Hurricane Katia Swell | Carolina Beach, NC | Surf Photographer

Hurricane Katia ran parallel to the eastcoast, sending all of the eastcoast waves while sparing us any hurricane conditions. Thursday was the day here, so after getting in a surf wednesday night I prepared to park it down at Sunskipper, Carolina Beach, NC for the day on thursday. Got down there with clean conditions in the morning, with the local guys getting barrel after barrel. When the winds kicked in, the afternoon session saw more performance surfing. Above is a video sequence from the dawn patrol session. Shane Burn got the best barrels I saw out there, as you’ll see in the video sequence. Below is the gallery I put together from thursday morning and afternoon. Click on any of the thumbnails to navigate through the images.

Surfing – Carolina Beach, NC – January 18, 2011

Had a some good waves a couple days ago. One of those days where all the conditions come together. Sunskipper was doing its thing. Some nice solid drainers coming through, with some dudes out there ripping as usual. Usually for swells like this I’ll just post up on the beach with the long lens to capture the surfing action. This time I wanted to get some nice lineup shots so I opted for the short lenses for a lot of the time. I posted a album of photos from this day on my (personal) Facebook page, but I thought I’d post some up on the blog. (its good for the search engines) Enjoy!

Shane Burn


Phil Goodrich

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