Supertubes Surf Guide

Supertubes Surf Guide

This place was named before people started riding crazy barrels like Teahupo’o or even G-Land, so its moniker seems kind of quaint these days. It’s a pit, for sure, but it’s not heavy by modern standards. Having said that, though, you wouldn't want to paddle out unless you were of at least intermediate ability. If you don't make the drop, you're going to be slammed onto a fairly shallow rock bottom. The best place to check it is from the small dirt car park halfway down the hill on Yallingup Beach Rd. It’s not a great view – you're looking at it from above and slightly behind. Even when it’s cranking it can look to passers-by like a bit of white water washing over a shallow rock shelf, but a trained eye will pick up how well its one quick barrel section is working, and whether there’s enough sand in the channel for a post-shack cuttie on the shoulder. This break scored a long section in Taj Burrow’s Fair Bits video, where he was towed into it and, instead of hunting the pit, launched himself over the lip into some of the biggest airs of his life. The hippies who named this break back before Taj was born would have freaked out.