Each Saturday, Coconut Harrys Surf and Music hosts Board Swap Saturdays at Playa Guiones, Nosara. People can bring boards they just have laying around the house or they could just try something different.
‘Try stuff before you buy stuff’ is the theme. Frequently, we are learning that people have boards laying around that for someone else might be a real treasure and expand their quiver. So instead of dropping a bunch of money on something you might not like, you may as well at least try out the sizes and shapes and get a feel for it. Or just find somebody you can trade direct to. 
For this Board Swap Saturday, Rich takes out of Robert August mini longboard version of the famous What I Ride model and a Storm Equipment Surfboards finless custom finless board. The surf is a little better than we had expected on this day, but it’s by no means epic.
Here’s what life looks like in Nosara in the water and around the town in October 2025. All kinds of fun scenes in this episode and we hope you enjoy it.
I’m grateful for so many things about life in Nosara… Surf of course #1, then followed by people & the community in general, then perhaps variety of weather, waves & types of people with season adjustments, & there’s more. But music wasn’t in top choices here until November 1st 2023. That’s when I started playing at Alt Fin Co at Outpost in Playa Guiones K section across from Surf Simply & near Beach Dog Cafe & El Campo.
Since then I’m reconnecting with many friendships, clients gathered over the years & just overall enjoying myself and the challenge of it all. My favorite jam sessions are the freestyle ones where someone just names a subject & off we go… However, on this night I was super nervous because my first time playing publicly with Garret “G Love” Dutton who has been a long time friend since about 2010 when he did his first Nosara Benefit show at that time for the Surfing Nosara Foundation to help local schools. Erik Antonson is to thank for starting all of this and to this date we’re all friends & I’m hoping we can get Nosara Acoustic Roots Festival back up & rolling.
Ideally we get G Love, Jack Johnson, Donovan Frankenreiter, Ben Harper type folks together for an ideal kind of festival. Nosara is a model town for the world to see and in protecting it and its people other places may benefit, too.
My music history is 2 years of piano 10 to 12, then picking up a guitar at 22 years old & mainly being self taught with a bit of time in contemporary church bands before moving to Nosara full time in 2009. My most interesting setup up till 2009 was playing upright bass in a bluegrass band called Tin Penny in St. Augustine, Florida. This style of music really caught my attention & formulated my style for future years.
When when Nosara happened, I pretty much dropped music except for Kaiya’s Del Mar Academy talent show in 2011 or so & a couple times at Il Basílico, Harbor Reef (RIP), and here or there with a friend like Josh, Tacu, or Darrin E on percussion.
So mainly it was me fingerpicking in the jungle in between letting my kids beat me up in karate, boxing, Muay Thai, or BJJ & UFC TUF episodes & Gracie Jiu Jitsu lessons as part of their homeschool.
But the kids are old now & I’m pumped to be back into music. Was terrifying getting out in front of people because when you stink in music super visible. At same time, I’m not trying to make any money or be famous. I just want to make interesting music that flows and generally has pretty strong bass lines.
Here’s a peek at the Harmony Hotel’s Recording Studio with Alejandro Hidalgo & special guest Deblois Milledge. Deblois freestyles to Rich’s Django inspired riff & creates a new song call ‘Rodeo’ first attempt. Alejandro holds percussion & also guest appears in The Alejandros alongside Editor EQ Ale who edited this video plus contributed much of the music & sound production.
In this Nosara Podcast episode, Tim Marsh from Safari Surf School shares stories from mid 1990’s PLUS announces benefit concert with G Love & Friends happening November 16th to celebrate Safari Surf School’s 25th year anniversary.
Tim recounts how his Nosara journey started mid 1990’s in Playa Garza (small town just south of Playa Guiones), with a little super market & deli type of shop, right as you roll into town along Ruta 160 smack in front of where Soda Garza sits today. That building is still sitting there & most people are unaware about Tim’s family entry portal to Nosara.
Many of us may remember Casa Tucan, where Safari operated for many years until ultimately being bought out by the Johnson family as they expanded the Harmony Hotel’s services & presence into what is today is Al Chile & Sunset Shack. Tim jokes about karaoke night being the end of their successful run too close to a nice hotel 🙂
The G Love show proceeds are set to benefit Dreamcatcher’s Foundation CR and the International Animal Rescue (IAR ).
Anyways, hope you enjoy this episode with Tim & the good news he provides for us all both in & celebratory service to the community. Reserve tickets for the show November 16th &/or the private dinner auction November 15th with G Love Friday night at Tierra Magnifica.
Safari is looking for donations from businesses, homeowners, artists, etc so hit them up if you want to contribute in any manner.
Patrick is a multi talented man with high-level of skills in many arenas. He is a music producer, songwriter, performer, life coach, hosts a podcast (BEING with Patrick Cooke), father, and overall just a pleasant human being.
In this episode, Patrick shares his journey to Nosara, how facing trials and tribulations in recent years is proving extremely beneficial to him. We discuss how & why his life transformed into his current growth as a human and what he’s learned & he’s sharing it with others.
I thoroughly enjoyed speaking with Patrick and hearing his guidance about all kinds of different things pertaining to Nosara and just life in general. Please check out his podcast and take a deeper look into Patrick.
If you’re not interested in the mental health side of Patrick, just get down to El Chivo and listen to he and his new band The Quebrada’s rocking out! They’re super fun to listen to and a blast of fresh energy.
Gaby Barzuna’s episode is up, as is her first published song, Aldeas en el Aire. If you don’t know her already, we are excited for you to meet this talented musician, yoga instructor, and overall interesting person.
