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All the sun that shines

April 12, 2011

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It all started when I saw one of my photos posted by someone else on Magicseaweed. It was quite upsetting momentarily but it was all easily and quickly sorted by the chaps at the ‘weed’ (who didn’t want to get their asses sued) and I got a nice apology from a grom (who probably didn’t […]

Horsemen, apocalypse and catflaps

March 12, 2011

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As the four horsemen of the apocalypse saddle up and prepare to lay waste to our beautiful blue planet it is perhaps time to remind ourselves that not all waves travel at 500 mph and some are associated with joy rather than desolation. Sequence: Stuart Campbell out of the cat flap at Croyde last autumn. […]

I wandered lonely as a rogue wave

February 27, 2011

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It’s taken a while but I’ve finally found time to sort through the photos from last Sunday. A big clean swell and one of the lowest tides of the year combined to produce some epic waves in unusual places…. (Click on images for the bigger picture)   Oyster Falls put on a show And the […]

Tubular Swells

February 23, 2011

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That was a great film. I remember sitting in grom- like awe of the pictures flashing on a    makeshift screen in Braunton village hall with about 70 other surfers screaming and hooting at every barrel and big wave take-off. This was back in the seventies when surf news filtered through to the north Devon community […]