Danielle and Earl

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Sam Lamiroy
The long awaited month of September is finally here, the month all surfers long for, heralding the end of the summer wave drought, and the start of the powerful autumn swell season. This year, bang on cue, the south west was flooded by some clean, lined up, 16second period swell, courtesy of a hurricane named Danielle. 

Strong, straight lines marched into the beaches and reefs, in some cases being too big and closing out across the bay.  Up in Perranporth a small group of locals including Sam Lamiroy, Andrew Griffin and Ben Skinner launched themselves into some heaving pits.  The photographers were out in force too, it seems like there's almost as many photographers as surfers these days, so expect to see this session in a few surf mags soon.

Ben Skinner
Although they generate this perfect swell, over in America the press follow these hurricanes with a sense of dread, fearing that they might come ashore and wreak havoc, like hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans in 2005.  This side of the pond we wait with baited breath for the next alphabetically named storm. 

As the swell drops from Danielle, and surfers retreat to their social networking sites to rave about how good it was, they'll also be closely watching the development of the next hurricane. Shortly on these shores we'll get to meet Earl and Fiona. Let's hope they're as perfect as Danielle.

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