After finally arriving here I decided that Playa Venao is a bit too cool for school. Chilled out to the extreeem - free camping (which I opted for after seeing both a bat and a huge crab within 10 seconds of checking out the local cabina), lots of surfers, pretty much only one building (which is mostly only a roof) and, of course, a beautiful beach. But lets go back to the surfers - why do they have to be such unfriendly, up-their-own-culo posers? (Excluding, of course, all the surfers I know, and yes, I see the irony). Every time I tried to say hola to people (normally easy elsewhere) they didn´t even look at me! So it was totally full of these people and then (on the Sunday), after I sat on the beach and listened to a couple of albums, I turned round and they had all gone! I don´t know if they got my unfriendly, up-my-own-culo vibes, but suddenly the whole place was empty save me and an Israeli guy.
So it was that for my final surf of the trip I had one of the best surfing beaches in Panama (almost) all to myself - absolutely amazing, as only that morning I had been lamenting how Playa Venao suffers from the same annoyance as Pavones - too many surfers.
