The rarest of birds – a one-day cyclone swell!
You like rare, beautiful birds? Tomorrow morning, all over Yallingup, Gracetown and Margaret River, surfers are going to wake up to that most sublime of west coast gifts – a cyclone-generated north swell. If Cyclone Marcus stays on its trajectory, and it’s looking like it will, sublime… miraculous… sandbottom righthanders with notes of the Supabank are going to fire tomoz.
Seven years ago, the Margaret River photographer Jamie Scott shot Taj Burrow, Jay Davies and Dino Adrian inside impossibly perfect, and often impossibly hard to get into, six-foot sandbottom tubes.
“You’re just looking at each other with your mouths open and you’re shaking your head and nothing comes out, you don’t know what to say. I’d lost my voice by the end of the day,” Taj said of a wave that has only appeared, in this sort of form, twice, and only for a few hours each time, in the past 20 years.
That was Cyclone Bianca, when clean two-foot runners turned into eight-foot bombs by the afternoon.
“You’re just looking at each other with your mouths open and you’re shaking your head and nothing comes out, you don’t know what to say. I’d lost my voice by the end of the day,” Taj said of a wave that has only appeared, in this sort of form, twice, and only for a few hours each time, in the past 20 years.
Tomoz it could be on again.
“It’s crystal ball stuff but everything’s looking good for it,” says Jamie Scott. “The wind looks good, the swell looks good. It’s going to be like Snapper down here tomorrow. Everyone’s onto it. Crew are flying over from the east and, obviously, the pro’s have got nothing on until Thursday at Bells.”
And it’s a one-day thing.
“Monday is crap. The wind goes (onshore) north-west and the swell goes more west (straighter).”
Jamie says he’ll be up at five, even though it’s not exactly…light… until seven, but he’ll load up his water housing, his drone, his long lens, stick his jetski on the back of his four-wheel-drive and meet up with the old gang, Taj, Jay and Dino.
“I’m fucking set,” says Jamie.
It’s a neat symmetry that Jamie, who was working his stand at the Dunsborough markets when I called, had just sold the photo that appears here.
“People love it,” he says. “I hope I get a better one tomorrow.”
Taj deanno and what’s his face , talk about a bag full of self importance .Taj is just frothing to get some photos as it is becoming very obvious he misses being in the limelight ….shallow turd.
“rattle snake, rattle snake”
shhhshhhh…… a couple of turn offs further south. 2 of us during Bianca by ourselves.
Surfing: over hyped
Pretty Fucken over hearing about this north swell. And at 5 in the morning north injidup will be a zoo. I know crew that have been down there since Friday arvo waiting for it. But to fly in from east for a novelty wave? Would be easier to fly to the Goldy
no way man, I started driving across Friday morning, got the landcruiser loaded up with everything needed for roughing it, camping shower, fridge, tv etc. towing 2 skis and have got Darren flying over to operate one of em. got go-pro mounts every where and 2 follow-me drones. its going be epic. now if one of the locals can just me directions from margies please.
Get Darren to fly the plane.
And there’s the locals thinking they were safe from sponnos for a couple of weeks.
Faark me.
The glee club’s flying in to share in a rare event.
Show no fukkn mercy boys. Take no prisoners.
Yup, all power to the locals’ arms, and pestilence be upon the golden blow-ins.
My Grandfather, a WWII Vet, had this saying about his short stint of rest and relaxation time in Australia during the five years of carnage and destruction that he fought and lived through. “Australian birds have no song. And Australian girls have no virtue.” (thick Dutch accent).
May this rare bird sing for you all. And may the Australian girls teach you a virtue or two.
Were there particular virtues he was referring to? For example sloth, greed, gluttony etc? Or was he referring, in the oblique manner of the time, to their lack of chastity?
The latter I reckon. The prospect of death is a fucking motivator.
Sloth and greed are not virtues.
Yes. You are right. Virtues they are not. Sloth and greed are goals.
In America they are….
Your grandfather was horribly mistaken on both counts. Australian birds invented singing; they are the most intelligent (and aggressive) bird population on earth. And Australian girls have the virtue of not giving a fuck.
Then why is it not called the Sydney Bird House?
How aggressive does a Southern Cassowary have to be to eat fallen fruit? Violence of action like a Golden Eagle in Spain?
https://youtu.be/VklTs-Tid_I