Words by John Streit. Photos by Shaun Devine, Justin Rienerth, Harrison Whitaker, Heather Bautista, Jill Thomas & Streit.
The passing of Hurricane Cristobal mirrored that of Hurricane Bertha almost identically. Both arrived in August to deliver shots of swell during an otherwise notoriously flat time of year. Both stayed comfortably offshore to spare life and property along the East Coast. And for the Mid-Atlantic Region, both swells arrived with hard northerly winds on day one followed by a light westerly breeze on day two. The storms differed in the raw power that Cristobal unleashed on the sandbars of the Outer Banks on both days. While Bertha was solid in her own right, her big brother just had that extra juice that translated to square, slab-like pits as far as the eye could see. The more sheltered shores of Virginia Beach and Sandbridge turned on with pristine peelers on Thursday morning, but the detonating lips of points south stole the show, as they usually do. Enjoy these images from the first-light and late-morning sessions from Thursday, August 28.
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