I wasn’t there this past weekend for the big surf championship. I was nearby on a beautiful section of the coast a bit further south. I saw really big waves. I saw surfers. But I didn’t see Mavericks. (My photos are scheduled show up here in early February, though you can see a preview at my Flickr and Photo.net galleries now.) Jim Goldstein did photograph Mavericks, from all evidence from very close to the action, and he has posted a first set of images.