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Category: Local Ticos

  • This Week In Nosara #40 Late September 2024: Surf, Water Moratorium Updates, Old Honolei, Happy Birthday Brian!!!

    This Week In Nosara #40 Late September 2024: Surf, Water Moratorium Updates, Old Honolei, Happy Birthday Brian!!!

    This Week In Nosara #40 is late September 2024…Here’s basic outline of this episode:

    • Some quality surf photos & a couple videos from ⁠⁠Kaiya at Surfing Nosara. ⁠⁠
    • Take a look from the air Playa Guiones overlooking Las Huacas, Pelada, North Guiones, Main Street Calle Modelo, J & K sections, South Guiones, Punta Garza, Esperanza & South Las Huacas
    • Updates from the Playas de Nosara ASADA available to everyone on their Facebook page. They are providing updates about water outages, updates to the system, which areas are to be affected, community updates & answering questions.
    • The biggest update is water moratorium in place for new water approval letters. The ASADA can not say when this will change because we need to provide 20 year in advance coverage so need new wells & legal processing all to take place
    • Rich predicts existing construction & properties with water meters like K45 & ones with approved water letters like R6 will become highly sought after. However, there are not many properties with water letters in place
    • K45 is going on the market for sale (3000m2 with ocean view in K section & a water meter). It is the old Honolei Restaurant & house Brian & Kyle Bombard used to live in. Rich had birthday party there 15 years ago photo with a young Brian in the background & ironically today is Brian’s birthday! Didn’t know about that till after this was done.
    • Surf footage from Guiones thanks to Kaiya
    • Nosara Civic Association reminds us to celebrate 203 years of Independence!
    • NOCA leader Michel came on the Nosara Podcast; he’s an awesome guy check it out when you want to feel good
    • WCA water updates & need volunteers
    • MoviemientoGuardianes is doing awesome things!!
    • Stop by La Roca next time driving into or out of Nosara… Terrific views & great experience

  • Pao Barrera details purpose of the Triple Crown of Surf Nosara hosted by Asociacion de Surf Nosara + ideas on how to help

    Pao Barrera details purpose of the Triple Crown of Surf Nosara hosted by Asociacion de Surf Nosara + ideas on how to help

    Long time friend Pao Barrera dropped in for her first Nosara Podcast episode to explain the purpose & intentions for Triple Crown of Surf Nosara contests plus explain how & why the Asociacion de Surf Nosara is asking for support from the local community & visitors.

    Pao is pleasure to be around, and it is fun to see her growing family evolve while she continues to be a pillar in the community.

    She serves as vice president for the Asociacion de Surf Nosara & their main objective is to unite people through surfing to make a difference in the community for a greater good.

    They are paying prize $ to winners plus they are getting local children involved in the festivities. They are asking for people to come join in on the fun plus consider anything and everything from financial to gift donations which may help serve as prizes & or benefit local kids. Some local leaders of the surf community are assisting Dreamcatchers Foundation on a regular basis & overall the Asociacion is committed to uniting the community through surfing.


    *There’s several ‘Rich rants’ in this episode pertaining to community items; especially about empowering the local Tico populace with the education and skill set systems to acquire higher end jobs and own their own successful businesses and become the future.

    Personally I am growing quite tired of people directing anger & frustration about Nosara’s challenges without being part of a solution. Being upset or angry is OK, but direct it to the right direction… The Asociacion de Surf Nosara is doing this & it has my attention a great deal.

    The Asociacion de Surf Nosara is happy for anyone & everyone to help any number of ways ranging from financial assistance to used surfboards, games for kids, and even just some ideas &/or helping local kids learn to surf are super appreciated as Pao explains in this episode.


    Per usual, I ask 3 favorite restaurants question of Pao plus a bunch more.

    If you’re in town get to the contest to participate or just cheer on the folks involved. Shout out to all sponsors and everyone involved looking to help for a greater good.

  • This Week In Nosara #35: Surf Contest, 200th Anniversary for Guanacaste, Local Surfers Ripping, Community Updates for last week of July 2024

    This Week In Nosara #35: Surf Contest, 200th Anniversary for Guanacaste, Local Surfers Ripping, Community Updates for last week of July 2024

    Last week in Nosara was a BIG one! Guanacaste’s 200th Anniversary, the 2nd event of Nosara’s Triple Crown Series (this event was at Barrigona), some fun surf in Guiones, all kinds of community updates… Hope you enjoy this one!

  • The Luis from Guiones Transports Episode: Primeros 12 minutos en inglés y el resto en español.

    The Luis from Guiones Transports Episode: Primeros 12 minutos en inglés y el resto en español.

    Luis López Alfaro es propietario y opera Transportes Guiones y es un hombre popular y querido que es un buen ejemplo del que pueden aprender los niños. Tiene muchas habilidades y continúa evolucionando. Comenzó a trabajar en la construcción, luego aprendió a ser mecánico… En el camino adquirió la pasión por andar en motocicleta y surfear. Luis explica su trayectoria desde él hasta convertirse en un emprendedor exitoso y cómo sigue su lema de “Trabaja duro y juega más duro” en su vida diaria. ¡Esperamos que disfrutes conociendo a Luis!

    **Nuestros subtítulos están bastante desviados y nos disculpamos por ello. ¡No hay suficiente tiempo en el día para hacer todo! Estamos muy respaldados con los episodios y buscamos voluntarios que nos ayuden con los episodios.

    Luis Lopez Alfaro owns and operates Guiones Transports & is a popular, well liked man who is a good example for children to learn from. He is a many of many skills and continues to evolve. He started working in construction, then learned how to be mechanic… Along the way he picked up a passion for riding motorcycles & surfing. Luis explains his journey to a successful entrepreneur and how he follows his motto of “Work hard & play harder” in his daily life. We hope you enjoy getting to know Luis!

    **Our subtitles are off a good bit & we apologize for this. There’s not enough time in the day to get everything done! We are super backed up on episodes and looking for volunteers to help us with the episodes.

  • This Week In Nosara #27: TWIN is back

    This Week In Nosara #27: TWIN is back

    I’m hitting more topics both community & personal business…