12/22/2024
Two years ago I had front row seats to the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational and there were over 20,000 people. Marie and I camped out overnight. Thanks to my good friend Franco, who lives right next to Waimea, I had a parking spot in his garage and a place to shower and use the restroom. I grabbed a spot at 6:00 am on Saturday and we slept under the stars with thousands of people listening to the surf grow bigger and bigger until sunrise when they gave the green light. It was such an honor to shoot this event. Today the Eddie is on again and I can’t wait to see everyone’s photos. The waves are 30-35 feet right now. Here are just a few of the thousands of photos I took that day.