Fowlie/Pavones Timeline

1933	Fowlie is born.
1939-1945	World War Two
1941	Fowlie moves from Minneapolis, MN, to Pacific Beach, CA, with his mother Valerie and sister Pat. Valerie later marries James Mack and adds two more girls to the family.
1951	Fowlie first goes to Hawaii with Junior Knox and shapes light-balsa fiberglass surfboards.
1952-1954	Fowlie serves the US in the Korean War.
October 1954	Fowlie is featured surfing Makaha shore break on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Early 1960s	Kenny Easton becomes the first surfing foreigner to find Pavones and the first person ever to ride its now legendary waves.
1960s-1970s	Title to the Pavones region is claimed for the first time by twenty to thirty Costa Rican Families.
1973	German surfer and sailor Winford Zeegen (likely the second surfing visitor to Pavones) arrives in Pavones—one year before Fowlie and ten years after Kenny Easton.
1974	Fowlie (at age forty-one) arrives in Pavones, constructs huts on the beach, and moves his entire family to Pavones.
1974-1982	Fowlie purchases every beachfront ranch and beach concession from Rio Manzanillo to Punta Banco from original title holders—purchases which give him over fifteen miles of beach-concession land and over eighty percent of Pavones.
1974-1985	Fowlie employees almost every local in Pavones and builds essentially every public amenity found in Pavones today—including the beach roads, road connecting Pavones to the Red Road to Conte, soccer field, two airstrips, bridges, new sawmill, new cantina, medical center, and schools. Fowlie also hires agronomists to develop experimental plants and teach locals how to farm. Together they plant hundreds of thousands of trees and crops and several highly sophisticated nurseries.
1976	Fowlie rebuilds the cantina.
1976-1982	Fowlie invites early surf cinematographers Spyder Wills and Greg Weaver to document the waves at Pavones, where they create hundreds of recordings during their extended visits.
1985	While Fowlie is visiting Mexico, local California authorities recover less than an ounce of marijuana in a raid of Fowlie’s 214-acre ranch, Rancho Del Rio, on the boarder of Orange County and Riverside County in California.
1986	Judge McBride throws Fowlie’s case out of California courts “in the interest of justice”—leaving Fowlie free and clear from all charges.
1987	Local authorities bring the discarded dry-conspiracy case to federal courts, which convict Fowlie of marijuana-conspiracy charges with just the single ounce of marijuana, alleged boxes with marijuana residue (never produce by the prosecution), and testimonies of paid informants. Fowlie is incarcerated in Mexico at the request of the US.
1990	Fowlie is extradited to federal prison on Terminal Island, California.
1993	Fowlie wins the Costa Rican case against IDA.
Early 1990s	Winford Zeegen is found dead by his boat on an island in Panama.
November 1997	Max Dalton is shot and killed during a shootout in Pavones.
2004	Fowlie is released after serving eighteen years of a thirty-year sentence—a maximum sentence with good behavior at that time.
June 2005	Costa Rica’s Director General of Immigration, Marco Badilla, exiles Fowlie from Costa Rica.