Zopilote Surf Camp News

Maya and the maybe biggest wave surfed by a woman

2009-11-09T10:29:25Z

I found some interesting pics on the net about a surf close to Cape Town, South Africa. Maya Gabeira from Brazil was on her way to surf some monster-waves like the one you see on the picture (taken from her web site). Check out her site, it’s fascinating!

Our guests: Juho from Finland

2009-10-27T05:37:53Z

Juho came from Finland to the Zopilote surf camp, and was happy to be with us: “I can not think of any better place. This has been exactly what I was looking for. Beautiful, original, quiet and still pure attitude of surfing.” What did he enjoyed the most? “Never thought that a group of +30 years [...]

Community guides on Ruba

2009-10-13T14:07:19Z

Ruba is a travel review site with content from the community. Individuals can create guides and upload them, other users can read, review and rate them. A lot of text and images to go through, with information from all continents.

Kijubi: booking machine for online activities

2009-09-17T20:04:23Z

A new niche service just opened their doors for all outdoor fans: Kijubi. Search, compare and book your local outdoor experience provider. Actually, activities in some US states are bookable among many many activity types. A very new service, but seems interesting!

Check the hotel before you book: Oyster

2009-09-17T19:49:17Z

One of the many hotel review sites in the web, Oyster offers more than just five-star ratings. You get professional reviews from professional testers who are not associated with any hotel. Those testers work anonymously, so they report about about hotel conditions as they found them. The advantage of this system is that the testers [...]

Create your own short video clips with Animoto

2009-08-27T13:42:41Z

This is a very cool online service to provide digital memories of your last Costa Rica & Zopilote Surf Camp stay: Animoto. With a few short clips, a few pics and decent sound, Animoto turns your material in a superb video movie / slide show of a few minutes length. It’s for free and online. [...]

Wildlife Dictionary: Nature Find

2009-07-27T15:02:18Z

For all outdoor fans in North America, this could be a viable online resource: NWF (National Wildlife Federation) offers a nice database of national parks, nature events and other nature resources. The data can be filtered through a mask of geographical and activity-related parameters.

TripNTale: recount your travel

2009-07-13T05:46:12Z

A nice tool for travel blogging and show casing is TripNTale. I would describe it as a personal portal to all my travels in the past - including stories, fotos (of course), maps and so on. You’ll receive an unlimited storage for your material, and build up a kind of network through comments and a [...]

Zopilote Adventure Race Team happy with 2nd place in Garmisch

2009-06-22T18:33:02Z

After 55 kilometers and 1.500 m altitude difference, the Zopilote Adventure Race Team arrived second placed in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany. Only one team in their class (mixed) beat them, narrowly by around fifteen minutes after five and half hours of biking, trail running, orienteering, hiking, climbing, archery, raft building and rafting. A full report is available [...]

And a little bit of biking…

2009-06-02T04:45:17Z

Not always surfing, but this is cool as well… enjoy!