Swell allows The Right to live up to its name

While the weekend's swell hype seemed to have missed most Albany beaches, it delivered at one of the Great Southern's most wicked waves The Right.

The wave is one of the rarest, biggest and most dangerous waves in Australia and usually only breaks three or four days a year, but pumped for three straight days over the weekend.

Perth photographer Chris Gurney captured local and professional surfers taking on the beast all weekend.

"I haven't seen a swell that big for that long. It was really sustained and had heaps of energy," he said.

"It was pretty insane."

He recognised local guys Chris Ross, Chris Shanahan and Ben Rufus for always tackling the wave when it breaks.

"There was a good crew down there and it's always good to see the local guys who are down there every time it breaks," he said.

He said he's photographed waves around the world and the one in Denmark's backyard is at the top of his list.

"I go down there quite a bit but those three days were right up there," he said.

"It's got to be right up there in terms of intensity, hard to access and you've got to have a certain amount of skill to ride it."

Bureau of Meteorology issued warnings for the weekend which indicated the swells generated by a deep low well to the south of WA would peak over the weekend and remain large for several days.

A spokesman for the bureau said their buoys recorded peak swells above 5m at Cape Naturaliste and Albany reaching up to 5.7m.

Veteran surfer and local board shaper Adrian Shepherd said he had the opportunity over the weekend to watch some of the local surfers tackle The Right.

"I went out and watched The Right and that was pretty special to go out and see that," he said.

"A couple local boys scored out at The Right over three days.

He said they put in a total of 20 hours of big wave riding at the wave over the three days.

"The hype about the swell was mostly justified for them because they got to ride out there for three days which they've never had before," he said.