The truth is I use Surfline, Magic Seaweed, Surf-Forecast, Wind Guru and sometimes I even just look out front to see what the waves are doing. I know quite a few people wait for the "Sirena Surf Lodge One Minute Surf Report" on Instagram and facebook that I do most mornings and afternoons, but that's just to see my ugly mug!

Without further delay, here's the take on the waves today, tomorrow and the week to come...as gleaned from the professional sources. Today, there's surf in the 5-7 foot range. Surfline is calling it 3-5 feet and there are three reported swells in the water ranging from 226 degrees down to 197 degrees. Each of these swells is good on it's own because they are 15 and 16 second period swells at about 2 feet each. The 33 degrees of crossup tells me that the beaches should be pretty good. If it was just one swell, it would be closed out at the beaches, but with two fairly equal sized crossed up swells this is actually really good forecast for Salinas Grande.

You don't venture all the way to Nicaragua to surf Beachies though!...you want Sandino. It's working too, but with low tides at 3am and 3pm today it's a bit hard to catch it early and now that it's the strong offshore flow, the afternoon might be too offshore...that leaves Salinas Grande as a good backup option...probably worth taking the boat ride to get one or the other. It's been working even on small swell, so we'll probably be seeking out the tight little barrels it throws on the inside sandbar on the morning mid tides this coming week.

In the next days the swell is supposed to dip a bit before growing quite a bit more as we hit middle of the month. Forecasts starting around the 14th are showing 5-6 feet and even 6-7 feet with swells forecast to be 6 feet at 15 seconds. If this swell forecast remains this strong we'll see 10-12 foot faces and it will be a good time for Outer Miramar and probably Sandino as the swell fills in and fades. Sandino will be big and mushy at the peak of the swell unless we get some monster rain storm that dumps enough sand on the bar to fill it in....I don't think that's going to happen even though there is a lot of scattered storms and rain on the daily forecast. We're back to the rainy season which brings lighter offshores and that means the sea breeze can move in... it's been offshore every day except one, but I feel like we're going to be seeing afternoon on shore winds happening more often as we get toward the October Monsoon season. In the big picture it doesn't matter that much because if you surf 4-5 hours in the morning, by the time the winds go onshore, you're happy to grab a tona, find a hammock and call the search for surf off for the rest of the day!

Aloha from Nicaragua. If you need more information about the lodge or the surf, you can find me on Instagram, facebook, the website, my email, my phone number....if you can't figure out how to get in touch with me...you don't get to come!

Cheers!