Raves & Rants . . from Penzance

The second day of the swell and it's 'not quite so big today', i.e. still pant-fillingly huge. There are only a few people on the planet that that will take this sort of ocean power on, and someone has already been Medivac-ed out. No details as yet. These videos were shot on a phone in the channel only minutes ago. Stills take a little longer to come out, probably by tomorrow morning, I'll update this page as they do, so keep checking back. Quiksilver highlights, Day Two Quiksilver put this together from the first day Surfline - amazing video here Stills from Day Two :  Great footage from Surfing Life Teahupoo Tahiti 13 05 2013 by 1ere-polynesie A beautiful shot from Tim McKenna. Alan Riou flying in Brazilian Pedro Scooby took a trip over the falls, and then probably a trip home. Laird on a beauty   Some amazing shots of yesterday here from Surfer Mag

There's such a lot of imagery and video coming out of Teahupoo, the massively challenging reef break in Tahiti, that I thought I'd keep adding things below as I find them. This is the biggest swell to show up since the Code Red swell of 2011, and the world's elite/ craziest big wave surfers have shown up to the Code Red II party. SurfLine's Fantastic crop of photos Wave of the Day Yesterday:   Mark Healy, pic by Ted Grambeau Raimana, pic by Shane Dorian Koa Rothman, pic by More photos from yesterday here: Teahupoo Photos In the video below you can see the green bottom of a boat getting caught out and flipped over the falls on the inside. Hopefully no injuries, but that would have been a nasty wipeout. Tomorrow is supposed to be even bigger, keep an eye on the Teahupoo Live Cam More photos of the scene here:  Teahupoo Code Red

It's that time of year again, the one where winter has ebbed slowly away, and the sun has finally decided to get his hat on , which, it turns out, is exactly the sort of hat designed to convince you that there's a veritable heatwave happening, right here, right now.  And so when I was asked if I wanted to go sea swimming last Thursday, of course I immediately said yes.  But then, I had to say yes because people always say yes when the person who's asking the question is Big Frank . If you followed that link to the website of Big Frank, a massive black Dutch guy whose strap line is  ' When you want to make sure you get your money quickly ', then you'll be pleased to know it wasn't (luckily) him asking.  Although obviously I would have had to, if he had asked. No, this was my neighbour Big Frank, from down the way. There is another Frank as well, you see, known to all as 'Frank', and Big Frank is, er, bigger than him. Mainly by dint of Frank bein