Highlights from our second retreat of the 2015 season in Northern Nicaragua. The Amigas got super sick waves, galloped on horses and then challenged the local women’s kickball team to a game. They beat us 3-0, but it was super fun!
Tag: february
New Instructor for Winter 2015 – Emily Nanninga
Two Emilys for January to March 2015? You better believe it!!! You may have already met our first Emily – now to be known as “Em-dogs” who worked with us Nov-December 2014 and is returning for another season with us starting in January. We met this Emily on a retreat in Costa Rica last year that she attended with her awesome mom. She was everything we look for in an instructor – energetic, smiling, happy, super stoked, frothing, shredding, and awesome. She also happens to be smart and skilled in lifeguarding. Bonus! Here’s what she’s all about in her own words…
Born and raised in sunny San Diego, Emily grew up loving the beach, the water, and anything outdoors. So, naturally, when her mother brought home a $10 garage-sale surfboard in the summer of 2005, Emily was hooked, ready to terrorize the San Diego beaches with her mother who, thankfully, decided to pick up surfing again after a 20-year hiatus.
After graduating from high school, Emily’s love of swimming, surfing, and the ocean led her into a lifeguard tower, working the beaches every summer throughout college. During the UCSB school year, she kept herself busy surfing, rock climbing, and, beginning her third year there, working for UCSB Adventure Programs, where she led outdoor camping and backpacking trips and helped teach rock climbing, kayaking, and canyoneering classes.
The years flew by until June of 2014 suddenly came, ending her time at UCSB with a tarred surfboard and an Environmental Studies degree. Upon graduating, she spent the rest of the year lifeguarding, surfing, leading camping trips, and just having fun running around the west coast. Now Emily’s excited to start the new year off in Nicaragua with Surf with Amigas!
check out this video where Emily features prominently from our trip to Costa Rica last year
February Surf Highlights
People always ask – what are the surf conditions like in February? Well, you just never know. Sometimes it’s super small with just cute little waist-high longboard waves and sometimes we get a good swell and it’ll be overhead and kinda firing. This week was a mix of both. The first few days were mellow and easy and then half way through the week the swell cranked up and put the girls to the test. They totally handled it!