Nosara is on Costa Rica's Pacific coast. The main beach areas are Playa Guiones and Playa Pelada. Nosara town and the local villages exist separately from the beach area.

 The waves in Nosara at Playa Guiones are consistent. The water is warm. The waves are very soft, very slow, and very fat. Playa Guiones is basically the most consistent warm water break for beginners and intermediates on the planet.

Because of the 200-meter no-construction buffer from the high-tide line, all the way from southern Playa Guiones up through Playa Pelada. In most of Costa Rica, concessions can be bought from the 50-meter line and up. Not here. That 200-meter reserve, combined with the original master plan from the failed golf course, is why Nosara still looks like Costa Rica. It's why there is no beachside road packed with businesses. It's why the development is hidden by green canopy when you look from the beach.

Nosara's Playa Guiones and Playa Pelada area was once a cattle field. Alan Hutchinson came in the 1970s with a golf course project, sold lots like crazy, bought more than he sold with borrowed money, and fled Costa Rica in 1975. The people who had already bought lots stayed and protected the land. Then turtles were found nesting at Playa Ostional, which led to the Ostional Wildlife Reserve. The early expats also helped bring trees and wildlife back to the area.

 This was not inhabited farmland taken from a community. This was a failed commercial project. The local Tico community — Nosara town, the villages — exists separately from the beach area. The beach development happened on land that was a failed golf course, and the people who came protected it rather than bulldozed it.

Go to the Nosara Podcast. It's long-form conversations on video, and it's been going since 2018. You can find every episode on my YouTube channel. It features people involved in Nosara from every socioeconomic status and background — both gringo and Tico, rich and not, famous and not famous — all the way from surf instructors and restaurant owners to local people who just have stories to tell. The podcast has been very effective at tackling the Nosara Gossip Machine by providing real information and actually listening to people.

Watch This Week in Nosara too. I'm already doing that on YouTube, and it'll get you up to speed on what's actually happening around town.

I want to fast-forward people knowing who I am so that they don't stop me on the street and say "hey, I heard you have a podcast" or "I heard water quality was important." I've already done three, four, five podcast episodes on almost every issue in Nosara. I want the conversation to start at a higher level. So if I've done a podcast on something 3, 4, 5 times, don't come to me and start the conversation there. Go get up to speed, then talk to me.

Nosara is no longer a simple surf town. It is a place where people are buying their second, third, fourth, even sixth home. That is the reality of the market now. There's a big gridlock in the markets right now, but the fundamentals are still here — the 200-meter reserve, the consistent waves, the vortex, and a community that has protected this place for decades.

People go to phenomenal beaches with phenomenal beauty and a better quality of life. That is what has happened in Nosara. Playa Guiones in particular has some sort of vibration — we call it the vortex, joking but also not joking. People who like it get stuck there. It is extremely sticky. People who travel around the world all the time will come back there again and again.

My focus is close to beach and big views. Those are the variables that hold their value. If somebody really wants to know where to invest or where to allocate funds — if their heart's in it, or if they're really, really concerned about the community as a whole, whether it's environment or people — they should get to me. I can point in the right direction once I find out what their intentions are.

I don't need to sell you something today. I need to earn your trust forever.

I moved to Nosara full-time on April 1, 2009, and I have never looked back. I'm a founding partner and the main partner of Surfing Nosara, which encompasses vacation rentals, real estate, and surf photography. I'm the primary owner of Coconut Harry's, the oldest surf shop in Nosara. I co-own Vaca Loca surf shop in northern Nicaragua. I sell real estate through a consulting model under Coldwell Banker and Surfing Nosara, focusing on luxury properties in Playa Guiones and Playa Pelada.

I have spent money, time, and resources to prove myself to this community for over 15 years. I have served on more boards and associations than most people even know exist in Nosara. I was an early member of the Surfing Nosara Foundation. I helped establish Iglesia Del Mar, the first English-speaking church service in the Nosara area. I served on the board of the Nosara Security Association and as president for two terms. I've been a board member of the Nosara Bomberos. I'm on the advisory board of the Beverly Kitson Library to this day. I was doing community work here before most of the people complaining about gentrification ever set foot in this town.

In 2018 I started the Nosara Podcast — long-form conversations on video with people from every socioeconomic status and background, both gringo and Tico. The fact that I as a white, successful, gringo businessman am doing the work that no one else is doing earns respect, whether people like me or not.

I give back constantly. It is not something I do for credit. It is who I am.