Surf Nicaragua... well I'm trying. Worst season I can remember but it has to get better, can't get much worse.

Dale Dagger is Nicasurf... Well, not so much anymore.

I'm still dale dagger and I'm still involved in Nicasurf.com but I've retired from the surf tour game and I'm reviewing my options and liking what I see.

The last post on this blog was written five years ago in frustration. I started the whole surf tour game here. We lived aboard a boat the 36 foot Tonga. We owned the place. If you showed up at the airport with surfboards you were most likely going surfing Nicaragua with me. Then JJ opened a surfcamp. I aways tried to NOT call myself a surf camp cause we didn't do any camping. He was followed by Lance and together they brought the magazines into the mix.

Pretty soon we actually had several "surfcamps" in Nicaragua. Hell one guy even named himself Nicasurf International. But they weren't surf camps. This is what a surfcamp looks like.

I was running the boat, booking the tours, answering e-mails and washing the dishes. It just got to be too much. I had to give up running the boats and surfing everyday. Actually it happened all at once. I had three girls working aboard the Masayita and I let them have a few days without me while I sorted out various logistic problems. When I came back aboard I could sense the guests were less than thrilled to have me back. Thus the beginning of the end of my surfing everyday and the day the lightbulb went on saying women can run this thing better than I do!

I was looking for the exit and it took me years to find it. Kassidy showed up on my doorstep a few years ago and everything she touched turned to gold. Good thing for me and my future sex life we didn't have "that" kind of relationship. She put together a group of people and bought the surftour operation from me. I'm still involved to the extent that I still employ the skilled guys who can fix stuff that goes wrong and I still can tell a story or two.

I just got back from a 14 day surf trip to Isla Madalena in Baja California. While i was away we had the biggest swell of the year but in Mag Bay we had four to six foot really fun rippable point surf with just a few friends out.

Ken Ross rents the entire camp every year and invited just a select few friends. This year I got lucky and got invited. Best thing I did surf wise all year.

On the work front I'm building a storeroom, bathroom and kitchen set up for my beachfront property in Gigante. Wait and see, Gigante will be a big deal in a few years. Just too cool a place to fail. The new building will serve as kitchen and bathroom for the little surf shacks I plan to build around it.

Actually I'm looking forward to the real rainy season this October and November. Everybody closes and the tourists go home and maybe I'm just contrarian but it can't rain too much more. I bet we have great November.

Have any of you seen the new improved look of the condo overlooking Colorado? Here it is with a feature wall and Achiner photos on the wall. This baby is renting for $150 a day and it sleeps up to five. Walk across the putting green to surf Rio Colorado. ( the river rights are all time this time of year and the other end of the beach gets all the surfers)

Write me and stay in touch. Some of you have been following my ramblings for over a decade now, too late to turn back. Anybody on a budget and still want to squeeze in a surf trip? I got you covered.

write me at

daledagger at gmail dot com and stay i the nicasurf loop

dd

one last surf shot from Baja

Ken Ross, thanks again!

all surf photos by Clark Mc Pherson