Photo Gallery: Big waves at the Wedge in Newport Beach

A surfer is thrown off his board while riding a wave at the Wedge in Newport Beach on Wednesday as large swells were hitting the beach from storms in the South Pacific.

A surfer walks up the beach with a broken board after riding a big wave at the Wedge in Newport Beach on Wednesday.

A surfer drops into a giant wave Wednesday at the Wedge in Newport Beach, where swells generated from storms in the South Pacific attracted surfers looking to challenge the big waves.