Margaret River Monster Wave

Interestingly enough just after having posted about Margaret River on this blog, I check the Age newspaper this morning and what do I see? A picture of a surfer riding a huge wave near Margaret River:

There’s big, and then there’s BIG.

The search for the largest wave ridden in Australia and New Zealand waters between June and February is over, but the winner of the Oakley/ASL Big Wave Awards won’t be announced until Wednesday night in Bondi.

Usually there’s a clear-cut winner, but so many bombs have been ridden over the qualification period that the identity of the victor will remain a mystery until the envelope is ripped open and the name read out.

West Australian Jake Paterson’s entry from a session at Cow Bombie, north of Margaret River, is pictured.

“It was fun,” Paterson said.

Fun, eh? Fun is lying in a hammock. Fun is being hand-fed grapes. Fun is looking at pictures of Jake Paterson on this monster, but not necessarily being Jake Paterson on this monster; out-of-this-world adrenaline rush.

It would be incredible if that wave doesn’t win this contest. That thing is absolutely gigantic.