Windsurf? I'm a long way from an ocean...

[BigDaddy]

Nice BroMo... did you try it?

That place is amazing. Our vid from 2004 Been back a couple times since and could easily see having a condo there.

[Bromontana]

Nice work. I did a lesson with a practice kite to learn how to control a kite, then went through setup/breakdown and release. Didn't budget the $500+ for a full lesson program so no days on water.

It's a cool place for sure, I really liked the Samana peninsula. Missed the whales by a few weeks

[iceman]

I liked windsurfing a lot when I sucked and just putted around on the big board but then I got pretty good and it started to suck. After getting body-slammed a few times and ending up upside down underwater under the sail still hooked in I started to develop a serious fear of drowning while windsurfing.

Plus at the place i usually went people would wait all day for the wind to come up and it often wouldn't. It was like sitting in a parking lot at a mountain with no snow on it at all and hoping it would suddenly dump two feet of pow.

So between abject fear and terminal boredom I bagged it and sold my gear.

[Bromontana]

Where were you in DR? I spent most of the time travelling to the different beaches just to see the country. I heard some negative talk about cabarete, but it's hard to talk down to a place that has hundreds of kites out a few times a week. Also - you kiteboard or just windsurf? Seems like windsurfing is way less popular these days, though I can only guess it's because of an easier learning curve?

[BigDaddy]

Never kited, but am seriously thinking about it. Cabarete's always been good to us, so we just hang here. We've toured a few inland river canyons, but we love hanging here, surfing all day and then some interesting bars at night. There was talk of doing this sail/kayak trip around the island, but it's hard to beat having everything at your door for little money.