Todos Santos in January 2012

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TJ on the inside bowl

Bryce, Jordan, and I took a day trip down to Isla Todos Santos for the first swell of the sleepy big wave season. Since there were 3 of us, we decided to take a panga out from the harbor instead of driving our jet ski out from the Coral. The night before I got ahold of our family friend, Rey, a commercial fisherman from Isla Natividad who lives in Ensenada in the off season, to find a panga for the next day. Since it was the first swell of the season, I knew it was going to be very crowded.

TJ and Bryce getting in the panga

Bryce and Jordan

The wave as we pull up

So the next morning we woke up leisurely and buddy car-ed down to the harbor with friend/ photographer, Rob Keith. Since the swell wasn’t going to peak until the afternoon, or so we thought, we ate breakfast at Victors in Ensenada, and made our way out to the island around 10 am.

After the 45 minute ride out to the island, we had a feeling there was going to be size due to the large open ocean swells in the channel. As we pulled around the corner we saw a couple big waves come through and got stoked.

TJ hopping in the water

A view of the island

Jaime's First Wave

Derek Dunfee

Bryce getting cleaned up and Jason Murray going in with the ski

Paddling back out

Bryce on a good one

TJ at the end of a big one

After riding a couple good waves and taking a couple on the head, Jordan, Bryce, and I returned to the boat with Jaime Mitchell for some lunch. After resting up Jaime decided to go back out for a couple more, since he was there shooting with Jason Murray. At that time we packed it up and headed back to the harbor.

End of the day Opaleye

Another great day out at Killers!

Media:

1. http://www.surfermag.com/photos/pacific-gauntlet/#135fefed2a

SurferMag.com

2. http://www.surfline.com/surflinetv/primetime/todos-santos-paddle-session_64777

Surfline Video

3. http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/big-nw-swell-hits-mexico_64780/

Surfline Photo- Slide # 16

4. http://blog.swell.com/check-it/todos-santos-paddle-session/

 

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