Greeting the day on the beach in Puerto Escondido

We stumbled down to the beach at 6:00 a.m. on the 27th so we could watch the first surfers paddle out and see the sunrise.

We saw these two body surfers arrive on the beach and paddle out into the surf.

We thought they were the first ones, but after the sun turned everything brilliant pink for 30 seconds and then lit the sky with morning light, we saw that the far out waves were well-sprinkled with surfers who had paddled out before 6 a.m. when it was inky black outside!