- Toes, 2:30PM-4PM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash.
- By myself, alone for 30 minutes and then 3 other people out
- Knee- to wait-high, choppy-ish, not very consistent, but still some waves coming through even though it was flat everywhere on the South shore
- Caught 10+ waves, with several nice lefts, suprisingly. Managed to cross-step a few times.
- Toes, 2PM-3:30PM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash.
- By myself, alone for 30 minutes and then one guy with a younger kids he was pushing into waves for the rest of the session.
- Knee- to wait-high, consistent-ish, better than yesterday because less windy.
- Caught 10+ waves, with a several nice lefts, on which I keptr trying to walk to the board consistently
- Toes, 2PM-3:30PM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash.
- By myself, about 4-5 people out initiall and then up to 20 (but I stayed i the Hawaii Kai side, where it was only a few of us)
- Waist-high, clean but not very consistent lines
- Caught about 10-12 waves, with nothin really good (quick close-outs on the inside)
- Really shallow today. One guy stepped on wana. At the end of a ride, I sat back down on the board, and both my feet hit the reef!
- Knee- to wait-high, consistent-ish, better than yesterday because less windy.
- Toes, 2:30PM-4PM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash.
- By myself, from 2 to 5 people out
- Knee-high+, not very consistent, light winds, overcast and incredibly cold
- Caught 20+ waves, with a couple of waist-high ones that were ok
- Toes, 3PM-4:30PM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez.
- By myself, up to 10 people out include Kawika and his daughter
- Waist-high, with a couple of bigger sets, consistent-ish.
- Caught about 15 waves, with two pretty nice ones that were fast-ish and lined-up
- Toes, 3PM-4:30PM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez.
- By myself, up to 10 people out include Kawika and his daughter
- Waist-high, with a couple of bigger sets, consistent-ish.
- Flies, 1PM-2:30PM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash
- By myself, bobody out
- Waist-high, horrible due to on-shore winds and cross-swell with wrap, not consistent
- Caught 2 waves and 10 non-waves
- Was just a good excuse for a workout
- Toes, 1:30PM-3PM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash
- By myself, with nodary, bobody out (one windsurfer toward the end)
- Waist-high+, windy and odd, but a few sets coming through including a couple a chest-high ones on the outside
- Caught 2-3 nice lefts, the rest were just short rides
- Flies, 7:30AM-9:30AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- With Nodari and Phil, between 4 and 8 other people out
- Waist- to head-high, consistent-ish but a bit wobbty and oddly shaped. Still nice sets coming through.
- Caught about 15 waves, with 3-4 really, really good rights. Surprising February swell I guess.
- Flies, 3:30PM-5PM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself, up to 6-7 other people out include Jim and Jackie
- Waist- to chest-high, very inconsistent due in part to high tide
- Caught 3 waves, with only the first one decent.
- Flies, 8AM-9AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself, up to 4-5 other people out
- Waist- to chest-high, pretty inconsistent, but some sets coming by, especially early in the session
- Caught 5-6 waves, with only the first two decent
- One big set came through, which I took on the head of course due to being inside
- Toes, 1PM-2:30PM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash
- By myself, alone for 1 hour and then one of the regulars out
- Waist- to chest-high, consistent, moderate winds
- Caught ~15 waves, with 3 or 4 great lefts with nice open walls
- Lost my board about halfway through the session, at which point I put my leash on, as I had take it with me stuck in my rashguard!
- Flies, 7AM-8:30AM
- On my 9'2'' Morgan
- By myself, about 15 people out at first and 3-4 at the end
- Waist- to chest-high, very inconsistent, sets not as big as yesterday, in spite of higher expectations
- Caught 6-7 waves, with a couple of nice one, especially one toward the end
- Flies, 1PM-2:15PM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash
- By myself, 3 other people out and one windsurfer
- Waist-high+, very inconsistent, windy
- Caught 3-4 waves, with only one decent left
- Sort of lost my board on one wave, but managed to hold on to it enough that I only had to swim about 10 yards
- Flies, 7:30AM-9AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash
- By myself, 10+ other people out but mostly foilers on the inside
- Waist-high+, somewhat consistent, perfectly glassy
- Caught about 20 waves, with 2-3 really nice rights. On the best wave of the day a beginner dropped in on me and it got a bit dicey due to not having a leash and a bunch of foilers on the inside, but luckily I managed.
- Didn't have a leash because I left it in the trunk by mistake, and when I got to the beach I was too lazy to go back to the car.
- Flies, 7:30AM-8:30AM
- On my 9'2'' Morgan
- By myself, 10+ other people out including Val. Mostly foilers and shortboarders.
- Waist-high+, totally inconsistent, very light winds
- Caught about 6 waves, 5 of them in the first 1/2 hour. Ended up paddling back in without riding a wave!
- Toes, 3PM-5:30PM
- On my 9'2'' Morgan
- With Ryan and Lambert, 1-2 other people out at the beginning and 20+ at the end
- Waist-high+, somewhat consistent, almost no wind
- Caught about 15 waves, with one very good left.
- Super long, exhausting session in almost glassy conditions!
- Flies, 8AM-9:30AM
- On my 9'2'' Morgan
- By myself, 1 other longboarder out, a few foilers on the inside
- Waist-high+, not consistent at all, glassy
- Caught 5-6 waves, with a crazy lull in the middle of the session. One of these was an absolutely beautiful right, so it was all worth it in the end
- Flies, 7:30AM-9AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash
- By myself. Alone for 1h and then 2-3 people out.
- Waist-high, consistent-ish, glassy
- Caught something like 20 waves, with a couple of fun rights
- Really good session, with nobody out, before supposedly the first real swell of the summer tomorrow, when it will likely be a zoo
- Flies, 1:30PM-3PM
- On my 9'2'' Morgan
- By myself. between 5 and 15 people out, including Tracy at the beginning and Nick and Nick (Saw Eric briefly on the shore who was done with his session)
- waist-high+, very inconsistent and killed by the rising tide
- Caught 5-6 waves, nothing good, and people dropping on me on most of them... Must have paddled like crazy for 20 waves that I didn't catch.
- Flies, 7:30AM-9AM
- On my 9'2'' Morgan
- By myself. Between 5 and 10 other people out including Val, Marshall, and Nicolas
- waist-high+, consistent-ish but a bit weak due to the tide
- Caught about 10 waves, with 2-3 pretty nice rights
- Big turtle on the inside
- Flies, 7:30AM-9AM
- On my 9'2'' Morgan
- By myself. Between 4 and 10 other people out.
- waist- to head-high, consistent-ish but really wonky and weird, with only a few open waves
- Caught about 8 waves, with 2 nice open rights, which were around the waist- to chest-high range.
- Flies, 7AM-8:45AM
- On my 9'2'' Morgan
- By myself. Between 4 and 15 people out, including Nico.
- waist- to chest-high, not very consistent and a bit weird. light winds. less size than yesterday, but better shape. Still pretty hard to get into.
- Caught about 6 waves, with 2 nice open rights. I fell on a steep-ish take-off on one of the best waves of the day, which was pretty lame.
- Threes, 8AM-9AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself. 2 people out at first and the alone for 45 minutes
- waist-high, very inconsistent, windy, and weak.
- Paddled out from the Kaiser parking lot. There were 2 people out and they went in almost immediatly. I caught 3-4 waves, and then paddled back to Kaiser, where I caught one wave in.
- Very few waves, but Super good workout though
- Flies, 8AM-9:45AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash
- By myself. Up to 5-6 other people out including Takao.
- waist-high+, not super consistent, super glassy and clean until the last 1/2 hour that got a bit messy/mixed up.
- Caught about 10 waves, with most of them pretty fun because so clean
- Lost my board at the end of a ride after cross-stepping back to the tail. Had to swim about 50 yards to get it.
- Flies, 7:30AM-9AM
- On my 9'2'' Morgan
- By myself. Up to 20 people out including Takao and Nico.
- waist- to chest-high, somewhat consistent, light winds
- Caught about 10 waves, with several really fun one and an absolutely outstanding one on wich Nico let me go because he was going left (I owe him big time). One of those great Flies waves that is always at the edge of closing out but doesn't.
- Flies, 8:45AM-9:30AM
- On my 9'2'' Morgan
- By myself. Up to 25 people out including Takao, Nico, Jackie.
- waist-high, not very consistent, light winds
- Very weak/slow, especially since the forecast said it would be bigger than yesterday
- Caught only 3 waves as I opted to sit on the outside a lot
- Flies, 9AM-10AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself. Up to 20 people out including Takao and Nico.
- waist-high+, consistent-ish, moderate winds making the waves sort of junky
- Caught about 15 waves, with a couple of decent rights just under the chest-high range
- Flies, 7:45AM-9AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash at first
- By myself. Up to 10 people out including Chris.
- waist-high+, consistent-ish, light winds
- Caught about 6-7 waves, with the first wave being by far the best one, in the chest-high range.
- Flies, 7AM-9AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself. Up to 10 people out including Takao and Nico.
- waist- to chest-high, not very consistent, light winds
- Caught about 10 waves, with 3-4 really fun rights that were one the cusp of closing out but held.
- Flies, 7AM-9AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself. Up to 10 people out, but only Brad and Chris at the end (and a few foilers inside)
- waist- to head-high, consistent-ish, light winds
- Caught about 15 waves, with 4-5 really fun ones. Quite a few peaks here and there today.
- Flies, 8AM-9:30AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash at first
- By myself. Up to 2-3 people out on the outside and 10+ foilers on the inside
- waist- to chest-high, consistent-ish, light winds
- Caught about 15 waves, with many super fun ones with fun drops and nice walls. A few close-outs, but for the most part super fun
- after about 30 min I was the only non-foiler out, sitting by myself on the outside, and catching the bigger ones with nobody within 50 yards of me on the take-off. Not sure whether that's considered wave-hogging, with all the foilers on the insdie. Hopefully not. With all the foilers inside, it constantly felt like I was too far out... but in fact I was exactly on the peak.
- Flies, 8:30AM-9:30AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash
- By myself. Up to 4-5 people out
- knee- to waist-high, weak, inconsistent, moderate to strong winds
- Caught about 8 waves, with a couple of "decent" rights considering the conditions. Today was more of an excuse to go paddling out than anything else.
- Baby Haleiwa, 4PM-6:30PM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- With Ryan, Lambert, and Dylan. Up to 8-10 other people out
- knee- to waist-high, consistent, light winds
- Caught about 20 waves. First time at that spot. I found the wave a bit challenging in a way. Very shallow. But fun nonetheless.
- Flies, 8AM-11AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself. Up to ~10 people out including Garry and Takao, and later Jim and Jackie.
- waist- to head-high, consistent-ish, getting windier as time went on.
- Caught 20-25 waves, with at least 5 great rights that stood up nicely and stayed open all the way in. The swell wasn't supposed to hit until tomorrow really, but the forerunners today were pretty great.
- Flies, 8AM-10AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself. Up to ~15 people out including Takao, and later Amy.
- waist- to head-high, relatively consistent at first, and less so as the tide came in, also getting windier and messier.
- Caught about 15 waves, with 2-3 absolutely outstanding rights early on in the session before conditions started to deteriorate.
- Flies, 7:30AM-9:30AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself. Up to ~15 people out including Takao, Nico, Phil.
- waist- to chest-high, not very consistent and a bit weak, light winds
- Caught about 20 waves, with 2-3 good rights
- Walking out of the water, there was a white-tip shark abandonned by a fisherman by the side of the stairs, being eaten by flies and crabs
- Flies, 7:30AM-9:30AM
- On my 9'2'' Morgan
- By myself. Up to ~15 people out
- waist- to chest-high, not consistent at all, and hard to get into waves (should have taken by 9'6''), light winds.
- Caught about 12 waves, with a couple of decent ones, but felt tired and out of sorts today...
- Flies, 8AM-9:15AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- by myself. Up to ~15 people out including Nick, Ben
- Chest- to Head-high+, consistent-ish, glassy.
- Caught about 8 waves, with two absolutely outstanding rights. On the second one I told Nick to go, but he wouldn't so I did a somewhat late drop and had an awesome ride. The first one was just plain beautiful and fast. Got very lucky to be in the right spot for the two best waves of the morning, or at least of this short session.
- Flies, 8AM-9:30AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash
- By myself. Up to ~6 people out.
- waist-high, weak and slow due to ride, light winds.
- Caught about 10 waves, with a couple of reasonably fun rights.
- Flies, 8AM-9:30AM
- By myself. Up to ~10 people out.
- Waist- to chest-high+, light winds, consistent-ish
- Caught about 10 waves, with many fun ones that stayes mostly open. Was the only one sitting outside, which was weird.
- Flies, 8AM-10:00AM
- By myself, up to ~20 people out, including Phil (who later broke his board in half from what I heard!)
- Chest- to head-high+, light winds, relatively consistent
- Caught about 15 wasves, with 4-5 reall fun rights. On a bigger wave this girl dropped in on me and fell right away, which wasn't great.
- Flies, 8AM-9:30AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez.
- By myself. Up to ~15 people out.
- Waist- to chest-high+, high-ish tide and pretty windy, but still some waves coming through
- Caught about 10 waves, with a couple of bigger fun rights that held up for a bit. Several close-outs though.
- Flies, 9AM-10:15AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez.
- By myself. Up to ~10 people out include Takao.
- Waist- to chest-high+, slow due to tide and getting windier as time went on.
- Caught about 5 waves, a few of them fun and just at the edge of closing out.
- A few bigger set came through (overhead) but closed out all the way across. It was strange today, with some size, but somewhat slow as well. Also, due to the angle, waves were breaking way more towrad Kewalo than usual. Odd session overall.
- Big turtle on the outside
- Flies, 8AM-10AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez.
- By myself. Up to ~10 people out.
- chest- to head-high+, very slow and oddly shaped, extremely difficult to get into waves that would then close out. Light winds.
- Caught about 6 waves with only 2 that stayed open for a couple of sections. Good work out paddling back out after a couple of close-out take-offs, due to waves breaking all over the place.
- Flies, 8AM-10AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez.
- By myself. Between 4 and 10 people out, including Takao, Marshall, Val, and Amy.
- waist- to chest-high, better shaped than yesterday, some long waits, rights closing out quite a bit but not as bad as yesterday.
- Caught 20+ waves, with a few nice rights early on in the session.
- Flies, 2PM-3PM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash
- By myself. Alone for most of the session, one shorboarder at the end.
- waist-high+, very slow and inconsistent due to high tide, but a few forerunners from incoming swell, light to moderate winds.
- Caught 6 waves, with 2 of them surprisingly decent.
- Flies, 7:30AM-9AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself. Up to 15 people out, mostly foilers.
- waist-high, not consistent, a bit choppy due to moderate winds.
- Caught about 10 waves, with a couple of decent-ish ones.
- waist-high+, very slow and inconsistent due to high tide, but a few forerunners from incoming swell, light to moderate winds.
- Caught 6 waves, with 2 of them surprisingly decent.
- Flies, 8:30AM-10AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself. Up to 10 people out, mostly foilers, including Nico and Rick.
- waist-high+, consistent-ish, a bit choppy due to moderate winds, but overall nicer than yesterday.
- Caught about 15 waves, with a couple of pretty fun rights considering.
- Toes, 8AM-9AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash
- By myself. Nobody out.
- waist-high, not consistent, choppy/windy, weak, but still catchable waves.
- Caught ~10 waves, mostly lefts, nothing great. Was able to practice cross-stepping quite a bit, which is always nice
- Flies, 7:30AM-9AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash at first
- By myself. 12 foilers out, only surfer out was me.
- waist-high, somewhat consistnt, a bit choppy/wind.
- Caught 10+ waves, with a couple of decent rights
- Boneyards, 5:30AM-8:45AM
- On Susan's 9'6''
- With Dario and Travis, almost nobody else out
- knee- to waist-high, glassy, overcast
- Caught 25+ waves, with a few decent ones if small
- Was wearing a wetsuit for the first time in years, and a long suit to boot due to weirdly cold water temps in the Summer
- Boneyards, 5:30AM-8:45AM
- On Susan's 9'6''
- With Dario and Travis, almost nobody else out
- A bit better than yesterday, a bit more size, and sunny!
- Caught 25+ waves, with 2-3 really nice rights
- Went to Jaime's place afterwards where we basically spent the whole day
- Boneyards, 5:30AM-7:30AM
- On Darios's 9'6'' Brewer
- With Dario and Travis, almost nobody else out
- Smaller than yesterday, and even than Monday
- Caught 15+ waves, with one night right on which I hung five nicely and easily given the board
- Old Man's, 6:30AM-8:30AM
- On Susan's 9'6''
- With Dario, Travis, Guy, and Jaime, first only us out and at the end up to 30 other people
- Waist-high, choppy/windy, but some waves coming through.
- Caught 15+ waves, with one really good right.
- Old Man's, 11AM-12:30PM
- On Susan's 9'6''
- With Dario, Travis, and Guy, up to 30 other people out
- Waist-high, choppy/windy, not great due to higher tide
- Caught about 5 waves, with one really good right and one decent left
- Toes, 10:30AM-12AM
- On my 9'2'' Morgan
- By myself, one other guy out (Trevor)
- Head-high+, light winds, disorganized.
- Definitely some size today, but after checking Flies and seeing that it looked horrible, I decided to go to Toes. A guy on the beach told me that he caught only 1 waves in 2 hours on his SUP and that it was big but disorganized. Paddled out anyway.
- Made one drop on an overhead right that didn't hold up, so I wiped out just after the drop and was held down under water quite a bit. That was about it. Smaller waves were impossible to catch due to the really high (and rising) tide, and big ones were pretty sketchy. Ended up catching some white water in at the end. Nice conversation with Trevor in the line up, or whatever seemed to be the line up today.
- Flies, 9:30AM-10:45AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself, up to 15 people out but around 8 during most of the session
- waist-high+, occ. chest, light wind and rain, nice but long-ish waits.
- Caught about 10 waves, with 3-4 pretty fun rights that broke on the outside
- Toes, 2:30PM-4PM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez, no leash
- By myself, only one other guy out
- knee- to waist-high, moderate winds, weak and not consistent
- Caught about 8 waves, nothing great
- Plenty of turtles in the line-up
- Toes, 8AM-9:30AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself, up to 10 other people out
- Waist-high+, light winds, very inconsistent
- Caught only 2 waves, but the 1st one was a great left, so it made it all worth it.
- Beautiful day out there.
- Toes, 8:30AM-10AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself, up to 4 other people out
- Waist-high+, light winds, inconsistent and more so as session went on, but better than Monday by a large margin
- Caught about 10 waves, with 2 really nice lefts and one nice right.
- Flies, 9AM-10:30AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself, up to 10 people out
- Waist-high to Chest-high+, moderate winds, pretty consistent
- Caught about 8 waves, with 2 absolutely outstanding, line-up, beefy rights, the last one being clearly a bit overhead on the peak. That was one of my the best waves of the summer.
- Flies, 9:30AM-11AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself, from 5 to up to 20 people out including Nodari, Phil, and Erik
- Waist-high to Chest-high, almost glassy, consistent at first, then a long lull
- Caught about 8 waves, with 4 super clean nice rights.
- Flies, 1PM-2:30PM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself, up to 15 people out including Ben, Che.
- Waist-high+, glassy and consisten at firt, and light winds and inconsistend as tide went up.
- Caught 6-7 waves. My first one was a great right, super clean. After that nothing special.
- Toes, 9:45AM-11AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself, up to 15 people out.
- Waist-to chest-high, light winds, nicely shaped, not super consistent and less so as the tide rose.
- Caught 4-5 lefts, with 2 outstanding ones. On the best one, on the third section I fell backwards because I mistimed a backside turn. It was kind of sad because that wave looked lined up all the way to the inside.
- Flies, 10AM-11:15AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself, up to 20 people out, including Takao and Marshall
- Waist-to chest-high, moderate winds, not super consistent and a bit weird, but getting better as time went on.
- Caught about 10 waves, with 2-3 nice rights that stayed mostly open
- Toes, 2PM-3PM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself, up to 3-4 people out
- Waist-high+, moderate winds, not super consistent, cloudy
- Caught about 6 waves, with 2-3 decent lefts
- Flies, 9:30AM-11AM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself, up to 2 other people out include Takao
- Waist-high+, no wind, very weak due to high tide at first
- Caught about 10 waves, with 4 nice-ish ones toward the end of the session.
- Went out knowingly too early due to the high tide, and as expected things improved as the tide went out.
- Toes, 2:30PM-4PM
- On my 9'6'' Hernandez
- By myself, up to 3 other people out
- Waist-high, moderate winds, junky, but some waves
- Caught 4-5 waves, nothing good, very short rides.