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Best Surf Spots for Beginners in Madeira Island – Porto da Cruz

Porto da Cruz, its a small village located in the northeast of the island of Madeira. It is strongly dominated by an extensive and beautiful classified Laurissilva forest, a natural heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.

It is probably the best surf spot for beginners and intermediates levels to surf in Madeira Island and the one that breaks more regulary

Salty  – Madeira Water Activities  owns a warehouse with a big range of boards from beginners  till pros. We provide surf classes everyday and all year round, from group classes till private classes.  If you already know how to surf, we also have for sure the perfect board for you. For more info click here.

 Surf spots:

Alagoa Beach

Beach with a mixed of rocks sand bottom (mostly sand), it has a split break with righ and left.. It works with waves from 0.5 to 1.5 meters, wave for beginners and intermediate.

Tide - low to half tide
Swell - north / northwest
Wind - South
Level of difficulty - 3/10
Max. wave - up to 1.5 meters

Note: it has a corrent on the left of the beach and the botton is a mixed with rocks and sand.

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Maiata Beach

Beach with a mixed of rocks sand bottom (mostly sand), it has 2 breaks with with right and left, it works with waves from 0.5 to 1.5 meters, wave for beginners and intermediates.

Tide - low to half tide
Swell - north / northwest
Wind - South
Level of difficulty - 4/10
Max. wave - up to 1.5 meters

Note: it has some corrents that often change with the sandbars and the bottom is a mixed with rocks and sand.

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Beginners Surf Lessons in Madeira Island

Salty – Madeira Water Activities is a surf school that works in Madeira Island. We work all over the Island so we can find the best surf spots for your surfing level.

Beginners surf lessons can be done in a few surf spots all over Madeira Island. There are 4 beginners surf spots that we use for our surf lessons.

In all the beginners surf spots you will find black sand. The sand is black because it is from volcanic origin Island.

The beginners surf spots in Madeira Island are located in: Porto da Cruz, Machico or Seixal.

Porto da Cruz:

– Alagoa beach – Small beach with a mix between small rocks and dark sand but some times we have a full sandy beach.

– Maiata beach – This is the one of the biggest beach with sand in our Island. Some time it get’s also a mix between rocks and sand.

Machico:

– There is a sand mixed with some rocsk in Machico perfect to have beginners surf lesson but these wave works with a south swell and just works time to time.

Seixal:

– Just by the harbour in Seixal we have a sand beach perfect to go for a first surf lesson on the north coast of Madeira

All these waves are the only places that are suitable for a beginners surf lessons  in Madeira Island. Depending on the weather and swell (waves) forecast we move from one to other spot so we can get you to the better one on your surf lesson with us.

Our beginners surf lessons are more then only surfing. The important part for us is that you can enjoy your surf session and know a little bit more abou our culture.

Keep it Salty! Salty – Madeira Water Activities.

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The Magic of Madeira

An article in Endless Vacation Magazine by Christine Ajudua

Recently we came on an article in the Endless Vacation Magazine made by Christine Ajudua. It’s an honor to be a part of it  even more when the title is “The Magic of Madeira”.

“Not far away is Porto da Cruz, a tiny cobblestoned village whose black-sand Praia da Lagoa is known for its surf breaks. You can learn how to hang ten with Salty (Rua da Praia; 011-351-967-107-792; lessons, from $53), a just-launched water-sports school from seven-time Madeira surfing champion Belmiro Mendes; he’s even taught his pet dogs to ride the waves. And if it’s not too windy, consider a walk along the barren basalt cliffs to Ponta de São Lourenço, Madeira’s dramatic easternmost tip, a nature reserve where you can see rare monk seals and take in clear views of Porto Santo, Madeira’s little sister, to the northeast.” – Christine Ajudua in Endless Vacation Magazine. (you can look at the hole article by click in here)

Have a look in Salty website for more info about your next adventure in Madeira Island and follow us in Instagram or in Facebook!

Keep it Salty!

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Salty Madeira: Surf trip to Indonesia

Surf  trip to Indonesia…

Enjoy some pictures 😉

What to say about the Indonesia surf trip?

I think it all started with a little project call Salty – Madeira Water Activities, a dream of passing to others the joy and the impact that the ocean had in all my life.

Thanks to Salty and everyone that join our Surf, SUP and Bodyboard school… with all of you i could  manage to travel on my dream trip to Indonesia!

“It all started with long hours in airoports and planes, Emirates make it feel confortable and fast! Arrived to Jakarta direct to the hotel and I had my very first Bintang with my friend João Mealha.

Next day Padang were we meet the hole crew and the captain Gonçalo Ruivo, i was pumped to start the action on the next day on board of Melaleuca.

It was 11 days surfing here and there all over the dream land Mentawai, surfed lot of waves during the boat trip but one just got to the hole crew as the best of it. We surfed Greenbush all by ourselves. Two hours of overhead waves and good vibes made it the surf of the trip!

Second round was on Lancers Right for 8 days in a 10 steps walk to the water and a 2 minutes paddle to the peak. It was magic!

Surfed HT’S everyday and even got a walk across the rain forest to King Fisher camp on Lancer’s left for a good surf session with Aiken aka Supersonic and Couto. The road there was something out of a Nathional Geografic mag, the local comunity that we met along the road were so simple and beautiful that i felt at home!

On the end 3.30h of boat to catch the fast ferry on another 3h back to Padang. Next day a 37 h trip back to Madeira Island.

It was an amazing trip, surf everyday and made new friends. Gonçalo “the Captain”; João Mealha “Borboleta”; Miguel Fortes; Filipe; Angelo “Supersonic”; Henrique “pescador”; Mouzinho “the coutch”; João Mendonça “boquinha de ouro”; Tomás Couto; Manu “zuca”. Thanks you guys for all, the time and the knowledge that you shared with me!

Special thanks to my girlfriend that make it all possible everyday!

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Surf in Madeira Island

… what a day of surfing. Before I speak of this day, I must perhaps say how my previous day ended. Good waves in a memorable afternoon. Two hours of good surf in good company, a poncha to finish the day with the sun going down and a forecast of good waves for the next day.

Morning Surfing

I woke up at 06:30 in the morning to go surfing again to the same spot that i had surfed the day before. Full of will and anxiety to get there and know the true verdict of the conditions of the waves. With the sun still to rise  and conditions not perfect but more than acceptable for a good session of surf, light wind and waves of 1.5m. 4 people inside the water and good barrels! It was a good 2.30 hours of surf. The tide was changing and i changed also the surf spot. The north coast of the island was going to be more or less with the same conditions but instead of right waves to surf i surfed some nice lefts. Sun, good waves and lots of fun on the mix for the 3 hours surfing.

Madeira Island has the conditions to provide good experiences for all levels of surf, from the beginners to the pros. It is very important to surf together and that is where Salty comes in, we have classes for beginners to surf guide for pros. If you want to surf in Madeira Island and have fun book your surfing experience with Salty – Madeira Water Activities.

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Madeira is Gold

Congratulations Madeira Island! We are Gold.

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Stand up Paddle in Madeira Island

These are some of the pictures from the landscape that you can see from the sea if you go on a Stand Up Paddle tour with us! This are from Ponta do Sol village to Praia dos Anjos and the way back.

There are so many more beautiful landscapes, so book your tour and get ready to get Salty!

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Try it yourself

These are the reasons why we work the way we do! Small groups (max. 6pax) that permits us to give you more attention and a quality service.

Here are some reviews: 

See it for your self at:

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Best Friends

Our mascots – Chico and Gui always having fun at the beach.

Sometimes you can find them riding a few waves with you. They really love surfing.

Do you wanna meet them?
 
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