You may remember I've been banging on about getting a great Raglan Line Up for the Photo CPL Waves Gallery . I've been chasing swells and refining the angles, absolutely bloody loving the process to be honest. Feels like I've been on a whole new learning curve of what makes a magic swell on the Waikato Points. There was a special swell last week, the first swell in a very long time that didn't have a secondary swell running through it. My insider gave me the heads up week prior, 'have you seen this on the swell maps?' I hadn't. There was no way I was missing it. I'm not going to get into writing a blow by blow account... the swell was a fricken gem, super lined up, super clean winds and super crowded too! That said I didn't see one frown.
Theo Morse rippppping
Tava Santorik
Billy Stairmand could not have timed his return from the WQS grind more perfect ....and heads up no apologies for the amount of Bilbo images here in.
The place to be last Friday!
Emmerson Tucker with an after work rinse
Alani Morse, also featured in the Surfline Feature of this swell
Cassidy Man, no your eyes are ok, it's an arty speed blur...art I tell you!
Doubling down on the intention, arty blurry Bilbo
Lines filling the bay at dusk
...and deeen... Saturday morning.... now this is what I've been after; clean lines, a day you'd love to be in the water. It's now up in The Waves Gallery HERE. And I liked the idea of trying to compliment the composition of this one …
Those bewty lines!!! That's what we are after! This one is also up in the Wave Gallery HERE
...and this one! This one was used in the Surfline feature too. And it's in the Wave Gallery HERE
Back to the action with Indica Knox-Corcoran
The flow master Chrissy Malone
Chippy to the stars, Mr Scotty Wilkinson
My neighbour Sev Tolhurst was down for the weekend
As was fellow Piha grub Zak Becroft
Yep ... you know who
Two blissful days revelling in a magic swell. Of course the swell wasn't confined to Raglan, the whole west coast lit up. Surfline covered it in this feature…
FROM THE BOOK SHOP
Yess back in its third print. The Big Little Beach Book is available again, it is slowly getting into books stores and surf shops over the next few weeks. You can buy The Big Little Beach Book through the PhotoCPL Website HERE now, if you want it now.