Most of the local crew were enjoying one of the best days ever at
Boatramp back at Margarets when this session went down,” explains Paul ‘Antman’ Paterson, the man you see charging in the photo above. “That left only a handful of local chargers along with Twiggy, Greg Long and Jamie Mitchell to paddle into a few at Cow Bombie.
“ESPN are documenting the big wave antics of these legends so I was just helping with the boat for filming and ski for safety. I didn’t even take a paddle-in board out there because I knew I wasn’t physically capable of paddling into a wave on that particular day. The offshore wind and rising tide made it extremely difficult to get down the face of those monsters.
I took a tow board though, and Twiggy whipped me into a few waves at first light while all the crew worked out how they were going to paddle into the chunks of ocean coming through.
Most of the crew that attempted it ended up getting blown off the back of the wave but Jamie Mitchell got under a few crazy ones, while Greg and Twiggy rode only a few carefully selected bombs.”
Photo: Jamie Scott