Watch: The “Session of a Lifetime” With Nate Florence and Friends at Cartoonish Cloudbreak
Unless you've been completely offline lately, you know that Cloudbreak went XXL on Tuesday. By all accounts, it was the biggest and cleanest swell in over a decade.
After a few days of mind melting morsels dropping on Instagram, now we're being served the full course.
In the first edit (above), Nate Florence's very good vlog brings us behind-the-scenes in a way only Florence can. "What a a dream session we are so fortunate!," Florence writes in the caption. "To be able to relax in barrels that big because conditions are so clean feels like a once in a lifetime moment! Thank you all for watching and coming along the ride! I still cant believe this went so good! I'll remember this day for the rest of my life and that incredible vision standing in the back of that tube."
In the second edit (below), Surfline serves up a different look at the day, which also includes insight into the storm that made it all happen. While they're the same same but different, both offer incredible viewing. "Surfing’s fundamentally about hope," writes Surfline. "There’s always a great day around the corner. The best wave of your life is out there somewhere, waiting for you to show up. Well, here’s a story about a day when those best ever waves showed up for pretty much everyone in the lineup. A powerful Southern Ocean storm and an incredibly promising forecast ignited that hope in hundreds of hearts. The hope pulled people from near and far toward one of the finest tropical reef breaks in the world. Some plane-hopped from the other side of the planet, others loaded up a tin boat with giant boards and puttered the 30 minutes out from Viti Levu, all watched and surfed the finest and most surreal waves to break anywhere on earth so far in 2024. Watch here as Benji Brand, Parker and Conner Coffin, Kohl Christensen, Soli Bailey, Nathan Florence, Ché Slatter, Laura Enever, Mick Davey, Billy Kemper, Mesa Kunabutu, Jai Glindeman, and Mark Visser feel their hope fulfilled — and Surfline forecasters Hugh McDowell and Kevin Wallis show and tell us how it happened."
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