CaliforniaMama • Jun 20, 2013 6:44 pm
[SIZE=3]Shawn Dollar of Santa Cruz (surfer heaven), California, is the surfer in the [/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]photo. The place is Cortes Bank, California. The time is December 21, 2012.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Guinness World Records has logged this moment as the largest wave ever surfed via the [/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]traditional paddle-in method. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]The ride earned Shawn $30,000 at the 2013 Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards for winning both [/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]the Pacifico Paddle Award and the XXL Biggest Wave title.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Check out this video of Shawn describing the event of his life. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][youtube]FITBgDNo5QY[/youtube][/SIZE]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=2]Wow - it is hard for me to wrap my brain around that wave being 61-feet high. [/SIZE][/FONT]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Comic Sans MS]How high is that? I need to relate it to something tangible . . .[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=2][COLOR=blue]PS: How big/small is the font on your screen? On my old laptop, [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][COLOR=blue]this size came out a lot larger than it does on this borrowed laptop. [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][COLOR=blue](Just need to get a hard drive to get my life back . . .)[/COLOR][/SIZE]