Big Wednesday
Big Wednesday : December 21 2005. All of Southern California and Baja gets bombed with good surf, some of the best we’ve seen in 20+ years. Most excellent. I got away for a few hours and saw some guys tackle what is probably an 18 foot La Jolla Cove left. In the photo below, Kyle Blase is on the left, I spoke with him by phone later, he caught five that day and was pretty stoked about it all.
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| La Jolla Cove only breaks on really big swells. Giant surf and big waves nail Southern California, December 21, 2005. La Jolla Cove, La Jolla, California, USA. Image: 14816 Location: La Jolla Cove, California, USA View this Image in Google Earth! |
Pipes below Swami’s, noon. It was enormously crowded in the water and on the cliffs, like I have never seen before. I liked the look of the walls to the south of the point, pretty awesome but would be tough to surf without getting throttled:
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| Pipes goes off south of Swamis, Encinitas. Giant surf and big waves nail Southern California, December 21, 2005. Swamis, Encinitas, California, USA. Image: 14840 Location: Swamis, Encinitas, California, USA View this Image in Google Earth! |
Oceanside Pier, sunset, spongers getting foamy brown room tubes to the delight of the hundreds lined up just above them, cheering in unison as each guy would get barreled.
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| Bodyboarders tackle big waves at Oceanside Pier, sunset. Giant surf and big waves nail Southern California, December 21, 2005. Oceanside Pier, Oceanside, California, USA. Image: 14843 Location: Oceanside Pier, California, USA View this Image in Google Earth! |




























