The past couple of months we had the pleasure of Corinne Weidman from Erlinsbach, Switzerland (www.iuna.ch) staying in our camp. Not only did she display and sell pieces of art in a local art show, she also decorated the camp and is a member of the Zopilote crew.

Corinne, what inspires you in your work?

Corinne: I have always liked the art and handcraft of foreign countries especially the figures of middle and south America, Polynesian design and the Japanese animal representation.

You try to connect art and nature, where is that from?

Corinne: The nature plays a big role in my life, I try to spend a lot of time with surfing, snowboarding and hiking in the mountains, I think that effects my painting.

You’ve stayed longer in the camp then you expected, spending a lot of time on your art. How do the surroundings effect your work?

Corinne: First of all the motives adjust to the types of animals and plants in the environment I am surrounded by. Your get completely new inspirations and ideas through the life here, what is completely different from back home. Not to mention the atmosphere in the camp is wicked, with all the different people from around the world and the awesome crew.

Catchword: Surf and Art

Corinne: What should I say, I just pained my first surfboard and for what I know there could be a 1000 more coming…

Thanks for all who helped us once again to clean up hermosa beach and try to keep the environment beautiful.
pura vida

Some guys get bored when the waves are small and try out different things. Simon from the camp proofs that you can have always fun…

We were a little bit sad about tourists driving and parking on the beach with their cars and we decided to do something against it: DON’T DESTROY WHAT YOU CAME TO ENJOY!

The Zopilote Surf Camp is exactly that. A surf camp. I arrived not  knowing the first thing about surfing and left with the knowledge and  the passion to return to the ocean as soon as possible.  The instructors are there to answer any question  you have whether it be “Why can’t I get up?” to “what is the difference between a beach break and a point break?”.

Though the camp is geared towards surfing, chilling out and getting to know other travels, there is nothing relaxed about the professionalism that is offered by the two key hosts
of the surf camp. Bruno and Ulli make sure you feel at home and will help you with anything. I plan to return asap.

And here my video from a quad trip:

Costa Rica…and no surf… from Sophie Morawetz on Vimeo.

Sabrine from Buchs, Switzerland won the Dakine & sudden rush “fly to Costa and surf with Zopilote for free” price - what a way to come to us. She’s new to surfing, but this will change soon. She’s very happy to come over and enjoy the sea, she said in her first statement. Well, we too! Okay Sabrine, bring your bikini, and we will take care of the rest, even of your boy friend!

For our german-speaking readers, read the short interview with Sabrina (including her profile picture) here.

Win a surftrip to our camp in costa rica! The surfcompany DAKINE and the travel agency SUDDENRUSH are offering a 2 weeks long journey for two people to the winner of their campaign. Participate if you are
from switzerland and win your vacation…
http://www.dakine.ch/

Zopilote Surfcamp hat vergangene Woche einen Beach Clean up veranstalltet an dem alle unsere Gäste und einige Anwohner an der Playa Hermosa teilgenommen haben. In 4 stunden von  el rey paticio  bis playa hermosa point haben wir 29 Säcke, überwiegend Plastik, gesammelt, die das Camp dann bei der Gemeinde  entsorgen liess.

All the guests and friends from the playa Hermosa community helped to clean our beach. It took us over 4 hours to collect the garbage between el rey patricio and playa Hermosa point. We collected 29 garbage bags, mainly plastic, which was given to the municipality for dispose.

Thanks to all the friends who helped to keep our beaches clean!

Juho came from Finland to the Zopilote surf camp, and was happy to be with us: “I can not think of any better place. This has been exactly what I was looking for. Beautiful, original, quiet and still pure attitude of surfing.”

What did he enjoyed the most? “Never thought that a group of +30 years old can have so much fun out of a tattooed $2 barbie doll me and Andrea bought Niko for his 34th birthday…you probably might see a movie coming out soon! And for sure the turtle just 1 meter away while I was surfing.”

So, what’s the most difficult thing about learning to surf for you? “I am not gonna go into tricks and quick turns because I am too far away from those but hardest thing to learn was reading the ocean and finding a spot to catch a proper green wave.”

Something personal you want to add? “My vocabulary isn’t good enough to express the royal tastes of every dinner and breakfast. I recommend Zopilote surfcamp to everyone – it’s been pure awesomeness!
THANK YOU!”

After 55 kilometers and 1.500 m altitude difference, the Zopilote Adventure Race Team arrived second placed in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany. Only one team in their class (mixed) beat them, narrowly by around fifteen minutes after five and half hours of biking, trail running, orienteering, hiking, climbing, archery, raft building and rafting.

A full report is available in german at feltout.blogspot.com