Pictures from Dublin Zoo

[Oggie]

Haha, it is pretty epic alright. The lips on some of the waves are so thick, and you are hovering only inches above razor sharp slabs under the water. Serious cajones to even attempt it...

These are some shots (from the same spot) by the Irish photographer Mickey Smith, he specializes in surfing photography. I love his stuff!







The terrifying beauty of the ocean, eh?

[Andre]

Those water camermen get smacked and lip launched sometimes too.

We surf a break here called Meanos that does that same stuff but its much much smaller than that. Sometimes you think you have missed a wave totally and turn around and face the horizon to paddle back out and you just go over backwards and end up falling through the lip into the bowl and do the washing machine thing over a foot deep, flat rock bed.
A mate once turned looked at me shrugged cause he missed it, sat up on his board, started heading off backwards over the falls (which is funny enough in itself) but he starts singing Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye. his voice just fades off and we hear the water spit out the end of the tube ba boom over the reef then frrrrsssst and hes gone .