Better be in serious paddling and swimming condition!
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"I’m not gonna make any excuses–I’m going to stay on the beach with the bikini girls. But you guys, go get 'em!'
And, on a slightly tamer note…
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Agree! LOL! I didn’t think it is possible to surf waves like that with an open canoe.
This is more my style and speed:
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A gaggle of Dagger (Alchemy) kayaks having fun in textured water. Shorter RM kayaks definitely have a place in the ocean play venues.
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Heading on out,
through that breaking surf,
thems that might be giants
may as swell know soon they’re smurfs!
And ama’s gonna tell ya,
you’re double-iako up in arms,
and ihu wa’a view backwards
don’t ka’ele you under the sea’s charm.
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The (shared) monologue of one surf paddler on a “questionable” paddle out:
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Never saw waves that big on the south shore when I was there either.
Been a number of rescues in Hawaiian breaks recently, which I assume were on the north shore. But, it’s gotta be an unpleasant surprise for a tourist surfer looking for a laid back beginner/intermediate wave at Waikiki and find instead “killer” north shore type waves rolling in…
Kind of reminds me of my non-surfing (clueless) son vacationing at PR and tried to body board at Rincon on an overhead day. He got luckily trashed but not drowned. Should have suspected danger when he saw people largely staying on-shore while a few expert surfers were way out there beyond the impact zone. But his ignorance is typical of those who don’t deal with the ocean environment much.
Mahalo! (That my son came back alive.)
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If that was current this is Kona weather time. The trades , ENE, were light. Kona wind was often light but from the NW-west. Lately they’ve been having stormed that court stir things up. But I’ve been gone from there a long time.
The OC footage was from a week ago. Yup, each area has it’s own weather patterns that affect surf. For New England, this is my favorite time of year because we get and can rely (more) on the seasonal nor’easters to bring swells onto on our east facing coasts. Hurricane swells are much less frequent because the tracks diverge dramatically by the time the storms get this far north. The SE states, however, are much more consistently impacted by hurricane swells.
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Footage like this one seriously has my interest in downwind surf skiing piqued!
Think I am gonna take some lessons next year to expand my ocean play venues.
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