By Jason Polakow
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For more than 30 years, one of the world's best surf breaks (Cloud Break) has been controlled by a small island within the Fijian chain, until now! Only those that could afford to pay the exuberant prices, dictated by the island owners, had the privilege to surf at this amazing wave.
Protests from both national and international groups have since forced the expulsion of this sanction allowing everyone the chance to experience this iconic wave.
I had been tow surfing another huge swell in Tahiti when I heard of the swell heading towards Fiji.
(fyi: the first half of the VIDEO - link below- is about this great surf session in Teahupoo.)
E-mails started pouring in asking if I had seen the size of the storm heading past SE Australia. Earlier that month I had missed a huge swell that hit Fiji due to a JP / NP dealer meeting in France, so there was no way I was going to miss another epic swell.
These swells are very rare, so to get two large systems within one season was nothing short of a miracle.
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