Category: Peru – Pico Alto

Intense Huge wave video as Greg Long Big Wave World Tour Champion 2012-2013, posted Wednesday March 27, 2013

by oldwaverider, posted in Big Wave Video & Photo Locations, California - Mavericks, Cortes Bank, Chile - Punta De Lobos, Lincoln City, Nelscot Reef, Oregon, Peru - Pico Alto

Greg Long Big Wave World Tour Champion 2012-2013, Excellent video, covering a wide variety in Venue.  Chile to Mavericks, to Nelscot Reef Oregon and More.

How the Waves were the last day of Tropical Storm Emily, on Sunday (see photo below), 3 Tropical Disturbances on the way, plus Surf Report Thursday afternoon (at 4:00 Pm) and Surf Forecast for Cape Canaveral n Cocoa Beach (posted August 11, 2011)

by oldwaverider, posted in A summary of How the Waves were, Big Wave Video & Photo Locations, Brevard Surf Predictions Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach, Brevard Surfing Photos - general swells, Miscellaneous Videos, galleries, etc., Peru - Pico Alto

Sunday mid-morning photo in Satellite Beach, August 7 2011. Taken by a friend, Mike Melito
Sunday mid-morning photo in Satellite Beach, August 7 2011. Taken by a friend, Mike Melito

The last day of Emily was Sunday (4 great days, nothing huge but a few head high sets on the drop), and it was a great day in Satellite at RC’s and Hightowers !  I surfed the morning which was stomach high and perfect glass, but it kicked up to chest high as the tide brought in more water.

If you surfed Emily in Cocoa Beach or the Cape, you probably missed the best size because of the angle of the swell.  Also, when the winds were mostly SSW, the only place to surf that is South of Minuteman Causeway, and for the size south of the Streets from 2nd light or maybe O Club and South.  Great surf, 4 days of it!

This is the official Chasing Monsters trailer video.  The link to the 2010 Pico Alto contest is below at the Chasing Monsters website.  As shown today on Magicseaweed.com the Pico Alto in Peru is on.  Quote “the world’s top big wave crazies will compete at the Billabong Pico Alto 2011– Copa Burn”.  If you want to see last year’s video on the Pico Alto 2010, check out the video at the ChasingMonsters.com website, and as of today it is the 4rth video to scroll down to.

Chasing Monsters Teaser from IronFistMedia on Vimeo.

Waves coming, maybe ! Upcoming low pressure system swell headed our way!  The models show that it hits Wednesday and keeps rolling for 3 plus days.  Don’t know when we will half offshore winds, nor am I 100% sure the swell will hit, but the models show a nice SE swell in the 3 to 4 foot range with a high period of 11 or 12 seconds, so it’s definitely ground swell.

Friday morning, August 12 2011, 3 Tropical Disturbances being tracked from Africa, headed our way, 2 of which have a 40% chance of becoming a Hurricane within 48 hours, compliments of Stormpulse.com
Friday morning, August 12 2011, 3 Tropical Disturbances being tracked from Africa, headed our way, 2 of which have a 40% chance of becoming a Hurricane within 48 hours, compliments of Stormpulse.com

FRIDAY MORNING UPDATE OF YESTERDAYS POST ON TROPICAL DISTURBANCES! We have 2 each 40% Trop. Disturbances and one 20% that have a chance of becoming a Cyclone (Hurricane, yeah I know you know 🙂 , all three came from our normal storm birthing ground, that of the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa.  The image is compliments of Stormpulse.com my favorite hurricane tracker site.

We’ll keep ya posted.

NOTE:  JOHNSON AVENUE SURFERS will be moving to a new server in the next month and the URL will be johnsonavenuesurfers.com instead of j-avenue-surfers.com  (we were gonna keep it low key, but we wanna give it more exposure and reach)

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