Mexico

Playa Zipolite

Playa Zipolite is a beach community located in San Pedro Pochutla municipality on the southern coast of Oaxaca state in Mexico. It is located between Huatulco and Puerto Escondido
Zipolite is best known as being one of Mexico’s very few nude beaches and for retaining much of the hippie culture that made it notable in the 1960s and 1970s.
Lots of great waves, lots of nude gay surfers, very close to famous Puerto Escondido!

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K38 Baja

K-38 used to be one of the dusty crown jewels of Northern Baja, attracting a steady stream of California surfers, gay and straight, through the ’50s and ’60s longboard era due to its consistency, ease-of-access and well-shaped walls and lax enforcement of laws. As development moved south of Rosarito, a condo highrise and health retreat took care of the ease of access part — now, rather than parking on the low cliffs overlooking the break like it used to be, everyone is forced to find parking elsewhere. It’s no longer an epicenter, really — though the quality and consistency hasn’t gone anywhere. On lined-up south swells, K-38 is a bowly and tapered right point/reefbreak, allowing for numerous schwacks and the occasional tube through the inside; as the swell gets more north, the wave tends too spill wide and mushy — though still plenty fun. Due to an underwater canyon and its south-facing direction, short-period northwest windswells don’t make it into K-38 like they do at some of the other beachbreaks in the area.