Costa Rica Travel & Real Estate

The 2006 Tico Travel Surfing Jr Pro/Am went off to a great start. Friday was the beginning of our 10 day week which had the biggest swell of the year arrive with us. Overhead sets bombing all spots where on fire. It was too big behind the host hotel Jaco Beach Best Western for the free surfing so most ventured off to other rideable spots such as Escondido, Hermosa and Agujas and the Island all which were at their best.
Shea Lopez and Peter Mendia were doing tow-ins on the outer reefs on some triple overhead faces.

Photo by: david McNeil www.devadproductions.com

Everyone had five days to warm up before for the contest which started on Thursday. We also went on an offshore fishing trip on one of the Pangas. We caught 15 Mahi Mahi in 4 hours and brought them back to the hotel, Roray wife Ui cooked up the fish for the entire crew. The swell dropped as the contest drew closer but the conditions and form got much better. By the time the swell came for the contest we had perfect chest to overhead peaks. Mother nature provided us with some of the most perfect waves for a contest. Everyone was stoked! We had the top  some of the top pro/am surfers in Costa Rica plus surfers from Brazil, California and the East Coast to make up a field of over 36 just for the first round of the Jr Pro division. The were also a large amount of participants in the Amateur Long and Shortboard divisions

CONTEST RESULTS

Photo: from right to left: Roray Kam (contest director),  Mike Brooks (event coordinator) , Jason Torres,  Luis Vindas, Gilbert Brown,  Juan Carlos Naranjo,  Ronald Brown
Jr Pro-1st-Luis Vindas $1000, 2nd-Gilbert Brown $500, 3rd- Juan Carlos $250 Naranjos, 4th-Jason Torres $175, 5th- Ronald Brown $75…

Boys- 1st- Carlos Munoz, 2nd- Anthony Flores, 3rd Jason Green, 4th Yuri Gonsalves, 5th Anthony Helberth, 6th- Spencer Ricardel.

Men’s division- 1st- Nino Myrie, 2nd- Keahi Kam, 3rd- Auturo Aquilar, 4th- Cappy Cheshier,5th- Shane Hlavsa, 6th-Kenny Keating. 

Sr Men- 1st- Cassio Carvalho, 2nd- Victor Nasquez, 3rd Wally Pilat, 4th - Greg Hollingsworth, 5th- Chuck Herwig, 6th–Roberto Savinu, 

Open Woman’s- 1st-Marianna Somullio, 2nd-Nataly Bernold, 3rd-Lupe Galluccia, 4th-Ariel Waller, 5th- Mallia Galluccia, 6th- Lorenz Brooks.

Open Longboard-1st-Anthony Flores, 2nd -Wally Pilat, 3rd-Marvin Perez, 4th-Greg Hollingsworth, 5th-Mike Stevens, 6th- Chuck Herwig.

 
Photo by David McNeil: www.devadproductions.com

Get ready to mark it down on your calendar next years 2007 CR Pro- Am in June promises to be an even bigger and better event!

For sponsorship opportunities or to sign up early and receive a 10% discount off your total package contact Mike & Roray at contestinfo@juniorproam.com

Jaco Beach Best Wetern Package Special
7 Nights all-inclusive accomodations ( all meals & drinks)
RT Transfers to and form the San Jose airport
only $649.00 per person

Fishing Report

Major bite on the Pacific Coast has moved north in the past week,
Until this past week, peak fishing had been south of there, out of Quepos and even further south in the Golfito region,

Kitty Cat skipper Rob Gordon at Carrillo said boats fishing just south of there are getting from 15 to over 20 shots at sailfish and one to three marlin every day. Early this week, he raised a 300-pound marlin that swallowed the teaser and then broke off.

At Barra Colorado on the Caribbean Coast, Río Colorado Lodge reports tarpon fishing has continued steady for the past two weeks, with action in the river mouth and along the rip line, with a monster 170-pounder caught Monday by Rod Douglas, from Kenai, Alaska, the largest we have heard of in a long time.
Reported by: Jerry Ruhlow (Tico Times)

From Michael Parise: Author “Surfers Guide to Costa Rica” 

HOT OFF THE PRESS!

The new edition of the surfer Guide to Costa Rica is now available and we have it on sale for only $15.00 including shipping & handling!
call or e-mail us today to get your copy at
mike@crtre.com or tele 954-373-8038
 
Here’s what the Costa Rica Surfing guru Michael Parise had to say about CRTRE in his latest 6.0 edition:

One of the best is Mike Brooks’ Costa Rica Travel and Real Estate or toll free 866-502-3883. “CRTRE” is a full-service travel agency that offers discounted airfare, hotels, condo and house rentals, 4×4s, fishing,adventure tours, surf camps—the whole deal. What sets them apart are service and knowledge. Mike lives in Costa Rica half the year, and has vacation hosts there year ’round offering what he calls a “free concierge service” where they’ll book hotels, surf camps, rental cars,private transfers and adventure tours at no additional service charge to his clients.They’ll also give info on good restaurants and of course, surf breaks.It’s all a local phone call away. Mike Brooks is a long-time surfer who has been in the business of sending people to Costa Rica for years and has also run surf camps and resorts there. I’ve been booking through Mike for awhile now and have never been let down—great prices and smooth sailing every time.

Their is news of a new bridge being built that will make the drive to Tamarindo about 45 mins less when coming up the Pacific Coast. So now I’ll be able to leave Jaco Beach and get to some big surf quicker when the swell rolls thorugh.

Tico Travel, Costa Rica Junior Pro-Am
Dates: June 18th-25  

Come down and compete against or watch some of the best Surfers the U.S. and Latin America has to offer or just take advantage of this unbeleiveable week long package and do some free surfing , learn to surf or go on some of the many Adventures tours or go big game fishing, Golfing or Wild nightlife for only $649.00 including all food, drinks including alcohol

For more information conact Mike Brooks or Roray Kam at mike@crtre.com

Costa Rica Travel & Real Estate (CRTRE) provides a number of services directly to individual Travelers and Real Estate Investors with their sights set on Costa Rica.

We also service Travel Agencies and International Brokerage Firms by providing our expertise and management experience towards ventures throughout the country.