9.15am: JC: I finally make it to a decent shooting vantage where I can see Timo drop into his first wave. It is so windy I am not even sure I can shoot safely with the camera on the tripod and am literally battling to hold everything steady enough to shoot. To make matters worse my hands are freezing and numb. All the surrounding rocks are wet and slippery and I can just feel an accident on-the-cards in this wild, wintery weather. I am quite a long way from the van now and that tide looks like it is surging in. But when Timo snags the first one, all the parameters change. The wave is well over mast high, folding over top-to-bottom and even spitting spray out of the barrel as the energy of the water is unleashed. Wow that looked nuts! Time to focus on the photography and stop worrying about the freezing, icy winds and incoming tide. Are we insane? I think we might be!
