I heart WOTD

Yikes!
And fully agree on the photo. Well done, Craig.

Thanks guys, slow morning but got some gold! That one went so square, you'll see in the shots before this one.

Yeah awesome shot Craig, i love your work especially sitting in the channel there. i dont know if there's a current but it seems like hard work to get the shot and jumping off too. Getting in from what ive seen on flat days seems even harder.

Yeah and S.J looks very casual amongst it .
He even has time to brag about the fish he caught earlier.

Sick shot Craig. Just saw the pulled back shot of the same wave by Mark Onorati. That's a ripper too.

great shot...what everyone else said, craig. epic

Awesome pic Craig. Reward for putting in the effort.

Cheers, how he can be so casual in such a situation is just mind blowing. Another breed.

Bring on Origin, maybe not the boog v stand up battle after the footage came to air yesterday!

Go Queensland!!!!!

Thats in nsw mate!!!!!!

groundswell wrote:

Thats in nsw mate!!!!!!

Haha... Qld got up!!! Reckon dbah can be claimed as Queensland.. ;)

Thank goodness it’s over. Tedesco and even more so Cleary shouldn’t have their noggins seen in public ever again..

Thats a rare pic not many surf Mcoys let alone longer Mcoys.
Edit : after a longer look the boards not long at all.

I dig the McCoy (and its colour scheme), but I reckon any surfer can connect with the feeling of weighting the toeside rail on a big wave to drop down and accelerate around a breaking section.

Outside of tube riding, it's one of the great feelings.

I liked the WOTD today, nice to see a nugget or zap at mach

Yeah the McCoy caught my eye too. My mate , who doesn't surf anymore, had one with nearly identical colours . Brings back some good memories.

Something about today's pic. Really like it.

Great pic, nice and committed

Today’s and yesterday’s excellent ~waves for us all…

Yesterdays looks a lot easier to surf than anything around here. Even the beginner waves here throw fairly wide from takeoff and are rippy.

Todays makes it a trifecta .... keep them coming boys

A few days of relatable waves….fantastic stuff.

Nug

Incredible colours when you zoom in, great capture Robert.

Is that uplift?

Sprout wrote:

Incredible colours when you zoom in, great capture Robert.

Oh that is gold! Great work Sprout.

Todays WOTD is magnificent. Captures everything , light , athleticism, doing the most with what you've got on a wave and oh to be young and doin your thang.

I like todays shot . The blurred grass has an interesting effect on the wave face. Nice work .

Thanks TS.

Love the feeling of getting that first sight of the surf, a pumping, barrelling right running off without a soul in sight.

Yeah me too tubeshooter.

I don't think it is from there, but it looks like one of the popular exposed beachies from your home state, Craig.

Yeah, nah from a recent trip up the NSW coast :)

Epic shot today by Trent. Insane!!

Love todays. Looks cold and isolated. Probably a metropolis just out of shot?

Fit for a King.

seeds wrote:

Love todays. Looks cold and isolated. Probably a metropolis just out of shot?

Seeds. No way close to a metropolis. Steve Arklay continues this against the will of locals, him and that other clown think they own the joint.

AlfredWallace wrote:

seeds wrote:

Love todays. Looks cold and isolated. Probably a metropolis just out of shot?

Seeds. No way close to a metropolis. Steve Arklay continues this against the will of locals, him and that other clown think they own the joint.

I might regret typing this but I'm fairly sure it's not where you think it is.

I was referring to Ian Everett’s shot from 5 days back.

Boxright. (Royal A-Frames WOTD.) Oh, thats a spanner in the works of my power of observation. Steve often uses cryptic ways of not telling, when actually he wants to, but knows he shouldn’t. If I’m correct, its where my brother lives and him and his mates get the shits with those two, SA and SD.

Do the photographers get paid for wave of the day?

Heavy water!!!!

Pretty sure that would have been yesterday, first decent winds NW and mid north has had in ages. Excellent wave, i would have been on the lid at that size or photoging.

groundswell wrote:

Pretty sure that would have been yesterday, first decent winds NW and mid north has had in ages. Excellent wave, i would have been on the lid at that size or photoging.

Mate was there last Sunday, said pumping and was the day???
Dunno

Maybe, a Sydney mate of mine also said he scored it but didnt know if he was fibbing as message was short, its been shit here and hes going around Aus with family..Apparently no spots in Exmouth for campers or caravans till september.

groundswell wrote:

Maybe, a Sydney mate of mine also said he scored it but didnt know if he was fibbing as message was short, its been shit here and hes going around Aus with family..Apparently no spots in Exmouth for campers or caravans till september.

Yeah was up there until beginning of July, busy. Some no shows in National Park spots when was there ...

groundswell wrote:

Maybe, a Sydney mate of mine also said he scored it but didnt know if he was fibbing as message was short, its been shit here and hes going around Aus with family..Apparently no spots in Exmouth for campers or caravans till september.

Yeah was up there until beginning of July, busy. Some no shows in National Park spots when was there ...

Worst time in modern history to visit the NW?

That would be a firm yes.

Im not too sure about bluff and gnar but always thought they got similar winds to here. And mid north west has been terrible with devil winds. Maybe gero has had a few days at one spot i used to surf but i dont think gero likes west swells, im not too sure.
Mid north west has been NW, west or North almost every day since Easter.

groundswell wrote:

Im not too sure about bluff and gnar but always thought they got similar winds to here. And mid north west has been terrible with devil winds. Maybe gero has had a few days at one spot i used to surf but i dont think gero likes west swells, im not too sure.
Mid north west has been NW, west or North almost every day since Easter.

Was in area all of May and most of June... First time so cannot compare. If crappy year and bad winds, then still better than most places I have been...

Plenty of swell just bad winds for Jakes, were you in Gnaraloo area or Kalbarri/gero?