Yeah, funny. We surfed everything. 2-4' and clean reef/beach to 6-8' with 10' sets + backside dropins, over lava reef with howling offshores. Prior to the trip, I thought I would most enjoy the biggest stuff (8'+), but actually I had a lot of fun on the 4-6' sessions, and I just went NUTS on the 2-4' sessions, maybe out of sheer frustration at my lack of waveage in the overhead department, maybe because you can't help but be confident making a 4' aerial drop when only 6 hours before you managed not to get killed paddling through 8' sets (5 or 6 waves/set) over top of a reef, in some place you've never heard of, and where no one else is surfing.

I have a whole roll of pictures of the monster day at Negra. Guys came into town the next day, having heard about it in different parts of the country. Have to get them developed and scanned. You will be amazed. The level of surfing going on there was like Slater and Machado themselves were out there (slight exaggeration, but only slight). The consequences were heavy (at least one broken board and maybe 5 vicious OTF wipeouts in the hour we were there). Heavy duty stuff.

No major injuries to report here. Right shoulder a little tweaked, few reef scratches. Stolen backpack, flipflops, ASC hat (different times).

Report posted next week, pics (250 shots on film) probably the week after. 

See my long report, "THE SEARCH FOR EL MONO / A JOURNAL."