Yeah, by now you know how la Nina is turning things on their heads, making it rain through the dry season, pump with swell through the low season.
This swell is the latest in a list of welcome surprises - and next week's swell will be welcomed the same.
This footage is from yesterday morning featuring Sheldon Simkus, Wade Carmichael, and Mikey Wright, amongst many others.
"That board felt like the starting point for a new life."
The inner mechanics of Russell's mind.
Sniffing out the bounty on land and at sea.
From a day with a low wave count yet high consequence.
Like a hundred social media clips joined together but not on social media.
Seeking darkness on a sunny day.
And Matahi lifts the bar yet again.
Bite size humans in king size waves.
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Last wave points to the reality of getting waves amongst the crowd. Some psycho waves in there though! That mikey wright backwash freefall was mental
That and the flog chucking his board at 17 seconds. Nice bookends to show the full Supler Bank experience.
It's funny how people who drop in don't like being dropped in on. The double board flick was a classic.
glamorizing this circus is akin to watching porn stars having sex, looks good but something the average man would never likely gain access too
Would you want to gain access to a porn star?
Snapper is the Annabelle Chong of the world’s surf spots.
It’s not a stretch to describe many crew out Snapper as desperate, grim faced fuckers , so the analogy holds up pretty well.
Haha
"Grim faced" that is so true for such crowded line ups. Can be a weird way to have "fun".
Touché, would have to be a thick wrapper
Touché, would have to be a thick wrapper
hahaha
There is space in that zone for normal people, but its way down the line, not out the back at snapper. I really don't know how people cope with the rail to rail craziness of it.
Away from snapper and the points, the Goldie isn't too far different from other surf zones in the world. I'm a local and regularly surf my beachie with few people and mainly local guys I know. As you get older though you do start to dread the bigger point only swells.
Pretty average considering how good it can be. Mikey Wright getting hung up, bogging rails reflects the swell direction and wobbly sections. Just a bit off but still better than offshore slop of last days in Newy
Yeah was no 17 second swell more like 6.
Does the Gold Coast get swell periods in excess of 12 to 14 seconds?
Occasionally and they generally suck for most places with closeouts everywhere.
Knowing my luck... paddling out on such a glorious morning at Snappa, I'da sat up and thought "fuck this is alright"... then gone into some sort of sneezing attack just to get meself off to a good start.