SUP & Surfing birthday waves for Dave Devlin

My good Aussie mates Dave Devlin and Bob Striper were down visiting Okinawa for 5 days from mainland Japan to chase waves and boy did they do some chasing. Sometimes driving 200km in a day riding various spots. These boys have some energy. For Dave's 49th birthday I went along with him and suggested a couple of spots to try out. Although it was low tide he was charging some good size waves despite the fact there was just a few inches between the bottom of the wave and the sharp reef below.

Dave at the first spot. Birthday chargin!

 Danny Melhado's guest Erin all smiles as he gets a nice ride

 James joins the fun with his new custom Australian flag board

from One of Wills

 An F22 Raptor flying over to check the surf

 Dan the man Melhado rips it up as always

But gets a little camera shy sometimes

James straight from the warm Aussie waters to the colder conditions in Okinawa

still knows how to shred it. 

 Dave pops a wheelie

Happy birthday mate!

Fun Sunabe morning waves

It's no secret Sunabe Seawall is the most popular surf spot in Okinawa and for good reason. It's long and theres plenty of room for a lot of surfers on its various breaks. It has great easy access, good consistent waves and very close to the shore which makes it great for the on lookers and photographers. On a good day you will find a few hundred surfers out there having fun. What amazes me most is the talent of some of the young kids out there ripping it up like Eri above. 

Here are a series of shots from just one busy sunday early morning. 

One busy section

A huge panorama made from about 8 images stitched in Photoshop. 

Nice dismount

A young grom ripping it up

A nice little tube

Another young girl tearing it up

The kids can rip!

All smiles 

Beautiful little curl

Go for launch

Nice little left hander

All shot with the Canon 1DmkIV and 300mm f2.8L lens apart from the panorama rainbow shot which I made with a series of photos stitched together in Photoshop with the 40mm f2.8 STM pancake lens. 

Okinawa surfing today morning session

Some nice size out there today up to about head and a half high around my area. 

Sometimes ya just got to go over the falls

Tucking under the lip

Danny Melhado pushes through

Yeah baby!

Danny finds the tubes every time.

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Night Surfing

Blue waves!

Got out to shoot my 2nd night surfing session last night. Got my camera settings dialed in a bit better this time although still plenty tricky to shoot! 

Here's some of the action that went down. 

HaiSaiNight Fabian pulls an epic ollie over a bodyboarder to 

avoid cutting him in half! Well done mate!

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Full resolution images available for purchase. If you were here but photos not posted contact me. I have tons more from this session.