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A little about Playa Zipolite, The Beach of the Dead . . .

Playa Zipolite, Oaxaca, Southern Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean. A little bit about my favorite little get-away on this small world of ours.

Zipolite, a sweaty 30-minute walk west from Puerto Angel, brings you to Playa Zipolite and another world. The feeling here is 1970's - Led Zep, Marley, and scruffy gringos.

A long, long time ago, Zipolite beach was usually visited by the Zapotecans...who made it a magical place. They came to visit Zipolite to meditate, or just to rest.

Recently, this beach has begun to receive day-trippers from Puerto Angel and Puerto Escondido, giving it a more TOURISTY feel than before.

Most people come here for the novelty of the nude beach, yoga, turtles, seafood, surf, meditation, vegetarians, discos, party, to get burnt by the sun, or to see how long they can stretch their skinny budget.

I post WWW Oaxaca, Mexico, Zipolite and areas nearby information. Also general budget, backpacker, surfer, off the beaten path, Mexico and beyond, information.

REMEMBER: Everyone is welcome at Zipolite.

ivan

Friday, January 20, 2012

Shit Surfers Say



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Shit Surfers Say - Created by: Joey Maiocco, Scott Nichols, Adam Walker, Tony Vercelli.

Starring: Adam Walker | @ADMWLKR

Thanks to: Mother Ocean, Pedro's Tacos, Your Hot Sister, Pelicans.

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  • pedros tacos...where its at
  • that board would be sick as a quad!!!
  • Nailed it one every one! Nice
  • Sanuk, you just embodied all of SoCals surf population in 2 minutes. God bless you.
  • @TravisWheeland AGREED!
  • My boyfriend surfs and was all sensitive about this and the second phrase out of this video had us both stomach-hurting laughing.... "I gotta take a shit"... surfers have made this their mantra :) love it and love all you surfers...
  • Pedro's Tacos sooooo goood. After every sesh, it's a must. And horchata.
  • @supertaj1800 Yah totally saw the Pedros loved that part too!
  • Ha! Oh shit. I watch surfing videos at work lolol And I've been saying: "I think I'm going to start yoga" lolol
  • at 0:52 you can see the "So Pitted" video on his computer screen
  • @vabeach7577 that may possibly be the best part to me….lol
  • hell yeah San Clemente!!


California to see two big swells (+ unstable weather) while Hawaii remains decent but not huge By: Kevin Wallis


MIDWINTER XXL UPDATE
California to see two big swells (+ unstable weather) while Hawaii remains decent but not huge
By: Kevin Wallis
SURF NEWS XXL Update: January
January 20, 2012
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  • GFS chart showing the large storm over the Gulf of Alaska that sets up a strong fetch just offshore for the West Coast.
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After one of the driest early winters in recent memory, the 






North Pacific has opened back up with a series of storms that are hitting the west coast with rain and onshore winds -- and some big swell as well, though obviously not as clean as the few NW swells we saw at the beginning of the month.
With this in mind, we strolled over to the forecast side of the office and got the official XXL update from Kevin Wallis and the team:
 

California
A large, complex low pressure system is developing in the eastern North Pacific with the 'parent' low in the Gulf of Alaska. A series of developing storms will rotate around this parent to a position immediately off the California coast over the next 2-3 days, setting up XXL size surf this weekend and then again early next week.

Wind and weather conditions will be very unstable with periods of strong onshore wind this weekend, particularly for Northern California, although we could see a brief window of pretty manageable conditions Sunday morning. At this point, wind and weather conditions look much better for early next week.
 
Northern California
The first of these WNW swells (270-300) will rapidly build into the region through Saturday afternoon and will peak overnight, if the storm continues to behave as forecast in the next 24 hours. The strongest swell during daylight hours will be late on Saturday, with a fading trend commencing by Sunday.
 
For late Saturday afternoon/evening, we will see 18-22' swell for the top deepwater/big wave breaks (35-45'+ faces). Wind conditions as the swell peaks Saturday afternoon will not be good with NW flow of 15-20kts (down a bit from earlier in the day) and some lingering showers.
 
Sunday morning will see a brief window of much lighter wind in between passing fronts. Light southerly flow early Sunday morning will give way to much stronger southerly wind in the afternoon 15-18kts, and rain returning.
 
The second swell will build in and be strongest during the daily hours, peaking Monday afternoon, if the storm behaves as forecast later this weekend. At this point it looks very similar in size to the Sat PM swell, but with much better wind and weather conditions as weak high pressure nudges over the region (wind Mon PM will be light/variable out of the NW).
 
Stay tuned, we'll keep everyone updated over the next couple days.
 
Northern Baja
Northern Baja will be a little limited in size, relative to Northern California, with this run of swell more northwesterly in direction. That being said, very solid surf will prevail Sunday late afternoon and into Monday morning and then again Tuesday later afternoon.
 
The first swell will build quickly during the afternoon on Sunday, after a slow start through the morning. By late Sunday afternoon and evening swell will be in the 12 to occasional 15' range (20-25 occ. 30' faces). Monday morning is still strong, but the swell will have passed its peak and the tide is also high in the morning, which will dampen size.
 
Onshore Northwesterly flow will prevail Sunday afternoon as the swell comes up in the 10-15kt range, with high pressure off the coast of Southern California/Northern Baja. Overall, conditions are manageable but not ideal.
 
Going a bit further out, the second of the back to back swells looks similar in size to the Sunday PM swell and will build in for Tuesday afternoon, if the storm behaves as currently forecast. Wind in the morning will be light, with NW flow building in the afternoon 10-13kts for some bump.
 
Hawaii
No XXL swells are currently on the radar, with the strongest storm activity centered in the east half of the North Pacific over the next several days.
 
We will see a series of NW swells for Hawaii over the weekend and during the week of the 23rd, but even the largest of these swells will not exceed 10' (assuming all storms behave as currently forecast).
 
-Kevin Wallis and the Surfline Forecast Team
 
Next update: Monday the 19th (at the latest; we'll likely update over the next couple days as these storms evolve)
 
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