Enjoy your surfing with amandosurcamp
At the surfcamp algarve we have barbecue night and pizza night several times per week, food keeps coming all the time as well as drinks. It is good fun after a full surfing day, and a good occasion for socializing with your surf-buddies, your surf instructors and the rest of the amado surfcamp staff. If you want to sleep early you don’t need to worry. Noise usually stops at 11 pm. Those who want to keep on partying usually go to Carrapateira or to Sagres with the surfcamp vans.
The surf boards that we use for the lessons are made of foam, and the fins are flexible. This is to maximize the safety of all our beginner clients. When you start surfing lessons you are new to the equipment. It is for this reason that is important that the surf boards are not hard. In case your board hits you, or maybe another surf-buddy’s. For us safety is the most important thing, more important that your progress.
So what is the equipment that you need to surf ? Basically you need three things. You need a surf board, you need a leash and you need a wetsuit.
The surf board doesn’t need explanation. The leash is that elastic cable that is attached on one end to the board and on the other end to one of your ankles. The mission of the leash is that you don’t lose the board if you fall or if a wave separates it from you. It is a very important piece of equipment that prevents boards from hitting other surfers, and keeps the board at hand all times. It is more safe that you keep the board, instead of having to swim out of the water by yourself. It is much easier to paddle on your board to get out of the water. The wetsuit is very important to keep you warm in the water, so that you don’t feel cold. You have to be comfortable in the water, feeling cold is no good, you don’t relax, and you can get hypothermia, the more so, the colder the water is. There are different kinds of wetsuit, but the most common are the 3/2 and the 4/3. Where we are in the west Algarve, 3/2 is ok from March to October, but from November to February it is better to surf with a 4/3 wetsuit. You will feel much warmer in those cold months the temperature of the water can fall to 15 degrees in December and/or January, although sometimes is warmer. This is much warmer than the Mediterranean in winter, people don’t realize that. So it is not so cold after all. With sunny days it can be very nice surfing in wintertime
The food in Carrapateira and Surfcamp Sagres is great. Fish is fished by the fishermen, I know it sounds obvious but it isn’t obvious at all in the current times. What I mean is that food is so good in part because things are done in a traditional way over here. There are perceves, kind of finger shaped sea food that live on the rocks in the ocean cliffs. It is very dangerous to fish them, the fishermen that do it risk their lives to bring them to your table, but they are such a delicious food! Perceves can only be fished some times depending of the tides and the swell. The sea cannot be too rough, otherwise they are totally off-limits.
For more information about us, please visit our website http://www.amadosurfcamp.com/.