WARNING !!
This beach is NOT for beginner surfers or beginner surf schools, in my opinion.
I was there a few years ago with a group from Santa Cruz, Ca. and saw a young healthy man SHATTER HIS ANKLE!! on the MOSTLY CONTINUOUS BOULDERS UNDER WATER!!, NOT SAND, by amateurishly steeping off his board, instead of butt and back flopping as instructed; Easy and common mistake for a beginner,,,on a proper, safer sandy bottom shore and beach. He was placed on the steep beach, head uphill,,, and almost went into SHOCK with the EMT there.
Then he was placed flat, and then on a surfboard, and into a pickup for the long long painful drive back to San Diego and a good hospital. This was not a simple easy one bone break, but a major surgery event in a third world country.
WARNING: THIS IS NO BEACH FOR BEGINNER SURFERS !!
If you must , there is a cheap ok hotel at the N. end, a long walk or cheap bribe motorbike ride with one of the many poor kids (and thieves) from town. It is very hot mid-summer days,,, and foggy freezing cold at night. If you sleep on the beach in a tent and sleeping bag, you will suffer.
