Pedasi and Playa Venao

Ty and Isha shared a twin sized bed the first night and I took the other, while Josh took Isha’s super soft blanket on the floor. The next day we all moved over to a much larger room with a double bed, two twin beds, and a roll out bed for the same price. Josh again took the floor on Isha’s comfy fleece blanky, she insisted was no problem for him to crash on. We enjoyed this set up for five days and nights, until I decided to stay in a Cabana right on the beach in front of the surf break. Extremely basic, but no better location for waking up and stumbling a whole 10 steps to the water for surf in the morning. Josh liked our dawn and dusk walks on the beach every day, and hanging out under the rancho with the other surfers during the day, snatching any morsels of food handed out, and sipping off of the Abuelo rum bottles left by other surf heads. The stars were amazing at night time, as the beach is 45-minutes away from the small town of Pedasi which doesn’t put off much light anyway. We had crabs join us in the cabana every night, and fellow surfers join us each day. Besides the lack of food and availability in getting any besides the ‘plate of the day’ cooked up at the rancho, consisting usually of rice, and either fried pork, fish, or chicken, the accommodations were perfect, even if bare.

Having had to sit Saturday out, due to the large swell that hit the area and challenged even the best surfers around, I caught a ride into Pedasi to check email and get a non-fried meal. I did only a mini session before sunset, and on Sunday morning, Josh and I set out for Santa Catalina. Ready or not.....ok, we were ready!