Teahupo’o didn’t steal all the waves from the rest of the world. Take Snapper Rocks, for example. Photo: YouTube//Screenshot
Right now, the world is staring at Tahiti. It’s the Olympics, after all, and Gabriel Medina did something that captured everyone’s eyes. But just because Teahupo’o was going off doesn’t mean that the rest of the world’s waves stopped. And on Wednesday, July 31, a southern low lit up Queensland and Snapper Rocks.
“The swell settled in overnight,” wrote Surf Days on YouTube. “Everyone skipped work and Snapper Rocks was doing its thing again. They were hard to get into and some ski step offs were going down.”
Snapper Rocks is pretty tough to beat in terms of wave quality when it’s on. It’s too bad, though, that it just so happens to be one of the world’s best waves in one of the most surfer-filled nations on Earth, because when it gets good, it gets really, really crowded. Not just crowded with surfers who miss waves and blow take offs, either. Crowded with surfers who can surf. But the juice, if you’re to ask any of them, is worth the squeeze.
