When we arrived we were taken straight to the beaches west of Guayaquil. We were there for a couple of days with modest surf that was in the ~2-3' range. Great points however... showed tons of promise. Getting the modest surf leveled the playing field for the boys as well with everyone getting some mellow surfing in.
Setup at Playas
The view from Casa del Sol's beach bar. This is Montanita. It's the premier spot. It reminded me of Steamer's Lane in Santa Cruz complete with middles lumping in the, well the middle. The outside right breaks along a rock reef that jets out a ways, that reminded me of four mile just north of Santa Cruz. We didn't get this too hot at all, but you could tell that it can get good.
We spent most of our time up the road a bit on a beach strip called "???"
Some other highlights were all of us longboarding on some locally shaped balsa boards. They were pretty cool to look at, but that is where it stopped. They surfed terribly. Way too much rocker. You were lucky to catch a wave let alone ride one with any style.
Here is a long point that they say GRINDS left for hundreds of yards. When it works. We missed this by a day. This is the same place as that has the baby bones on display.
On one trip up the coast Jof and Wyatt hit a spot called El Faro. It had a handful of pumped up locals that took off too deep, only making the wave half the time and messing it up for everyone.
