“It was pretty refreshing to know there are still perfect waves out there that you can surf by yourself.” That’s how New Jersey’s Rob Kelly describes his latest trip – an exploratory surf mission to Panama armed with a photographer (Ricky Lesser) and Waterways Surf Adventures’ President Sean Murphy as his partner in crime.
In a world that seems to be shrinking by the minute thanks to everything from surf forecasting to Google Earth it’s hard to imagine taking a trip that includes warm water and good waves but no crowds as the trade off. “The whole vibe of the surfing on this trip felt more like being in Indonesia or something,” Kelly said. “Except here we didn’t see any other boats or any other surfers.”
Apparently Rob has better Karma than the rest of us.
“The highlight of the trip for me was a day we had at one of the outer islands. The swell wasn’t even supposed to really start showing until the end of the day, but when we rode out to the first spot in the morning it was already pumping. We surfed from sunrise to sunset, followed the tide to different spots and didn’t see another surfer all day.”
Yep. Rob Kelly is clearly in cahoots with the surf gods.
Rob Kelly must have done something amazing in a past life to get this view without another surfer in sight.
Editor’s Note: Rob wouldn’t tell us where and how to find these waves (seriously), so we’re not going to try to ruin the secret. But to learn more about exploring Panama’s Pacific Coast and hopefully (maybe) scoring your own piece of solitary surf nirvana in Central America learn more about WaterWays Travel’s Pacific Panama adventures here.
