Surf Nicaragua
Beside the humbled experience in helping to build a high school in a remote coastal region in Nicaragua with Surf For Life and Waves of Hope, I had time in the early morning to do some surfing.
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- First day of surfing in Nicaragua and the waves are great!
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- Yeah this is fun
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- De, James and I are exhausted after the surf
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- Let’s get some footage from the board
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- Pop up
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- Yeah some more surfing 🙂
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- Oh almost caught this wave 🙂
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- Morning surf is the best!!!
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- It feels amazing being on the board early in the morning
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- Yeah 🙂
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- Surf the wave
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- This is how I feel after surfing: Exhausted but happy 🙂 Here: James
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- Surfing the volcano 😉
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- Volcano Surfing! Yeah this will be fun 🙂
Surf Costa Rica
In Costa Rica I finally got the chance to surf on a regular base actually it was 5 weeks of surfing in Montezuma. 4 weeks surfing lessons and one week surf safari.
On 20th of April 2013 I join Surf For Life to help to build a high school in Nicaragua. Please support me with a small donation for the “Surf for Life” project. Every amount makes a difference for the kids in Nicaragua. The donation page with background information can be found here: https://www.surfforlife.org/give/Sven-Koble/
Every day I felt improvements and every day I was muscle sore from the paddeling, standing up on the board. Amazing. The feeling was awesome mostly on beaches without a lot of people, awesome waves, amazing nature and wildlife. My favorite beside riding the waves: watching pelicans passing by only a couple of meters from where I was waiting for the next wave to catch. Or watching monkeys in the tree eating mangos next to where we waxed the boards. Here some impressions:
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- Surfing with Paul, Marc and Petra and our surf instructor Pablo
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- Yeah catching a wave
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- Let’s get into the water
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- Wildlife on the way to the surfspot
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- That’s exactly how I feel like after surfing
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- Playa Grande the surf beach near Montezuma, Costa Rica
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- Garden to pick up the boards
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- Mmmhhh some delicious smoothies after the surfing
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- Great times 🙂
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- Surf safari with Pablo
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- Watching out for some waves
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- Enjoy the water
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- Playa Carmen
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- Thumb up for the awesome surf weeks
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- Almost went in bed with my surfboard
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- That’s the beach to be to learn surfing in Montezuma
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- Surf board impression at Santa Theresa
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- Do Sport often to stay physical and mentally fit (here Surfing in Costa Rica)
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- Affirming others for positive things (here Surf lesson in Costa Rica)
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- Ready to surf!
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- Let’s get out to the waves
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- Playa Grande Beach setting
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- Yeah riding a wave
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- Paddle Paddle Paddle
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- Yeah thumb up for the great surfing at Playa Grande
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- Great waves, awesome weather, warm water, great times 🙂
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- Thumb up 🙂
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- Wow what is this animal? A flying giraffe?
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- Impressions on the way to the surf beach
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- time to do some waxing before we ride the waves
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- my surfboard
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- Time for surf safari 🙂
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- Our surf safari to Santa Theresa
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- Surfing at Santa Theresa
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- Warm up
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- Surf instructor
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- Pablo is our man to learn us surfing and about life
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- Ok let’s try this pop-up on the beach …
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- And pop-up 🙂
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- Surf instructor explains us the beach
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- Yeah this is fun!
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- Lauren, Kat and Diane concert the waves
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- Surf instructor with Lauren, Kat, Diane
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- Time for a rest together with Joe and Diane
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- Surf safari with Pablo
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- On our way into the waves
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- Let’s go surfing
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- Surf time 🙂
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- Enjoying the scenery
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- Awesome beach near Santa Theresa
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- Awesome beach near Santa Theresa
Waikiki and O’Ahu Island, Hawaii
Waikiki was the start and the end of my Hawaii experience. It’s a very good city to stock up your gears, e.g. snorkel mask, new camera (old camera got to much salt water on the Na Pali Coast) and enjoy the city life. When you get out of the city the true Hawaii begins, with amazing Nature. Here some impressions from Oahu, Hawaii:
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- Waikiki Beach at night
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- Fireworks at friday night on Waikiki Beach
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- Hanauma Bay
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- Hanauma Bay for some snorkeling
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- Beach promenade in Waikiki
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- Delicious Acai Bowl
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- Live healthy and in a balanced way (here Hawaii with Acai Bowl)
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- Opposite of Fastfood, so true and so delicious
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- Sunset Waikiki
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- Surfing at Diamand Head
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- Surfing at Waikiki Beach
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- Waikiki from the Sky
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- Pali Highway lookout
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- Makapuu Point
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- Coastal line near Kailua
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- Love this scenery
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- Surf beach on the North Shore
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- Wow big waves at the North Shore
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- Mmmhhh some more delicious Acai Bowl
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- Bridge in Haleiwa
Snorkeling with turtles
In Maui and on Big Island I got the chance to swim with turtles. Very graceful creatures and very delightful to watch.
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- Some snorkeling impressions
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- A lot of yellow fishes
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- Thumb up for the snorkel ground here on Big Island
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- Can you spot the fish who is trying to hide
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- Yeah I love those yellow fishes
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- Let’s swim with them
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- Snorkeling in Maui with Shelley and Rick
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- Green Sea turtles in action
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- Resting Turtle 1
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- Resting Turtle 2
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- Resting Turtle 3
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- Black Sand Beach Impression
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- Let’s go for a snorkel with the turtles
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- Yeah Turtle in action 🙂
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- Amazing animals the turtles
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- Rob is preparing my first rainbow shaved ice
Night Snorkel with Manta’s on Big Island
What an amazing encounter with Manta Rays at Kona Coast on Big Island, Hawaii. The boat tour started at 5pm and just before sunset we were at the spot where at night time often Manta Rays go for feeding. Manta Rays are very graceful animals hunting plankton all day and night.
And as plankton likes light we were soon in the water holding onto a surf board with light bulbs attracting plankton which as you can imagine attracted the Manta Rays. And over years the Manta’s have figured out that they can eat the most plankton if they do a roll. Very amazing to see them so close.