Seguridad en el mar: Identifica una corriente de resaca

¿Alguna vez has oído hablar sobre las corrientes de resaca? Si eres un surfista veterano, seguramente conozcas bien este término. Si todavía te estás iniciando, saber qué es una corriente de resaca es un concepto básico que garantizará tu seguridad en el mar. 

Por ello, desde Mundo Surf vamos a aclararte qué es este término y cómo puedes desenvolverte en una corriente de este tipo.

¡Comenzamos!

 

¿Sabes qué es y cómo reconocer una corriente de resaca?

En pocas palabras, una corriente de resaca es una corriente de agua que retrocede desde la orilla de la playa hacia mar adentro

corriente de resaca

 

Generalmente, se forman en la superficie del mar en zonas en las que el agua no cubre demasiado, entre dos bancos de arena.

El origen de estas corrientes se debe a la rotura irregular de las olas en la orilla, que forman bancos de arena, con zonas más profundas entre dos bancos de arena. Para que el agua se evacúe y circule de forma fluida, se generan asas corrientes.

Las corrientes de resaca son bastante estrechas y, tal y como te acabamos de contar, su movimiento es muy rápido, por lo que pueden llegar a ser mortales.

Y en este punto, te preguntarás ¿Cómo puedo identificar una corriente de resaca para que no me afecte a la hora de surfear? Lo, primero, observa el mar y la playa antes de entrar al agua. No confíes en las zonas de la playa en las que veas una orilla tranquila, sin apenas oleaje ya que esta tiene probabilidad de formar una corriente de resaca. 

Al igual, otro truco para localizar una corriente de marea es observar que, tras una orilla tranquila, se está formando una especie de río o de surco de corriente que se extiende desde la orilla hacia el mar profundo. De hecho, este “surco” puede incluso tener un color diferente al agua del resto del mar. 

Después, habla con surfistas locales o con los socorristas. Cada playa es distinta, los locales son los que mejor te podrán informar sobre las especificidades de esta playa.

Otro consejo que debemos darte es que revises la predicción de la marea antes de ir a surfear. Busca información sobre la marea de la zona en la que vas a hacer surf y lee si es una zona propensa a que ocurra este tipo de corrientes. De esta manera puedes anticipar los movimientos de agua. Si la marea está baja, al observar la forma de la playa, te podrás hacer una idea de si se podría formar una corriente de resaca en alguna zona.

 

corriente de retorno

 

Consejos para salir ileso de una corriente de resaca

Ahora que ya sabes qué es y cómo identificar una corriente de resaca, vamos a contarte qué tienes que hacer para salir de una si alguna vez te ves envuelto en este tipo de corriente.

Si te ves inmerso y atrapado en la corriente, mantén la calma. Sabemos que esto puede parecer difícil de llevar a cabo pero, ten en cuenta que tu tranquilidad evitará que hagas algún movimiento del que puedas arrepentirte, o que mal gastes tu energía. Además, es fundamental que no sueltes tu tabla de surf , con ella remas mucho más rápido y te cansas mucho menos. Y tu tabla te permite descansar si te vas quedando sin energía.  

Por otro lado, nunca nades hacia la orilla de frente a la corriente, nadando hacia esta dirección solo conseguirás cansarte, y es que, la corriente podría atraparte aún más y arrastrarte mar adentro. Lo idóneo es que nades hacia un lado, para alejarte de la zona de corriente, para poder después remar hacia la orilla, con la corriente a tu favor.

corriente de resaca

¿Y qué diferencia una corriente de resaca de una corriente de retorno?

La corriente de resaca y de retorno hacen referencia a la misma corriente que hemos explicado anteriormente por lo que, si lees que en la zona en la que surfeas o tienes planeado surfear hay previsiones de corrientes de resaca o retorno ¡ten cuidado y aplica todos nuestros consejos!

Las corrientes de resaca son sobre todo peligrosas para los bañistas. Los surfistas, al disponer de una tabla de surf, nos movemos con mucho más facilidad en el agua. Es por ello que habitualmente, son los surfistas los que vienen a ayudar a los bañistas.

Pero, además de todos los tips que te hemos dejado, te aconsejamos revisar también el estado del material que vas a utilizar a la hora de surfear. Contar con una buena tabla de surf, un buen traje de neopreno, unas quillas de surf y un  leash de surf en buen estado es esencial a la hora de poder practicar este deporte con seguridad. 

 

Si necesitas renovar alguno de estos materiales o incluso tu grip de surf, en nuestra tienda online de surf encontrarás una gran variedad de modelos entre los que escoger. Y, si tienes dudas, puedes preguntar sin compromiso a nuestro equipo y te aconsejaremos y resolveremos cualquier duda que tengas ¡Recuerda que estamos aquí para ayudarte!

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How To Travel To Oktoberfest 2023

Getting to Munich’s Oktoberfest can be quite the ordeal, with all of the world’s beer lovers pining for a mega-pint of that delicious Bavarian nectar. But never fear, not only do we provide the best value for money and most fun Oktoberfest camping accommodation in Munich, we have also whipped up this handy little guide to travelling to Oktoberfest, so that you can join us in making the most of this first post-pandemic edition of the world’s biggest folk festival, and the original and by far best beer festival. 

Travel to Oktoberfest Munich by plane

Travelling to Munich by plane is the gold standard in convenience and speed. By far your best option is to fly into Munich, and then simply ride the train from Munich’s international airport all the way downtown. The whole process is smooth, easy, and usually pretty cheap. BUT this isn’t an ordinary year, and prices are already rising, meaning that usually reasonable routes are filling fast and as such, prices are getting jacked. That said, there are still deals to be found, and we did a little search using Google’s amazing flight finding tool. These were the last minute deals in 2022, so get in earlier so you get them cheaper.

Oktoberfest flight prices from around Europe to Munich

There’s not much better than visa-free travel around Europe’s Schengen zone. We found flights from Dublin, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Rome, Athens, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Krakow and Amsterdam for between €150 and €250 depending on when you fly. We didn’t search for all European cities, but we’d expect them to be in a similar ballpark.

Oktoberfest flight prices from London to Munich

Around €200 return for weekend trips, cheaper midweek. The Thursday before Oktoberfest starts (so two days before the beer halls open and when Stoketoberfest cracks open its open bar) there are flights for €180, but you’d want to snag them asap.

Oktoberfest flight prices from Australia to Munich

If you wanted to fly all the way from Down Under to Oktoberfest, we strongly recommend that you make a bigger trip out of it. That said, there are flights that will get you there the wednesday before the Oktoberfest opening ceremony for about $1,700 – or the price of a six pack in Sydney.

Oktoberfest flight prices from the USA and Canada to Munich

Flights from the east coast of the US to Munich are currently around $800 for dates around Oktoberfest. Add $200 if you’re flying from the west coast. Flights from Canada run a similar schedule, with the flights from Vancouver being a couple of hundred Canadian dollars more than those from Toronto, but you gotta account for that pesky exchange rate, eh. 

Flying to Munich hints and tips

  • Try to fly outside of weekends to get the best rates, and from our research a couple of days before the official start of Oktoberfest, on the 16th of September – and take a day or two to explore Munich and our Stoketoberfest campsite.
  • Consider flying into cities near Munich and getting a train into the city. Trains from Nuremberg and Stuttgart are around as low as €12-€25 and will add an hour to your travel time, while flights into those cities are considerably cheaper. 
  • If you’re flying from farther afield, why not make a trip of it, explore some other cities, and travel around by train into Munich. See the next section for our guide to train travel.

Travel To Oktoberfest By Train

If you’re lucky enough to already be in Europe, train travel to Munich for Oktoberfest can be a cheaper, slightly slower, more comfortable alternative to flying. Anywhere in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, France and surrounds will have cheap and fast train connections to Munich – we’re talking less than €100 return. We even found a €60 return trip from Rome! All of these trips are going to take less than six hours, which when you consider travelling to airports from the centre of town and vice versa, ain’t all that much of an inconvenience. 

And once you get to Munich you’ll arrive a literal stone’s throw from the Oktoberfest fairgrounds, and a short metro ride to the Stoketoberfest campsite. 

Also, it’s very ok to drink beer on European trains (for the most part, don’t quote us to the authorities if it’s not), so what better way to watch the European countryside slide by, while getting a little bit of a buzz on? 

When looking for trains around Europe, we like using the German railways own website and search engine at bahn.de, because we just trust them to get it right. Bloody efficient lot that they are. 

Travel To Oktoberfest By Bus

General rule of thumb here is to half the train ticket price and double the time required to make the journey. From many European cities, a bus is a very reasonable way to travel to Oktoberfest – particularly if you’re booking last minute. Buses in Europe are comfortable-enough affairs, safe and the highways they roll along wide, fast and full of German engineering travelling close to the speed of sound. 

You can find bus times and prices with aggregator sites like Omio or Rome to Rio, or FlixBus seem to go everywhere, always. 

If you’re a true fun-lover, Stoke Travel operates buses to Oktoberfest from cities like Budapest, Prague, Paris, Amsterdam/Brussels, London, Florence/Milan/Torino, Vienna, and Berlin. Check out our buses and prices here.

Travel To Oktoberfest By Car

Look, this is the world’s biggest beer festival so we don’t really recommend driving, BUT if you have access to a car – or enough people to justify hiring one – and a good designated driver system, then driving could be an option to get you to Munich, arriving in style and comfort on the autobahn. There are a few considerations to take when opting to drive:

  • German police are crazy for a alcohol breath test and drug swab – quadruply so during Oktoberfest – so take that into account, you wild little hedonists,
  • Petrol prices in Europe are skyrocketing, so you’re going to want to car pool,
  • The autobahn is wild, with Audis and Beemers and Mercs consistently tickling 200kms/h (120 miles) in the outer lane. Proceed with caution,
  • Parking might be an issue in a city with millions of visitors,
  • Stoke Travel does offer an option to arrive and sleep in your own van. 

Also, you could consider ride sharing with apps like BlaBlaCar, hitchhiking, or even walking/cycling through Germany’s extensive trail networks, but if you’re going to do something like that then you’re already intrepid enough to get yourself to Munich without our help. 

The Conclusion

As with any travel, the arithmetic that we have to do is: how convenient do I want/need my arrival to be VS how much am I willing to pay. Flying is by far the easiest and fastest way to arrive in Munich, but won’t be the cheapest. Train’s aren’t far behind – usually twice the time and half the cost – and are an excellent option if you’re starting your journey from nearby. Buses will again double time and halve costs. 

Whatever you choose to do, you can always offset the cost by staying in Munich’s best value and most fun accommodation option, where for €65 a night you get not only somewhere to sleep, but brunch with bottomless mimosas, live music and DJs, a wild party in a festival wonderland, and the opportunity to meet 1000s of likeminded travellers and beer lovers from all over the world – and then hit the beer halls with them. See our Oktoberfest 2023 packages here.

We do recommend that you get everything in order ASAP, and lock in your trip, because it’s just going to get more expensive. This year’s event will sell out! So don’t get left snoozing. See you in Munich!

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How To Travel To Oktoberfest 2022

For the first time since 2019, Munich’s Oktoberfest is confirmed ON in 2022 and this year’s addition promises to be bigger, better, wilder, wetter – beer soaked – and busier than ever. This means more people to have fun with, to drink with, to sing Bavarian beer chants with, to dance on tables with and to generally get up to no good with. It also means that it’s going to be harder to find reasonably priced Oktoberfest accommodation, that beer hall tables – on the weekends especially – will be tricky to come across, and that transport to Munich will be more expensive and more difficult to find than usual. 

But never fear, not only do we provide the best value for money and most fun Oktoberfest accommodation in Munich, we have also whipped up this handy little guide to travelling to Oktoberfest, so that you can join us in making the most of this first post-pandemic edition of the world’s biggest folk festival, and the original and by far best beer festival. 

Travel to Oktoberfest Munich by plane

Travelling to Munich by plane is the gold standard in convenience and speed. By far your best option is to fly into Munich, and then simply ride the train from Munich’s international airport all the way downtown. The whole process is smooth, easy, and usually pretty cheap. BUT this isn’t an ordinary year, and prices are already rising, meaning that usually reasonable routes are filling fast and as such, prices are getting jacked. That said, there are still deals to be found, and we did a little search using Google’s amazing flight finding tool. Here’s what we found tt the time of writing, the first week of August (all flights direct, or one stop maximum):

Flights from around Europe to Munich

There’s not much better than visa-free travel around Europe’s Schengen zone. We found flights from Dublin, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Rome, Athens, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Krakow and Amsterdam for between €150 and €250 depending on when you fly. We didn’t search for all European cities, but we’d expect them to be in a similar ballpark.

Flights from London to Munich

Around €200 return for weekend trips, cheaper midweek. The Thursday before Oktoberfest starts (so two days before the beer halls open and when Stoketoberfest cracks open its open bar) there are flights for €180, but you’d want to snag them asap.

Flights from Australia to Munich

If you wanted to fly all the way from Down Under to Oktoberfest, we strongly recommend that you make a bigger trip out of it. That said, there are flights that will get you there the wednesday before the Oktoberfest opening ceremony for about $1,700 – or the price of a six pack in Sydney.

 Flights from the USA and Canada to Munich

Flights from the east coast of the US to Munich are currently around $800 for dates around Oktoberfest. Add $200 if you’re flying from the west coast. Flights from Canada run a similar schedule, with the flights from Vancouver being a couple of hundred Canadian dollars more than those from Toronto, but you gotta account for that pesky exchange rate, eh. 

Flying to Munich hints and tips

  • Try to fly outside of weekends to get the best rates, and from our research a couple of days before the official start of Oktoberfest, on the 17th of September – and take a day or two to explore Munich and our Stoketoberfest campsite.
  • Consider flying into cities near Munich and getting a train into the city. Trains from Nuremberg and Stuttgart are around as low as €12-€25 and will add an hour to your travel time, while flights into those cities are considerably cheaper. 
  • If you’re flying from farther afield, why not make a trip of it, explore some other cities, and travel around by train into Munich. See the next section for our guide to train travel.

Travel To Oktoberfest By Train

If you’re lucky enough to already be in Europe, train travel to Munich for Oktoberfest can be a cheaper, slightly slower, more comfortable alternative to flying. Anywhere in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, France and surrounds will have cheap and fast train connections to Munich – we’re talking less than €100 return. We even found a €60 return trip from Rome! All of these trips are going to take less than six hours, which when you consider travelling to airports from the centre of town and vice versa, ain’t all that much of an inconvenience. 

And once you get to Munich you’ll arrive a literal stone’s throw from the Oktoberfest fairgrounds, and a short metro ride to the Stoketoberfest campsite. 

Also, it’s very ok to drink beer on European trains (for the most part, don’t quote us to the authorities if it’s not), so what better way to watch the European countryside slide by, while getting a little bit of a buzz on? 

When looking for trains around Europe, we like using the German railways own website and search engine at bahn.de, because we just trust them to get it right. Bloody efficient lot that they are. 

Travel To Oktoberfest By Bus

General rule of thumb here is to half the train ticket price and double the time required to make the journey. From many European cities, a bus is a very reasonable way to travel to Oktoberfest – particularly if you’re booking last minute. Buses in Europe are comfortable-enough affairs, safe and the highways they roll along wide, fast and full of German engineering travelling close to the speed of sound. 

You can find bus times and prices with aggregator sites like Omio or Rome to Rio, or FlixBus seem to go everywhere, always. 

If you’re a true fun-lover, Stoke Travel operates buses to Oktoberfest from cities like Budapest, Prague, Paris, Amsterdam/Brussels, London, Florence/Milan/Torino, Vienna, and Berlin. Check out our buses and prices here.

Travel To Oktoberfest By Car

Look, this is the world’s biggest beer festival so we don’t really recommend driving, BUT if you have access to a car – or enough people to justify hiring one – and a good designated driver system, then driving could be an option to get you to Munich, arriving in style and comfort on the autobahn. There are a few considerations to take when opting to drive:

  • German police are crazy for a alcohol breath test and drug swab – quadruply so during Oktoberfest – so take that into account, you wild little hedonists,
  • Petrol prices in Europe are skyrocketing, so you’re going to want to car pool,
  • The autobahn is wild, with Audis and Beemers and Mercs consistently tickling 200kms/h (120 miles) in the outer lane. Proceed with caution,
  • Parking might be an issue in a city with millions of visitors,
  • Stoke Travel does offer an option to arrive and sleep in your own van. 

Also, you could consider ride sharing with apps like BlaBlaCar, hitchhiking, or even walking/cycling through Germany’s extensive trail networks, but if you’re going to do something like that then you’re already intrepid enough to get yourself to Munich without our help. 

The Conclusion

As with any travel, the arithmetic that we have to do is: how convenient do I want/need my arrival to be VS how much am I willing to pay. Flying is by far the easiest and fastest way to arrive in Munich, but won’t be the cheapest. Train’s aren’t far behind – usually twice the time and half the cost – and are an excellent option if you’re starting your journey from nearby. Buses will again double time and halve costs. 

Whatever you choose to do, you can always offset the cost by staying in Munich’s best value and most fun accommodation option, where for €65 a night you get not only somewhere to sleep, but brunch with bottomless mimosas, live music and DJs, a wild party in a festival wonderland, and the opportunity to meet 1000s of likeminded travellers and beer lovers from all over the world – and then hit the beer halls with them. 

We do recommend that you get everything in order ASAP, and lock in your trip, because it’s just going to get more expensive. This year’s event will sell out! So don’t get left snoozing. See you in Munich!

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