This is the kind of perfection Im talking about. Here is a close-up example of the canvas. Notice the reflection of the lip on the face of the wave.

An Amazing February Shows Da Kine in 2009.     fotos by WK and Mo-town

After countless days of good surf, this was a day that out shined recent memory… and history.

Me looking for a good place to paddle-out.

This photo was taken past the rocks, way down on the far side of the sand-point.

My personal ‘photos of the year”.

PHOTO 1: Hmmm. I don't even know what to say. I was bummed that Mo, my friend who shot these photos, wasn't surfing. He hurt his neck pretty bad, and he was unable to surf this day. I have gotten some great images of him surfing in the past, and I didn't want him to feel obligated to shoot photos of me. I didn't expect him to take photos of me, but now I cant thank him enough. I never want to forget this day.

PHOTO 2: It had been raining all morning. It was overcast, and pretty dark out to be shooting photos. My friend Mo had never used my Camera, which is touchy at  best. No tri-pod. I know photographers that never would have tried shooting.  So, how did these photos even come out at all? Was it the perfect waves? Mo being attentive? My abilities?   I think it was mostly the perfect waves, because the ocean was in rare form.

PHOTO 3: There were many seconds spent behind the glass curtain, and more than one wave left me amazed I made it all the way through.

I think this place can produce some  of the most beautiful waves anywhere in the world. Maybe Im partial due to growing up here in Northern California, I dunno.  Some people hate surfing in 52 deg. water, but I don't mind…. there was no one out. Ha ha.

PHOTO 4: Driving for the end, and continually setting my line for speed was the way I was making these waves.

Unexplainable beauty.

I wasn't the only person out there. Here some unidentified surfer gets the best barrel he got all year, Im sure.

Here Santa Cruz surfer Omar “Etch” sets up another amazing barrel.

Omar is buried deep inside this really hollow section. He got shot out the end a little while later, after enjoying the view. ha.

Here my friend Jed pulls into a grinder.

Omar on a wave that looks more like some small wave in the South Pacific.

An artsy-fartsy photo I couldn't help but throw in. So pretty this day.

Jed again, weaving through the spinning barrels.

Jed edging into the side of a gleaming gem of perfection.