Episode 12: Awareness is Everything with Bamboo Bob

In this week’s episode with Bamboo Bob we discuss the wide diversity and uniqueness of his nursery Pura Vida Tropicals, how he builds soil with local resources, how awareness is everything when learning to surf and learning to live well, his karma initiator, swimming with aliens and his 60 year history of surfing.

Episode Highlights:
[00:00] A sample of the plants and edibles at Pura Vida Nursery
[06:45] Building soil
[13:48] Awareness is everything: Our surf session,
[16:07] His karma initiator and swimming with aliens,
[23:05] Sweet spots like Oceanside
[31:07] 60 years of surfing history
[33:52] Tracing a familial line

Quotes from Bob:
"Nature's phenomenal. I just love collecting everything. As you can see here, I haven't stopped yet and I'm 75 years old and I continue to put seeds in the ground, even though I know I'm not gonna be able to live long enough to accept its shade. I've had couples that come over here and brought their kids, and then I get a phone call later from the parents. “Hey, my son wishes you were his grandpa, so he could learn lessons.” They come back and have started their own little gardens. I hope I'm doing good and that's the inspiration that I like to try giving."

"You gotta have releases where you can get out of that rat race of working and what have you. Find time for yourself and getting yourself centered. That's what surfing does. You have to have more of it, and then you find that euphoria."

"There's a lot of more life than what we think we know all the time. We’re like a horse with blinders, take those blinders off and inundate yourself with stuff and really find out what you wanna do."

Permission to use photo by Santos Sal Garcia of Global Photo USA