Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It pains me to write this but Pavones is currently being demolished against the will of the locals to make way for ...

When South Lake Tahoe author Jeremy Evans visited Pavones, a Costa Rican town known for surfing and fishing, what he found was a modern David and Goliath story. In 2004, a businessman with financial ...

A group of missionaries who surf have expanded to a remote part of Costa Rica, where people come from afar looking for the “perfect wave.” And maybe a little Jesus? A surfer riding a wave during a ...

PAVONES, Costa Rica — Chandler Brownlee stood atop a cluster of rocks protruding from a secluded stretch of Costa Rican beach, Bible in hand, gazing at one of the world’s most coveted surfing waves.