A great day - with a great bunch of guys

It was an awesome day, the paying surfers were a bunch of good guys and they didn’t mind having me along, even when I caught the first wave of the day .... but that might have been because when I fell of on that first wave my leash snapped and I spent the next quarter of an hour swimming to get my board back. We surfed this spot on our own for four hours in the morning till the tide got too high then had lunch, checked a couple of other spots and returned for another 3 hour session in the afternoon on the dropping tide. Everyone had some epic waves. I have never seen sets like the ones that hit San Cristobal that day, It would be dead flat for 10 minutes, then a set of 12-18 super clean, solid double overhead waves would appear. I guess it was because the waves had been generated in the North Pacific Ocean, up near the coast of Russia – over 10,000 kilometres away and during the 8 day trip south the waves had bunched up a bit.