Welcome to Playa Colorado!

This is our home all week for the International Surf Association's World Masters Surfing Championship.

Here, in part, thanks to the SIMA Environmental Fund, which supports our Surf Ambassadors program for ocean conservation, we're helping with event logistics and making sure the environmental impact is minimal. Working with our RENISA and our Proyecto TESON partners at Comunidad Connect and Cafe Las Flores, we're patrolling the beach all day for litter. Playa Colorado is an important nesting beach and it's turtle nesting season, so two of our star rangers are here to patrol the beach at night for turtles.

Working in the surfing community for a few years to help ensure the local surfing community upholds the international tradition of combining a love of the waves with a commitment to clean oceans, we're excited about what this event means for coastal Nicaragua.

As reported at ESPN, "surfing, like any sport, can be a powerful mechanism for change. The people of Nicaragua are hoping this is the case."

We're pleased to join ISA in working "for the conservation and improvement of coastal environments and the protecting of surfing resources worldwide."