go throught the town of Cabarete traveling east(away from puerto plata) About 5 miles out of town on the left you will see a sign with CAMINO DEL SOL. Try to find beach access anywhere withen a mile after CAMINO DEL SOL(many of the beaches are private) this mile stretch is the east cabarete beach break. by getting out of the cabarete cove you open up the swell
surf the spot early before trade winds pick up and kill it. its a choppy windy rip mess after 2. wont hold muchh more than a solid head high. FUn waist to shoulder high waves. clean fun waves. Surf it no one else does
Overview
Atmosphere
the dominicans are awesome nice people.
General
if your close by its worth going. there are better spots 1 hour east(PLAYA GRANDE) and 30 mins west(encuentro)
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Bowls
Yes. . . this spot is great!! I had get there my best bodyboarding bowls section in this country since i have been living here.Thank to the sharks and also it close out sometimes and beat you up.. the place is always empty!!
comment by el chulo, 2006-10-17 08:22:39
yeah right!!!
I was at east cabarete a year ago and worked all the way up and down that beach(with a boogie board). Whoever thinks their are any sharks their must have been tripping on somthing. The only thing you'll find in the water at cabarete is hundreds of kiteboarders, and further east along the break just a bunch of rich, fat, tourists. Bring a boogie board, or a log if you wanna surf their. My advice, rip it up at encuentro and surf it up early, don't forget to watch out for urchins.
comment by Anonymous, 2006-06-17 18:42:25
Mananero
The water is dirty. Its because dominican slumes throw pretty much anything(including tires, shoes, glass bottles, and even human wastes) into a river that flows into the ocean at La Boca. For that reason there are a lot of fish that feed there. I've seen 3 foot wide stingrays and 4 foot long, what looked like a tuna, jump out of the water in front of me. At La Boca there are a LOT of sharks because there are also a LOT of fish. Sometimes the sharks wander west to mananero. I have never heard of any shark attacks but it still makes me hold my feet up when surfing there.. Now why do I STILL surf there despite all those "bad" things? It's because if you don't get at least one barrel everytime you surf there then you must serriously suck. I surfed mananero, when some 3 1/2 footers (back) came in with wide as fuck barrels, 1 foot min. thick lips and shallow water. It can become a very hard wave to ride because it tends to close out 4 of 10 times when it's a little bigger. The take off gets pretty steep too. But since it's sand bottom you ain't got too much to worry about. This wave is my favorite wave next to the bowl section at the left of enquentro!
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comment by Pio-NF/Rep, 2008-03-16 15:38:21