Aquabumps.com - where the waves live

This beach is normally the kiddy beach – all nice and flat ‘n’ calm. It’s the main beach at Seal rocks, where the fishos launch their boats. Well Jan 2008 we saw a massive north swell blow down from a cyclone off Queensland. The whole east coast of Australia lit up with waves. The pass at Byron was on fire. This little beach facing north at Seals copped the brunt of the north swell. The shore break was neck-breaking. As the sun was going down I got these great shots of sets grinding along the cliff (the black background) and slappin’ on the beach. I tried to shoot this in the water, but had little success. Very powerful stuff.