Today ( Friday 12/4) Santa Barbara and Ventura see building swell… As of  2 pm a few lines are wrapping into Rincon with most of the swell hitting Ventura. C-street is about chest high with light to moderate side to onshore winds. SB west channel bouy is 7 feet at 16 seconds right now. The swell is a bit north with an angle of about 305 degrees.  Look for building swell into the weekend peaking on Saturday. Saturday Morning will have a 6.5′ high tide at about 10:45AM so lower tide spots could be slow with the deep tide.  Water temps in the region are about 60 degrees.

As the weather begins to deteriorate by late weekend and into next week, we could see some 280 degree west swell at least head high and potentially larger surf.  However it looks like rains could accompany this swell along with bad weather.  

Hace un par de fines de semana estuve de visita por Vitoria y, como esta vez me fui cámara en mano, me traje unas cuantas fotos. Todas en blanco y negro, eso sí, que llovió hasta aburrir y salieron feunas. Ésta es de un rinconcito que hay en la parte vieja durante un momento que dejó de llover .

IMOSWISS estará en la próxima Feria de Muestras del Rincón de la Victoria, los próximos 7 y 8 de noviembre de 2009.

El domingo a las 13′00 sorteará un Jamón Serrano entre todos los asistentes que hayan rellenado previamente una solicitud en su stand.

Diseñado por mediomelón para IMOSWISS e impreso en Imprenta Rápida Rincón.

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Las buenas noticias siempre nos hacen sentir bien.

La comunidad realizó la acción civil luego que el Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico emitiera una sentencia de forma unánime el pasado 18 de septiembre en la que ordenó la apertura del camino a la playa. Este tribunal reconoció que la comunidad tiene derecho al uso y disfrute de la misma. La playa estaba restringida por obstáculos colocados por el Sr. Dennis Ritch, dueño de Pool’s Bar de Rincón, quien alega tener derecho exclusivo de acceso y disfrute de esta zona. La situación se agravó cuando el Sr. Ritch colocó más obstáculos luego de la orden emitida por el Tribunal, en pleno desafío a la ley y sin tomar en cuenta los efectos negativos para muchas familias del área.

“Las playas y los caminos que conducen a éstas son públicos. Todas las personas tienen el derecho de participar de este recurso natural. Las personas deben estar alertas de las diversas formas de privatización para actuar conforme al bienestar común”, indicó Carlos Ramírez Sánchez, líder comunitario, uno de los portavoces de Raíces Nativas y demandante en el caso legal. “Estamos muy complacidos porque el Tribunal Supremo nos dio la razón de que el camino y playa son de acceso público y porque el Tribunal Apelativo en una decisión anterior reconoció el área como zona marítimo terrestre”, señaló Luis Miranda,  líder comunitario y también demandante.

Durante los últimos seis años la playa estuvo cerrada, igual periodo de lucha de la comunidad quien demandó en los tribunales el libre acceso a la playa y la remoción inmediata de obstáculos en ésta. La falta de acceso a la zona costera imposibilitaba que los pescadores realizaran su trabajo y lograran tener un medio de subsistencia. De igual forma, impedía que las personas pudieran disfrutar de la playa para caminatas, bicicletadas, corridas de caballo; así como que sirviera de camino para llegar hasta el pueblo. Otros de los efectos negativos que tuvo cerrar la zona era que personas inescrupulosas arrojaban basura en el lugar.

Entre las organizaciones ambientalistas que apoyaron la manifestación se encontraban: Amigos del M.A.R., Coalición Playa para Todos, MAC y Mayaguezanos por la Salud y el Ambiente. Además, participó un grupo de “surfers” de la comunidad, profesores y estudiantes del Departamento de Biología de UPR del Recinto de Mayaguez, así como la unidad de Periodismo con Ciencia del Programa Sea Grant de este Recinto, quién ha documentado la situación del municipio de Rincón.

De otra parte, la policía de tránsito y la unidad de operaciones tácticas quienes se personaron en el lugar, no intervinieron con los manifestantes, puesto que estos mostraron una sentencia que ordena el libre acceso a la zona. No obstante, la policía tomó querellas contra Sr. Ritch por alegadamente arrojar piedras a los manifestantes.

La Coalición Playa Para Todos entiende que esta sentencia del Tribunal Supremo protege el derecho de los ciudadanos del libre acceso al mar independientemente que estos sean  o no propietarios del camino de acceso.  Consideramos que esta opinión puede ser una gran herramienta legal para remover existentes y/o futuros obstáculos en los accesos la playa.

Los manifestantes que lamentaron la actitud de Surfrider Fundation de oponerce a reabrir el acceso del camino playero. Refiriendose a un email del 12 de octubre donde la Fundacion SurfRider expreso defender el cierre del acceso a este camino por entender que el Sr. Dennis Ricth habia comprado este y que en el area solo hay rocas por lo que no hay accesos o escaleras a niguna playa.

El grupo comuesto de surfer, pescadores y residentes de la comunidad expresaron su molestia con Surfrider por favorecer el cierre.  Desmintieron a Surfriderse al señalar que el area cuenta con una bella playa la cual se observar claramente en los videos y fotos la de playa arenosa llamada 7 barrazaso con su escalera y con un camino paralelo paisajista dentro de la Zona Maritimo Terreste o almenos dentro del retiro de las servidumbres publicas requeridas por ley.

Como dice:

Tumba el Portón tumba el Portón, Tumba el Portón O te lo vamos a Tumbar

Eso es mi gente tenemos que hacer el trabajo que el gobierno no hace.

Gracias a Todos en nombre de la gente conciente de este pais.

Hace un par de días que arribé a mis primeros 23 años de edad. Para algunos, esta cifra representa madurez emocional, citas, independencia, etcétera; a mi parecer es solo un número que indica cuantas veces le hemos dado vuelta al sol.

Unos cuantos días antes, una amiga que no supera mi edad, también estuvo en ese día que un par de décadas más adelante, será como un martirio ir contando la edad en dos cifras iniciando con el “3″ y luego el “4″. Para ese entonces, la madurez ya habrá llegado para muchos.

Entonces llego a un punto en el que debo tomar una decisión importante: dejaré que la edad me embargue y me haga sentir demasiado viejo o puedo sobreponerme a la depresión que muchos ya muestran a esta edad y seguir adelante disfrutando de cada día como fuera una aventura.

Ayer decidí hacer de los siguientes 365 días, una aventura.

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Here is a clip with Kelly Slater, Yadin Nicol + some of the local boys ripping at Rincon from seasons past. With NW swells beginning to march down the coast of California, we are starting to see waves at Rincon and of course with the usual crowds of 5 guys to a wave sometimes… The good thing is that the water quality has cleared up a bit since the rain last week. Looks like more surf on the way with a moderate El Nino winter weather pattern prediction. Seems like the summer flatness has passed as we are moving onward into Fall and anticipating the winter months to get our fill of waves. Be prepared for the surf this season and make sure you have a few solid sets of fins…To purchase fins for your shortboard or longboard go to true ames online store.

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MONTES DE TOLEDO PARQUE NATURAL

El día 5 de octubre inauguramos el rincón del pasillo del curso 2009 – 2010. Este año trae una novedad: puntuaremos los libros que hemos leído para encontrar entre todos nuestros 30 favoritos. Como otras veces, el tema está relacionado con lo que trabajamos en los proyectos, por tanto este mes nos toca EL CUERPO HUMANO.  También hemos aprendido que “el libro del rincón va y viene todos los días en el maletín”.

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So, it turns out completing 3 or 4 things in a part of Puerto Rico that goes to bed at 8:30 at night is a little difficult. I did manage, quite ungracefully to accomplish standing on a surfboard.

Early Wednesday morning, well early for a vacation. I got up and headed over to Domes’ Beach, in Rincon, Puerto Rico. The beach is called Domes’ because way back when, the US built a nuclear plant right at the beach and it’s a gigantic Dome. Lucky for everyone, the plant never went operational. So, now all you have is a museum and an easily recognizable point of reference.

The actual geographical location of the beach, right on the point of the Rincon peninsula makes this the beach of choice when it comes to surfing on off days, when the waves are unsuitable everywhere else. To me they looked to be about 2 – 4 feet high, most likely I’m exaggerating by 4 feet.

There were a couple of other surfers out when I first got to the beach, I sat on the coral beach studying their technique, while Kit went ape-shit crazy finding tons of seashells. The two surfers caught the waves like as if they were fishes. Gracefully getting off the board when the waves were done with them. Soooooo Cool. Or gnarly. Whichever adjective you prefer.

My instructor for the day was Melissa Taylor with Puntas Surf School. She came highly recommended from other surfers. And in a place where 90% of people are surfers, and they say that she is one of the best instructors out there, you can believe them. She can also hold her liquor very well, as I learned from the night before when Kit and I meet her at a local bar. She was pretty recognizable since there aren’t many blond hair Puerto Rican women around. I can also recommend the bar where we met, The Spot. I believe every Tuesday night they play bingo to benefit the Youths of PR. A guy from Canada moved to Rincon, and was disappointed with the amount of hockey not being played on the island. So he started writing grants and raised as much money as he could to get the kids off the streets and onto the hockey rink, with his efforts three were built on the island for just that purpose.

Back to the surfing. We meet up on the beach and made sure we weren’t too hung over to accomplish the task of getting me not to slam my head into the surfboard. We were a go. Melissa asked if i had changed my mind after seeing some of the waves, I looked out over the beach again, the waves were now tsunami size, give or take 2 – 60 ft of exaggeration. I got butterflies in my stomach but there was no way I was backing out now.

She started the lessons on the beach laying on the surfboard. She chuckled when I made “Forgetting Sarah Marshal” references. “Do less?” “No, too much, do less.” We determined that I wasn’t goofy footed, and we headed out to the water.

For those who have never laid on top of a surfboard in the water, it’s actually a lot harder than I thought. Wobbling on top, I missed the rock solid stability of the beach. In my head I compared it to riding a mechanical bull, only I wasn’t drunk… anymore. Mel, paddled by me as if she was a penguin, sliding across a glacier. What a bitch! At least make it look a little harder! I was laying there like a weeble wabble. She assured me that I will find my balance in about 10 minutes. I paddled on weary of her advice.

We made it out past the breakers, or the line-up area and she continued with the lesson. First task, sit on the surfboard. She sat up and explained to me where I should be planting my butt. I sat up and immediately was removed from my surfboard. First injury of the day, as soon as I fell off the board, I could feel the coral reef under my feet, as I struggled to get my over-weight body on top again, I scraped the top of my foot along a rock or hard coral or shark, I couldn’t really tell, but I knew that once I pulled my foot out of the water I had a couple of lacerations. I sucked it up, layed back on top and tried to sit again. I found my middle way, and this time, instead of immediately falling off, I rocked for about 10 seconds and fell off again.

This isn’t going as well as I planned. I figured I would be like the cast of the 60’s surf movies within about 10 minutes of getting out on the water. Walking like Jesus all over the water. Nope, not me. I couldn’t sit, let alone stand yet. Baby steps, baby steps, was my mantra on the water. Mel told me we can work on sitting later, lets catch a wave. OK, so much for baby steps, I’m going from a crawling to running.

The first set appeared on the horizon. Mel asked if I was ready. “As ready as I’m ever going to be.” Good she replied and told me to paddle. When the wave came she gave my board a shove and I was off.

I felt the board gain speed and I could see some white water passing by me, I paddled harder. ” YOU GOT IT!” Mel screamed. Quick flashback to the lessons on the beach, First step, arch your back, Check. Second step… FUCK! what’s the second step? How could I have forgotten the seconded step already, oh wait it doesn’t matter any more I’m swimming.

I recovered my board and paddled back to the staging area, where Mel reminded me that I needed to “Pop up.” I needed to, “Do less.” The next wave came and I again paddled like hell to catch it. When I heard the, “You got it!” I popped up. Well, I more or less crouched on the surfboard, my arms glued onto the sides. Swimming again.

After  more instruction waiting for the next set, I felt pumped. I was going to get this. The shove, the yelling, the white water… BAM I was up! I could feel the board rocking violently side to side as I rode the break of the wave for what seemed like an eternity. In all reality it was about 3 or 4 seconds, but it was enough. After I recovered from my wicked gymnastic inspired fall, a smile grew on my face as big as The Jokers. That was awesome. Not graceful or even good looking, but nonetheless, awesome. I wanted more waves.

The lessons went on like that for about another 45 minutes, about the time when my arms decided not to work anymore. Paddling is tough work. I could feel the burn and it was burning like hell. Mel tried to soothe my ego and told me that most people can’t do 2 hours of surf lessons their first time. I lasted an hour and a half, A tad above average, or at least thats what I like to think.

I can say now with certainty, that I will absolutely be surfing again. I am determined to stand and stay on a surfboard! Anybody going to PR, I highly recommend using Puntas Surf school, and Melissa as your instructor. She was a great teacher and even better drinking partner.

P.S. Kit actually didn’t get a picture of me standing up. But, she can attest to me doing it… So, Yeah item is completed.