Southern Hemisphere winter is Tahiti Time. It was August, 2000, when Laird Hamilton rode a wave at Teahupoo that changed everyone’s idea of the word “rideable”. Then came August 2011, and the original ...
Photography by Gaetan Charlin, Leah Hahn, Anuanua Lucas, and Marcus Paladino. There’s been a lot of adjectives lavished on the amazing left reef outside Tahiti’s Passe Havaé over the past week or two.