Christmas Time

Dec 22, 2013 Quito to Mompiche, Ecuador. 350km.
Pulled out the next morning (Just Trevor and Kyle as Zach wanted to find the equator monument) and drove some incredible roads down to the coast where we ended up in Mompiche.

We had breakfast at a little local restaurant that was quite full and when we got up to leave a middle aged woman timidly asked for a picture which we smilingly agreed to. As we posed for the photo the entire restaurant started scrambling for cameras and mobbed us wanting pictures.

Fresh crab soup for lunch

Mompiche is small fishing village with a few hotels and hostels and a bunch of local restaurants.  Mompiche offers one of the biggest left point breaks in South America (for surfing) which attracts surfers from all over.  We were still a little early in the season so there wasn't much for English speaking tourists.

 People are always requesting photos, we have started giving our camera to them as well. 

One of the buildings in our complex.  The thatched roofs and lack of screens made for mosquito filled nights.

 

Unfortunately, there wasn't much surf 
We managed to get a little surfing in on the small waves.   It was great for Kyle as it was basically his first time surfing.

Dec 23, 2013
Zach joined us in Mompiche
More surfing and riding the bikes on the beach.

Dec 24, 2013
AJ joined us in Mompiche.  We went surfing some more.

We had Christmas Eve dinner at a small restaurant owned by an Italian man.  Legit burgers!

Dec 25, 2013 Christmas Day Mompiche to Canoa, Ecuador 200km.
We both called home, it was great to talk to our families.  Since the surf wasn't great we decided to head south down the road to another beach, Canoa.  This town was much larger and more developed. 

Huge beach

Surf reports list tomorrow at 4 stars so we rented some boards and plan on going out first thing tomorrow morning.