December opens the December-to-March window when the Chocó gets marginally less rain, and the point of it is what comes at the end. Pico de Loro needs settled air rather than swell, so each week of steadier weather from here improves the reef's chances until they peak in March at sixteen clean days out of thirty.
December itself is not there yet. The wind is still unreliable, the southern swell is five months away and the river point will not break, so what is on offer is a reef that is almost always big enough and often unusable, on a coast where you cannot simply drive somewhere else and look.
That is the shape of the whole Chocó proposition, and it is worth ending the year on. Empty water, a serious reef, a jungle almost nobody has surfed, and a bill paid in access, rain and the absence of a soft option.
