The first photo here is taken from the steps of the house again and looking just up towards Pipeline which is pretty well right in front of the end of the lagoon you can see here. That lagoon is made from when the bigger sets of waves come in and come right up the beach and over into this low spot.....on big swells and the right tides this happens that regularly that the water does'nt get time to soak away before the next wave dumps another load into it, so it just keeps getting deeper and deeper, when this shot was taken it was just below waist deep.
The second shot is actually my last shot from this day, and shows how this day ended up. It got as black as hell........lightning strikes were going directly into the ocean and the lagoon at this stage was well over waist deep and taking up a good sized area of the beach. The couple of white spots you can see on the photo is from rain drops on my lens picking up light from my flash which went off automatically as it had got so dark. There were still a couple of guys out in the water, but I had been at the beach for over 10 hours by this stage and it was time to go back to the house and start downloading 4 CF cards full of images and see what little nuggets I had managed to capture through this day of magic surf. This day alone made it well worth the effort to get back to the North Shore on our way home to Oz......when this place is going off, it really is something to witness........the next day it had dropped right off, and the day after that it was basically flat again. All this group of surf photos in the next few posts of this blog were taken on the one day...it went from perfect waves in beautiful sunshine to wild waves and a full on storm black sky.........I got sunburnt in the morning and saturated in the afternoon, and loved every minute of it.
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