly, as there are a lot of cops in this area giving speeding tickets until about 10 kilometers past the bridge. From there follow signs to Nicoya, another 30 km, and then on to Nosara. It is best to get there during the day, since at night the last section can be tricky. The quickest way is to fly from San Jose to Nosara on either Sansa or Nature Air, and then arrange a taxi for the final 10 minute ride. (Remember these airlines don't take boards over 7 feet) Reservation Request
