Shaper · Ericeira
Mica Surfboards
Mica Lourenco hand-shapes made-to-measure boards out of Carvoeira, minutes from the Ericeira reefs: grovellers, step-ups, eggs, classics and a full high-performance line.
Mica Surfboards is Mica Lourenco's workshop in Carvoeira, in the Mafra hills a few minutes inland from the Ericeira reefs. Every board is hand-shaped and built to the surfer's own dimensions.
The range is wide: small-wave grovellers, step-ups for size, single fins and eggs, longboards, and a full high-performance line, plus named models like the Pump, the Spoon and the Todo Terreno. Orders and the showroom through the website.
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Cave
A short, violent right-hand barrel over a shallow rock shelf near Ribeira d'Ilhas. All the intensity of a slab in a small package. Experts only, and only at the right tide.
Experts onlyOctober to March
Coxos
The best wave in the Ericeira reserve and one of the finest right-hand points in Europe: long, thick, fast walls that barrel on the take-off and race down the reef. Advanced surfers only.
Advanced surfersOctober to April
Foz do Lizandro
The beach break at the mouth of the Lizandro river, just south of Ericeira. A wide, forgiving sandy beach that is the town's main learner wave and home to most of its surf schools.
BeginnersYear-round; summer is smallest and best for learning