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Photographer Chris Peel on the July 8th Cloudbreak Swell. Forecast Drama, Raw Conditions, and What Photos Don't Capture

Surfer·Chris Dodds·2 months ago
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Anyone who has spent years looking at photos of perfect Cloudbreak can't help but picture themselves there. You tell yourself, if only I went to Fiji, I would get standup barrels. Easier said than done. The mechanics of Cloudbreak result in perfect-looking waves, but that doesn't make it easy to get inside the belly of the beast and make it out unscathed — especially if you wander down into the gnarly and shallow patch of reef at the end of the wave known as shishkabobs. These images from photographer Chris Peel on July 8th reveal that perfection, and we connected for the backstory on the day. Tell me about this day at Cloudbreak — when was it, and what were the forecast and conditions? This was the 8th of July. The swell had a fair bit of hype around it from pretty early on. At one stage it was showing on the charts as a possible XXL swell, so everyone had been watching it pretty closely.…

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