In Mullaghmore Sligo last week
Have you ever seen the gigantic waves off Mullaghmore Head in Sligo? well you should have seen the 50-foot monster that hit the head last week.
Our weather on the west of Ireland coast while wild and windy lends itself to some of the best surfing waves in the world. The majority of us would be content to sit back and appreciate nature at its worst, there were some adrenaline junkies that simply had to experience it first-hand.
Some of the world’s top surfers descended on Mullaghmore last Thursday to brave the conditions that resulted from an extreme weather system known as the “Viking Storm”, which has generated some of the largest waves off the northwest coast of Ireland in recent years.
A group of 16 surfers from Ireland, Britain, France, Hawaii, Brazil, South Africa and Australia took to the water accompanied by two rescue boats, while hundreds of spectators looked on from the Mullaghmore headland.
The group took advantage of waves in the region of 25-50 feet, some of the highest ever recorded in these parts, with Devon surfer Andrew Cotton catching the best of the lot, a 50-footer (15.24 metres) on a day that was described by Irish pro surfer Richie Fitzgerald as “very calculated madness”.
The wave caught by Cotton fell about five metres short of the biggest ever wave recorded in Ireland last December, but it’s still about the size of a five-storey building and watching Cotton surf it is a sight to behold.
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