Huge Thursday

Outside Sunset Cliffs, photo by Ari Marsh

On Thursday, January 14, a massive W/NW swell delivered huge surf to the San Diego coastline, closing out the majority of spots.

Roving surf journalist, Ari Marsh, AKA Soul Rider, caught this moment when a brave, lone surfer sitting a good 1/4 mile offshore tapped into the source by taking off on one of the biggest waves of the day.

Note: The specks in the foreground are the other surfers who thought they were sitting on the far outside of the line-up of this particular Sunset Cliffs reef.

As for the surfer: this dude has cajones! While only select surfers even paddled out this day, he was the only one in a very small pack to even attempt to surf the outer most reef.