Surfing Baja, Mexico

Thursday, July 22, 2010 1

Surfing Baja, Mexico

By: Mark Anders

Sea of Cortez, Baja, Mexico

Oahu's North Shore is incredible, if a spectacle, and SoCal's beaches are convenient. But if you're looking for the best surf in the Western Hemisphere, head for the border. Since the sixties, Mexico's Baja Peninsula has embodied the classic surf experiencepulling your 4x4 up on the sand and pitching camp for a week of empty barrels and cheap cervezas. And here's the thing: With many SoCal weekend warriors scared off by reports of drug-related violence near the border, the region's lineups are now relatively vacant. So if you're smart about it, you can surf Baja as it was in the sixties. Go with a buddy who knows the region, drive only during the day, and travel a few hours south of the borderonce you pass Ensenada, you're set. Then make for the mile-long, crescent-shaped Punta Cabras beach and surf away. The nearest town is Erendira, six miles south, where you'll find cold beer and Coyote Cal's hostel ($15$60 per night; coyotecals.com) if you don't feel like camping.

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Senor Pescado
08/04/10 1:33:PM

Bullshit, have surfed Halfmoonbay , to Chile,WE have the best and most consistent warm water waves in the world, in El Salvador{since 83 f} and Guatemala where I work with small scale fishermen, AND we have points[no, no,no ask me, if I know you } only accessible by boat, ummmm tell you later costa rica, panama, not even close...... been there done that since 79, tropicooltours[since1996, just a portal] me, just a gringo, surfed all over this blue plant, except S. Africa, cold and sharky

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