Pascuales Surf Guide

Pascuales Surf Guide

Pascuales is Colima's answer to Oaxaca's famous Puerto Escondido -- thumping, thick, fast beachbreak barrels with enough power to snap a gun and dent the biggest ego. Pound-for-pound, Pascuales is just as heavy as Puerto and offers up equally giant and terrifying, mutant A-frames. If you want to surf Pascuales at its most pristine, you'll have to be an early bird, as almost every day will see the wind clock around to onshore around 11am. After that the lineup becomes an unruly mess, unless it is quite small -- at which point the sloppy ramps are an absolute blast. Because the rivermouth just to the north replenishes the sandbars regularly, and because the offshore bathymetry is a magnet for swell, you're guaranteed rideable waves every day throughout the spring and summer. When it's pumping, the current is treacherous and the poundings as brutal as they get, so if you're not 100 percent comfortable with such conditions, Pascuales will not be your cup of tea.