Right now the locals out on the North Shore of Oahu are getting really anxious for the winter wave season to arrive. Things have been a little weird up on the North Shore lately. I surfed Rocky Point and Log Cabins in overhead surf the past few days, when I should have been snorkeling at Sharks Cove in lake-like conditions. We’ve had some way out-of-season north swells hitting the island now for the past couple weeks, with more in store for next week. Surfnewsnetwork.com is claiming an 8-12 foot (Hawaiian scale) swell for this Friday, September 25th. That could mean 10-20 foot wave faces…in September!!! Waimea Bay even showed a little bit of life a couple weeks ago.
The question I keep hearing around here is, “if the waves are this big now, what’s going to happen this winter?” The big wave surfing Mecca of the world might be trying to tell us something about this upcoming season. It’s a pretty exciting time to be here catching these early swells before the rest of the surfing world arrives in mid-November.
Check out some highlights from last season:
I like this one even better:
