The story begins like this:

"Many who lived and surfed in Newquay remember 1966 as the year of "The Great September Swell." Huge lines stacked up to the horizon from a deep Atlantic hurricane. It was the biggest clean surf many people had ever seen. The long distance ground swell closed out the whole of Newquay Bay at 10 foot. The Cribbar reef, off the end of Towan headland, was breaking at 20 foot."

The rest of the story can be read here. Check it out, it's like the Pommy version of Big Wednesday, to the extent that when the lads make it back to shore there's a geezer version of Bear waiting to give them an ice-cream each. Bugger lemons and pies when you can have Mr Whippy.

Anyway...these shots, showing Newquay Bay and the Cribbar, were taken by roaming Vicco photog Ben Differding as he gets up to no good in the Old Dart. Not sure if he's surfing or not...//STUART NETTLE