You can see by the whitecaps on the horizon the trades are back. No big deal, we haven't had that many blown out days and on the bad days you can surf in the lulls. Here one of the local kids gets a lifetime slotting and is captured by Tony Roberts.

This is Tony's friend Al who spent his three day visa washing leave at the Surf Lodge. Imagine if The U.S. did that, made you leave every 90 days and go to Nicaragua! Costa Rica is a wonderfully generous country.

This is another Tom Taylor shot. Two of three shots further along in the sequence. It looks like he's coming out, but alas he doesn't. Oh what a view as the curtain closes.

TOUR REPORTS

Here's master lens-man Tony Roberts on the not working end of things. Tony's always to first get you stoked to go surfing and one of the last to actually get in the water himself. For not surfing much he sure pulls the big moves when he does.

You already know how this one turns out. I won't even bother showing you.

So farewell till next week and thanks for writing dale d.