Massive tubes at Cloudbreak

I came across this recent session at Cloudbreak, in Fiji, where guys were going for broke on massive 3rd reef bombs!

A crew of Oz chargers arrived and were paddling it on relatively short boards. Check out the first wipe out and the last wave - absolutely nuts!

Cloudbreak September 2010 from Surfing Life on Vimeo.

There were a much larger contingent of riders there that day and Surfline have this photo slide show of the day.

http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/huge-monday---third-reef-cloudbreak-comes-alive-for-big-wave-barrel-fest-fiji-style_47849/

Cloudbreak was once the domain of rich US and Oz surfers, as it was a private Island and could only be surfed by the paying guests. This has all changed recently as the new government of Fiji have decided that in order to boost surf tourism, there can be no private waves!Not sure if you want 20ft tubes? haha