Yesterday afternoon Hurricane Patricia snuck up our backdoor and threw some nice huge storm swell our way this morning. I spent most of the day chasing swell with Tzahui and taking a ton of pics. I had the video camera with me and shot a few clips before the battery went dead, so murphy’s law. I strung a few together but they don’t do justice to the size of the larger sets that were coming in. This is mostly the smaller sets and shore dump. I had one minute of battery life. The outside sets were bananas, at one spot, a friend remarked that the tubes could fit jeeps tucked inside, after escaping the wicked shore dump.
I manned the camera for most of the day, but did manage to get about an hour in the water, at the tail end, mid-day after the wind was up. I couldn’t sack up and kept having visions of the closeout at the end of the ride. I scored one wave and headed for shore.
This swell was big, thick and Gnarlsely. photos to come.
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Love the tunes. I’d be with you pullin’ back for sure on some of those.
Nasty pickin’s
Power waves and great music! :)))
Looking forward to see the pics.
A big swell as also hit Portugal, almost washing away the Rip Curl Pros Search :) as you can see on their Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/ripcurl?ref=nf#/note.php?note_id=163223381156&ref=mf
Also check out the Tow-in session with Taylor Knox and Mick Fannnig
http://www.live.ripcurl.com/index.php?id=215,500,0,0,1,0