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Surf Spot Characteristics |
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Surf Quality |
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| | experience | pros or kamikaze only... |
| | surf frequency | rarely break (5day/year) |
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Wave |
| type | reef-coral |
| | direction | right and left |
| | bottom | reef (coral,sharp rocks etc..) with sand |
| | power | - hollow
- powerful
- ledgey
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| | normal length | short (<50m) |
| | good day | short (<50m) |
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Tide, Swell and Wind |
| | swell direction | - NorthWest
- West
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| | wind direction | - NorthEast
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| | swell size | starts working at over 3.5m / 12ft and holds up to 5m / 16 ft and over |
| | tide position | all tides |
| | tide movement | rising and falling tides |
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Himalayas Access |
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Park and paddle out in river channel. |
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distance | take a car |
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walk | instant access (<5 mn) |
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easy to find? | easy to find |
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public access? | public access |
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special access | Don't know |
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dangers | - rips / undertow
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- sharks
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Additional Surfing Infos |
| | Himalayas is accross the river channel from Lani's.
I've heard it gets good on a West swell. With a short,hollow left, and, maybe a right, that closes out. As the name indicates, it's supposed to be surfed very large.
Park anywhere on the road. I'm sure guys tow the spot now, but it used to be no one out, most of the time, for a very good reason.
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My experience with the spot, other then checking it a million times, came one day when the Bay was going off, 15-20 feet, and it was supercrowded, due to prior to contest mania. You know, the top 45 surfers in the world are calling their shapers, to find out if the swell is big enough for the Eddie, so they bring their Bay boards to practice.
Looking for some serenity, and peace and quiet, I headed down from the Bay, and stopped to look at Himalayas, and Lani's. The wind was light, offshore, almost glassy, and Himalayas looked really fun. A 20 foot peak, with near sheet glass, just brushed by an offshore. I grabbed the carbon fiber board I'd borrowed from Ken Bradshaw, about 10'5" long, and jumped into the rip. The rip is comprised of three quanities of water. First, all the water that 20' Lani's is pushing in, second, the freshwater pouring off the cane fields, from the rain, that created the hole in the reef, and the channel in the first place, and third, the water being pushed in by 20 foot Himalayas. The rip took me flying out right to the peak at Himalayas, and, in fact, right INTO the PEAK. I had to paddle hard sideways to get out of the peak.
Then it dawned on me: Himalayas is a GIANT version of Kamis, on the other side of the rip at Sunset, but worse. The rip funnels right into the peak, and right over the reef. So, first it's IMPOSSIBLE to stay in the lineup, without exhausting yourself, fighting the 5-6 knot rip, and, second, if you get in position, you are facing one of the scariest drops in the islands.
The wave jacks, top to bottom, and, to throw more
crank into it, the rip runs straight up the face, adding another 5-6 knots you have to paddle over, and through, to get over the ledge. I tried getting into a couple waves, and couldn't get over the ledge. I kept getting ripped down the reef south, and, as I tried to catch waves, I would look down, see the right start to lineup, and then close out, in a horrible, doubled up peak. So,in other words, you have a giant wall, with a left that goes top to bottom, and, the right wall is really a top to bottom close out.
I did manage to get over the ledge, caught one giant wave, went left, and proned out, going right, so I made sure I made it back to the beach, not into the channel. |
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This is a tow-in spot, not a surf spot.
I don't know what the tow-in crowd is like, since I haven't been over to Hawaii since the tow-in craze took off.
Surfing this place by myself, pretty much all I could think of is first Tiger Sharks, since they come in all the time to feed on the turtles in the area, second, if I got caught inside, and my leash breaks, I'm going to have a very long swim, coming in maybe in Haliewa, since I would not be able to swim through the rip running along the beach, from
all the water coming in from the Himalayas wall. In other words, you get caught inside by a huge set, worked by about three waves, then you try and swim accross the rip. However, you get ripped back to the channel, and taken right back into the peak, for another thrashing. Your board ends up on Kaui.
The funniest part of the entire day was returning the board to Mr. Bradshaw, and his reaction when I told him where I went surfing. It's something I'm sure he's done in the past.... |
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comment by Kewalos, 2007-12-02 01:14:33