SURF

The Harmony is a stone's throw from the best break on Playa Guiones, home to the best surf in Nosara and for that matter, some of the most consistent year-round waves in the world.

Straight off the Harmony path is a beach break with lefts and rights. Warm air and offshore breezes make for great conditions. Swells vary throughout the day from waist high to double-overhead. This break works on all tides but shapes up best at high tide. Even though it's becoming a popular longboard spot, it is good for short boards and great for fun boards.

Heed the howler monkey wakeup call for a quiet, early morning session. The most popular time is sunset. No wonder. The waves get glassy late afternoon and the colors are mind expanding as the sun dips.

Nearby Surf Spots

Adventurers will have fun exploring other local surf spots: Playa Pelada for a reef break that's best with a north swell at incoming high tide, Playa Nosara for a great beach break with peaks and shallow rock reef lefts that get barrelling with a large south or southwest swell or Playa Ostional for a beach and reef break with rights and lefts that works on higher tides and south to southwest swells.

Weather & Waves

The air and water are 80ish degrees all year in Guiones, so board shorts and warm water wax are the sum requirements other than a board.

Dry Season Conditions

(mid November to mid April)

· Generally 3ft to 8ft.

· North, northwest, south, southwest swells.

· Consistent weather and temperatures of 80 to 90 degrees during day and 75ish degrees at night.

· Sunrise - 10:30am / 11:00am offshore wind, and then it will lay down for about an hour.

· 12:00pm - 3:00pm onshore wind that generally does not blow hard enough to cause white caps

· 4:00pm it glasses off.

· It's the tropics so weather can change fast.

Wet Season Conditions

(late April to early November)

· Less predictable weather, larger swells, significantly less surfers.

· May and June it may rain in the afternoons and at night.

· July can produce the Indian Summer and it may not rain at all.

· August can go pretty much like July.

Surf Board Rentals

The small planes that fly to the local cow field which serves as an air strip do not allow long boards, and getting a short board to Nosara doesn't guarantee space for it on your return flight. Surf rentals near the hotel abound and generally range from $15 - $25 per day for short and long. No need to reserve ahead.

Tide Chart

March 2008

Day	High	Low	High	Low	High
Sat 01		02:59 AM / 2.01 ft	09:25 AM / 6.08 ft	03:09 PM / 2.60 ft	09:44 PM / 6.70 ft
Sun 02		04:07 AM / 2.19 ft	10:38 AM / 6.03 ft	04:24 PM / 2.71 ft	10:56 PM / 6.67 ft
Mon 03		05:18 AM / 2.07 ft	11:47 AM / 6.32 ft	05:38 PM / 2.46 ft
Tue 04	12:02 AM / 6.93 ft	06:19 AM / 1.69 ft	12:43 PM / 6.86 ft	06:40 PM / 1.92 ft
Wed 05	12:57 AM / 7.40 ft	07:09 AM / 1.17 ft	01:29 PM / 7.54 ft	07:30 PM / 1.23 ft
Thu 06	01:44 AM / 7.94 ft	07:52 AM / 0.59 ft	02:10 PM / 8.26 ft	08:14 PM / 0.51 ft
Fri 07	02:27 AM / 8.46 ft	08:32 AM / 0.03 ft	02:49 PM / 8.94 ft	08:55 PM / -0.14 ft
Sat 08	03:08 AM / 8.90 ft	09:10 AM / -0.43 ft	03:28 PM / 9.51 ft	09:36 PM / -0.65 ft
Sun 09	03:48 AM / 9.18 ft	09:49 AM / -0.75 ft	04:07 PM / 9.89 ft	10:17 PM / -0.95 ft
Mon 10	04:29 AM / 9.28 ft	10:29 AM / -0.86 ft	04:48 PM / 10.02 ft	10:59 PM / -0.99 ft
Tue 11	05:11 AM / 9.15 ft	11:11 AM / -0.73 ft	05:30 PM / 9.88 ft	11:43 PM / -0.79 ft
Wed 12	05:56 AM / 8.82 ft	11:55 AM / -0.38 ft	06:16 PM / 9.49 ft
Thu 13		12:30 AM / -0.36 ft	06:45 AM / 8.33 ft	12:44 PM / 0.16 ft	07:07 PM / 8.91 ft
Fri 14		01:23 AM / 0.21 ft	07:41 AM / 7.76 ft	01:39 PM / 0.80 ft	08:06 PM / 8.25 ft
Sat 15		02:24 AM / 0.79 ft	08:47 AM / 7.27 ft	02:46 PM / 1.39 ft	09:16 PM / 7.69 ft
Sun 16		03:36 AM / 1.20 ft	10:04 AM / 7.05 ft	04:07 PM / 1.71 ft	10:34 PM / 7.42 ft
Mon 17		04:55 AM / 1.30 ft	11:22 AM / 7.21 ft	05:29 PM / 1.61 ft	11:49 PM / 7.50 ft
Tue 18		06:07 AM / 1.07 ft	12:29 PM / 7.65 ft	06:40 PM / 1.21 ft
Wed 19	12:53 AM / 7.80 ft	07:06 AM / 0.70 ft	01:24 PM / 8.17 ft	07:35 PM / 0.72 ft
Thu 20	01:45 AM / 8.14 ft	07:54 AM / 0.34 ft	02:11 PM / 8.65 ft	08:22 PM / 0.29 ft
Fri 21	02:31 AM / 8.43 ft	08:36 AM / 0.06 ft	02:52 PM / 8.99 ft	09:03 PM / -0.03 ft
Sat 22	03:11 AM / 8.60 ft	09:14 AM / -0.08 ft	03:30 PM / 9.18 ft	09:40 PM / -0.20 ft
Sun 23	03:50 AM / 8.63 ft	09:49 AM / -0.08 ft	04:06 PM / 9.20 ft	10:15 PM / -0.22 ft
Mon 24	04:26 AM / 8.51 ft	10:24 AM / 0.07 ft	04:40 PM / 9.06 ft	10:50 PM / -0.09 ft
Tue 25	05:02 AM / 8.26 ft	10:57 AM / 0.36 ft	05:15 PM / 8.77 ft	11:25 PM / 0.17 ft
Wed 26	05:39 AM / 7.90 ft	11:32 AM / 0.75 ft	05:51 PM / 8.37 ft
Thu 27		12:02 AM / 0.54 ft	06:17 AM / 7.45 ft	12:09 PM / 1.21 ft	06:28 PM / 7.89 ft
Fri 28		12:41 AM / 0.98 ft	06:59 AM / 6.98 ft	12:49 PM / 1.70 ft	07:10 PM / 7.39 ft
Sat 29		01:26 AM / 1.43 ft	07:48 AM / 6.56 ft	01:37 PM / 2.14 ft	08:01 PM / 6.92 ft
Sun 30		02:18 AM / 1.81 ft	08:47 AM / 6.29 ft	02:37 PM / 2.45 ft	09:04 PM / 6.60 ft
Mon 31		03:21 AM / 2.04 ft	09:54 AM / 6.27 ft	03:48 PM / 2.50 ft	10:15 PM / 6.54 ft
SUNRISE IS AT 5:45			SUNSET IS AT 5:50

 

Green Your Surfing!

For green living enthusiasts, surfing is the ultimate sport: it allows you to immerse yourself completely in nature in a low-impact, environmentally sensitive way. Whether surfing the warm waters of Playa Guiones or riding your favorite waves back home, keep the following tips in mind to assure that our oceans and planet remain clean, and surf-able, for years to come:

* Respect the beach!

* Look into green transportation when traveling to your favorite surf spots:

 

* Retrofit your vehicle to run on Biodiesel or used cooking oil.

* Get Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs for your home/office.

* Get greener Biofoam for your next surfboard.

To learn how to keep our oceans healthy and beautiful please visit www.surfrider.org or www.wetsand.com for green surf products and more.

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