Isla Natividad
The Crew: Danny Muckley (Men's Open),Chad La Bass (alternate), Kevin Rose(Mens Recreation), Tracy Armstrong (Sweepstakes), Scott Farnsworth and Tom Richards (Pilots), Branden Aroyan (Lensmen), and Chris Keet (President SBSA).

The Journey: Imagine yourself gliding over open ocean in a two seater passenger plane enroute to a tiny barren island off of Mexico. Your gear and surfboards are stuffed behind the seat, and your heart races as you scan the horizon. The plane seems more like a flying pickup truck, than a highly tuned aviation device, but not to worry. Three hours after take off you will have landed on Isla Natividad. To the average person the best things about Isla Natividad are the inexpensive lobster dinners, and the seemingly endless supply of forty ounce pacificos. For a surfer, its the offshore tradewinds, and the hollow peaks that break evenly across the shallow sandbars.

The Break: Isla Natividad features several lesser known reefbreaks, and a long stretch of sandbars. The righthand reefbreak lies directly in front of the beach shacks, and on the right swell can be perfect. The sandbar down the beach is traditionally where the best waves are breaking, but on our trip, the reefbreak was the call. We arrived just in time for an increasing south swell and were the only surfers on the island. All of us took turns riding the perfection, and were literally surfed out by the end of the five day trip.

The Conditions: 4-7 foot perfectly groomed rights broke evenly across the shallow reefbreak the entire length of our stay. When the swell dropped a few feet, the beach break lit up, treating us to perfect head high peaks for the last day. The wind was offshore all day, every day.

The Food: Langosta, frijoles, jalapenos, rice, cervezas, pb&j sandwiches.

The Locals: There were no surfing locals on Isla Natividad at the time of our journey, however several claimed to be surfers. They said simply, "we only surf when the waves are good!"