Police and community groups organised activities for at-risk children such as football games and even a surf camp.
He also recently founded a church, and sometimes has missionaries staying with him at the surf camp.
Even there, though, we ran into another group of Americans from a surf camp.
I volunteer at an organization that provides free surf camps for children with autism.
Many popular surfing destinations have surf schools and surf camps that offer lessons.
There is a surf camp in km64 which contains accommodation (casitas) and a pool.
So I signed up for surf camp.
A "surf camp" with two two-hour lessons and a hotel room costs $150 a day.
If you're in an area without a surf camp, calling local surf shops is a good way to find out where you can take lessons.
The quake triggered a tsunami, which swept through the surf camp about 40 minutes later.