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Just waiting for the right moment to get out of here...Tamarindo, a funny little place, been on the map for a million years, you know the Incas came down to surf on stone boards!...well, its been on the touries maps for yonks but still has a sort of unfinished feel to it....the roads are shit, some pavement but huge potholes, ridges, washouts, exposed drains, tree roots, construction crapola, mud, blood and beer, and thats just the main street of the town...it straggles along the beach, lined with contrasting rundown dumps and new shmicko developments, feels a bit like Noosa about 50 years ago crossed with Kuta beach about the same time....

Just a quickie!

Bill Shum
2006-03-24 22:03:31

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Just waiting for the right moment to get out of here...Tamarindo, a funny little place, been on the map for a million years, you know the Incas came down to surf on stone boards!...well, its been on the touries maps for yonks but still has a sort of unfinished feel to it....the roads are shit, some pavement but huge potholes, ridges, washouts, exposed drains, tree roots, construction crapola, mud, blood and beer, and thats just the main street of the town...it straggles along the beach, lined with contrasting rundown dumps and new shmicko developments, feels a bit like Noosa about 50 years ago crossed with Kuta beach about the same time....and the service, or lack of it, is astounding, so many shop people, even in the boutiquey places is crap...like their all half asleep or couldn't care, bizarro,...wall to wall surf shops, surf clothing, tours/dives/fish trip shops, bars and restaurants.....and a lot of the crap they sell on the street is exactly the same Chinese made jewellry, carvings, batik sarongs, beads, bangles and bows....but some of the places have good stuff as well...I'm sure!.....but there are some great restaurants, last night we went to one back up in the backblocks and I had a fabulous seared tuna, tres fresh of course, like still twitching, just wish I had caught it!...excellent presentation, bottle of Chilean chardy...fcuk, we are doing it tough ...again...there are a few roads, well, tracks mainly and we rode around a bit yesterday, tried to get out to another 'famous' point break and had a hoot ..sloppy, rough and muddy tracks, slipping off the dry bits and down into the mud, wheels spinning, heart pounding, every fibre trying to wrestle the big adventure back on track, one pothole was so big you could call it a lake almost, splashed straight in and a huge wave of red-brown water went right over me, unbelievable, (gotta find a really fresh washerperson to get the t-shirt clean now!...hey, its not that I don't do ...