May is where the season is properly on. The Southern Hemisphere storms are producing and the swell reaches the Tola coast as four to eight foot faces, consistently rather than in pulses. The reefs at Popoyo, Colorados and Playgrounds are all working, and the outer reef at Popoyo is doing what it is famous for.
The lake wind is the reason this reads better than the same swell would elsewhere. Groundswell of that size on a coast that is offshore most of the time is an unusual combination, and it is the whole argument for Nicaragua over its neighbours. The rain has started and it comes in the afternoon. The water is at 29°C, the year's warmest.
