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A surfer rides a tall wave during the opening ceremony of the Mavericks Surf Contest, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 in Half Moon Bay, Calif. The surf contest attracts the world's best big wave riders who are waiting for ultimate conditions that can bring up to 50 foot waves to the Half Moon Bay location off Pillar Point Harbor. -
Surfers ride tall waves during the opening ceremony of the Mavericks Surf Contest, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 in Half Moon Bay, Calif. The surf contest attracts the world's best big wave riders who are waiting for ultimate conditions that can bring up to 50 foot waves to the Half Moon Bay location off Pillar Point Harbor. -
Spectators watch big wave riders from a bluff during the opening ceremony of the Mavericks Surf contest, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 in Half Moon Bay, Calif. The surf contest attracts the world's best big wave riders who are waiting for ultimate conditions that can bring up to 50 foot waves to the Half Moon Bay location off Pillar Point Harbor. -
Surfers ride tall waves during the opening ceremony of the Mavericks Surf Contest, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 in Half Moon Bay, Calif. The surf contest attracts the world's best big wave riders who are waiting for ultimate conditions that can bring up to 50 foot waves to the Half Moon Bay location off Pillar Point Harbor. -
A film crew tries to get footage of big wave surfers from a helicopter during the opening ceremony of the Mavericks Surf Contest, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 in Half Moon Bay, Calif. The surf contest attracts the world's best big wave riders who are waiting for ultimate conditions that can bring up to 50 foot waves to the Half Moon Bay location off Pillar Point Harbor. -
Young surfers participate in the opening ceremony of the Mavericks Surf Contest, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 in Half Moon Bay, Calif. The surf contest attracts the world's best big wave riders who are waiting for ultimate conditions that can bring up to 50 foot waves to the Half Moon Bay location off Pillar Point Harbor. -
A man surfs a wave at sunset Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012, in San Diego, as larger surf begins to arrive. Large waves began to arrive late Thursday, as the area braces for high surf Friday. -
A surfer breaks through the back of a wave Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012, in San Diego as larger surf begins to arrive. Large waves began to arrive late Thursday, as the area braces for high surf Friday. -
A surfer races with the curl of a glistening wave at Carlsbad State Beach on Jan. 6, 2012. Surfers said that by mid-day the rideable surf was 10+ feet high. -
A surfer paddles for a wave shortly before sunset Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012, in San Diego as larger surf begins to arrive. Large waves began to arrive late Thursday, as the area braces for high surf Friday. -
A large wave breaks behind a surfer just south of the Huntington Beach Pier, Friday Jan. 6, 2012 in Huntington Beach, Calif. High surf will pound Southern California and the Central Coast into the weekend with breakers topping a dozen feet in some places. -
In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, surf breaks at the Bonzai Pipeline on the north shore of Oahu. The National Weather Service has issued a high surf warning as giant surf was expected to hit the north and west shores of most of the Hawaiian Islands through Wednesday. Surf heights will be 25 to 35 feet along north shores and 15 to 25 feet along west shores of Niihau, Oahu, Molokai, and Maui. -
A surfer wipes out on the waves at Will Rogers State Beach in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles just before sunset as high surf pounds beaches in Southern California and the Central Coast Friday, Jan. 6, 2011. The high surf is expected to continue into the weekend with breakers topping a dozen feet in some places. -
A surfer looses his board as he sails over the high surf at sunset Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 in Encinitas, Calif. Surfers took advantage of the summer like weather and high surf hitting the Southern California coast. -
A surfer sails over the high surf at sunset Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 in Encinitas, Calif. Surfers took advantage of the summer like weather and high surf hitting the Southern California coast. -
A paddle border and a surfer wait on a new set waves as the sun sets at Swami's beach Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 in Encinitas, Calif. Summer like weather and high surf attracted numerous surfers. -
Two surfers check the sunset as they walk the beach Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 in Encinitas, Calif. Summer like weather and a high surf attracted crowds to beaches in the San Diego area. -
A paddle border and a surfer wait on a new set waves as the sun sets at Swami's beach Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 in Encinitas, Calif. Summer like weather and high surf attracted numerous surfers. -
A surfer takes advantage of summer like weather and a high surf as he maneuvers through waves as the sun sets Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 in Encinitas, Calif. -
Mark Rightmire Orange County Register A surfer bails off his board while riding a large wave just south of the Huntington Beach pier on Friday.
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