Maybe you saw my post about the monster waves that hit SoCal the week before Christmas. Well, here are the best photos I’ve seen of that *humongous* swell! Yes, this is Southern California — not the North Shore of Oahu!
Photographer: Sam Iacobellis (images used with permission). Shot from the cliffs at Black’s Beach in San Diego County — that’s in the Torrey Pines area, just north of LaJolla. Thanks to my good friends at The Surfrider Foundation in San Clemente for alerting me to these excellent photos: Steve Blank and Jim Moriarty, who has his own great blog called Shaping Room. Note there the caption he gives to these photos: “Why We Do What We Do”(!) Kudos to the photographer and, especially, the rider! (I’ll update this post with his name, if and when I get it.)
To those who surf, you’re no doubt familiar with this saying associated with legendary Hawaiian big-wave rider Eddie Aiku: “Eddie Would Go.” Well, this guy is an Eddie! Anyone out there care to guess the height of this wave?
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