There’s a reason that Australians generally rip. There are so many wave options in a country that’s only slightly smaller than the United States. In fact, it’s the sixth largest country in the world, in terms of landmass, and the smallest continent. So it’s easy to imagine waves we’ve never heard of there with its miles and miles of coastline. Waves like this one referred to by surf filmmaker Tim Bonython as the “Aussie Pipeline.”
“Back in Australia continuing my endless winter,” he wrote. “The Aussie autumn has finally provided us a decent south swell that came off the back of a big storm that brewed off Tasmania. So me and my buddy Brad Whittaker headed out at first light to get some big Pipeline-like barrels in a session that only lasted three hours.”
The wave itself has a number of names. Put simply, it’s just a really good left-hand barrel. Let’s just say it’s somewhere on the South Coast. And leave it at that.
