“The adrenaline gets going and hey, you just want the biggest and the best one you can get out there and the excitement takes over and you just go. The group surfed for a solid seven hours that day, Blair says. “We used our jet skis to get out there which definitely helps because it breaks a little bit off-land and there’s a lot of current, so paddling off the shore would be pretty tough work.” The surfers needed some mechanical help to reach the big, breaking waves, though. “They don’t seem overly big when you’re riding them but when you’re laying on the surface after coming up from being trashed by one of them and the next one’s about to land on your head you get a pretty good indication of how tall and powerful they are coming at you.” The waves coming in were around five metres high, he says. “It was epic, mate. It was solid, it was big, definitely had the heart rate going. We were stoked to be amongst it, eh?" This time, Blair says, the waves were worth the effort. “We’ve surfed this a place a few times over the years and just the other day it was the first time it had broken in a couple of years. Blair Stewart - one of the surfers who tackled the huge waves - tells Jesse Mulligan the last time the waves were that big was two years ago.
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