rs83 said...
My shot wasnt chicama. Chicama on the same day was 3ft and not linking up according to a mate who risked it and went down there. Meanwhile we had smoking 5 footers all day. Yew.
From what i hear chicama never links up.
In 88 it did I missed it on the way down but another Aussie got it at 6 to 8 foot waves ran thought to just short of the jetty.
I surfed it at 4 to 6 foot and 3 waves to the jetty on my way back up only time in 35 years of surfing I ever got wobbly legs.
Later they had the Peruvian championship comp there were around 60 guys in the water at times and it wasn't crowed!
Cold water but went out one day with another guy 3 to 4 foot (we were the only people out on the day)and the fog was so thick after we scored the 1st waves we never caught sight each other for over 2 hours in the water and walking back out to the take off point.
In those days hanging at Chicama ( Hombres) was hard work used to go back into Huanchaco for R&R.
Remember they had a dog (El Pero) drank fly poison, Hombre and his daughter tried forcing sea water down its throat, swinging it by the tail etc, Pero didn't respond so they left him on the beach to die it was a stinking hot day.
I got Pero and put him in the shade with some water, fed him etc next day he was fine trotting around like nothing had happened.
Sorry everyone I spent a year surfing from Mexico to South America 87 / 88 photos got me going.
