With the prospect of absolutely no swell going on in the bay area, the banderas bay area, we got up before the breakadawn on thursday and headed down to La Gloria for a short half-day surf trip. Indalecio has been talking up La Gloria for a month or so, 3 meter beach break, right and left, about 2 hours south of Vallarta.
Pino Suarez is the town and the turn-off. Past Ejido La Gloria, 7 kilometers down the craziest dusty road, over large sand dunes and a big broad beach, at the top of large estuary lies La Gloria, an open sea, fast and steep beach break, 4-6 feet with a nasty backwash and heavy current.
Phil graciously let us in on his secret break. And we all scrambled to jump up as fast as possible on the gnarly drops, most of us eating it heavily. We all managed to grab a few waves, but Andrew and I couldn’t quite get a grip on the mostly left handed break.
I got out the camera and the video camera, so be on the look out.
