Hi Derek, I used to like that peak too. Sometimes you could go right and the wave would double up from the wave coming in from shark country. It’s all dependent on the swell direction. It still breaks, we went out to SC last Saturday and it
was actually better on the inside. That spot had waves going left and
right. When SC is breaking good that becomes the last section of the wave.
The pipeline was the sewer line they built for the sewage plant just outside the Barber’s Point Gate on Geiger Rd.
My
friend David “Roadblock” Ontai said he was cruising the outer reef on
his jetski and could tell those reefs were filling in. He thinks that’s
why the wave is not the same anymore. It’s getting blocked by the outer
reefs. We’ve seen them breaking more on bigger days, so it must be true.
There’s also those big fish pens and I think they’re impacting the
waves.
We called it Kui’s because it was outside uncle Kui’s house. That was
the last house before Ewa Plantation 's park. After uncle Kui Ching died
Alfred Ah Loo took over that house.
Uncle Kui owned Tire Recap Service in town. His wife was my dad’s aunt. Every weekend he’d come down and make Chow Fun or Chow Mein in a big wok. In those days, we’d gather between his house and the Farm’s house.
After Uncle Ted Farm got the bus and we built that big lanai, everything moved over to that side next to uncle Sonny’s lot. Then auntie Emma Matsunaga decided to give up her house and a guy named Trap took over. He let his friend who we all called Ski and his wife live there. After Ski’s wife passed away, he decided to move to Florida, and uncle Ted took over that house. Then all the action moved over to that side next to where Joey lives now.
After Uncle Sonny Cordes passed away, his daughter started coming down to the beach and decided she liked it so she took over that house. By then it was the early 80’s and I was living in town with my wife to be. Then Haseko bought the land from Campbell and the houses started getting demolised. Only Uncle Ted’s house on the diamond head end and Joey Gaynor’s wife’s house (the Okamura’s house) remained, because Uncle Ted became the caretaker for the land. He had a big front loader and was able to move big rocks around to block all the places people tried to use to get to into the lots. Joey’s older sister Vicky was V.P. of Community Relations at Haseko, and his house was on the first lot so he was lucky to stay. Today he still there and kinda watches over the area until Haseko finally gets around the developing it.
After Uncle Ted passed away, Haseko told his son Kevin, he could keep the house there if he moved down to Ewa, but Kevin has a family and a house in town, so he didn’t want to do that. That was the end of our run there from 1939 or so till ?? Joey is still there.
Ted Farm is a huge part of history of Shark Country. He lived on that beach for the better part of 30 years. He was a heck of a ocean person and ate a lot of the food that grew just outside his front yard. He could do just about anything, and built all kinds of things to make living there easier. He taught his kids Kimo, Kevin and Kyle how to fish, and they were/are all great divers. They also became good surfers. Shark Country was Kimo’s break for many years, but we are a little younger than the 60’s kids. I think Kimo graduated from high school in 1970.
Sonny Cordes lived in Lualualei Valley when he was younger. It was not an easy to live out there and work in town, but he did it. I remember when he planted grass all over his lot. Everyone laughed and said it wouldn’t grow. He used to tell us all you have to do is water it and it will grow. When it was about a foot high we were the lucky ones who had to cut it. One acre of foot high grass to cut is a lot of work.
His sister auntie Girlie (Wilhemina) lived on Molokai for many years, so when she lived at the beach house she was right at home. They created a nice little farm there and had lots of animals. She became our Hanai Grandmother and I loved auntie Girlie so much. It was the late 60’s into the early 70’s and life was great. She passed away in September of 1974 just before Oneula left for Seattle and UW.
