Here is my spot of 26 years 2 days ago.
My dog and I enjoying a nice day at Sunset Cliffs.
Since getting kicked off our family beach house fronting SharkCountry 20+ years ago I’ve been regulated to surfing a spot down the beach called Haubush Beach Park, Ewa Beach Hawaii 96706 formerly known as Sand tracks.
Here you can read about the crew that adopted it for their own a while back the so called, Oneula Beach Surf Club
http://hotspotshawaii.com/…es/Oneula/Frame.html
You’ll still find many of these same guys still hanging out there every sunday having a good time getting drunk and smoking dope after their morning session.
But this is what it’s become and some of the current controversy regarding the coming marina:
We used to be the limu and white crab capital of Oahu
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/…ab-b3af-f034d2793eb7
Now we’re a drop off point for the unfortunate:
http://starbulletin.com/…/03/news/story3.html
Even Dog Chapman made a couple collars on national TV out here…
All in all it’s still home
and when it’s good it’ll make you smile.
Especially in the summer and whenever there’s a 20’ West Northwest.
Even had a couple of nice weekend sessions with Derek(Foamdust)
Here’s some footage from “Coconut Technique” showing Oneula/Haubush Beach Park in the middle winter with our own local version of Joel Tudor with family and friends. This is considered “offseason” for the south shore but we’re west enough to get wraps…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVM10yr4Ut4
Another former secret spot of mine just down the beach is a place called White Plains, Kalaeloa, Barbers Point or as Jim Phillips would remember, Officer Beach. When it was military is was a pristine surf wonderland especially with big winter W-NW wrapping swells and Northeast winds (offshore). Most of the time out here its 20mph sideshore starting at 9AM sharp when the land heats up.
I don’t venture to O-Beach anymore because it’s become the westside waikiki and the water smells of urine. But if you can put up with the smell and the crowds of beginners making a human wall on the inside it still is a fun wave.
Terry Reis shoots video out there and below are some examples for your pleasure.
Should bring back some memories to some of the old timers out there like Jim.
I guees we’re lucky to have videos of our junky surf.
And as you can tell there’s all kinds out here…
BTW Chandler’s 5-fin fishes work as good out here in this Ewa Beach slop as they do in his backyard at SunsetPoint on the northshore…
http://www.surfshooterhawaii.com/winmedia/WPB23Sep06.wmv
http://www.surfshooterhawaii.com/winmedia/wpb4Sep06.wmv
http://www.surfshooterhawaii.com/winmedia/WPB26Aug06.wmv
http://www.surfshooterhawaii.com/winmedia/wpb15Jul06.wmv
http://www.surfshooterhawaii.com/winmedia/WPB13May06.wmv
This is my niece standing on the shoreline. There is no sandy beach here. To the right is First Bay, Behind her on the left is Second Bay. The little blip of white between the rainbows is me paddling in from Second Bay, but because of the resizing you can’t make it out. This is 10 minutes from my house. A typical morning, some trade showers mixed in with some sun makes for plenty of rainbows. Aloha
Punasurf: very cool picha!
Thanks. I got a say you pics of Balboa are really sweet too. Looks like the kind of place I won’t mind dropping in on. No worries though, I don’t snake waves.
Aloha
Hey puna
any surf near Hawaiian Acres?
We have 2 acres of land out there in the boonies(Ihear there’s some infrastucture now) and one day I hope to retire out that way and grow orchids or anthuriums like the rest of the neighborhood. Whenever I visit Hilo and Orchidland all they do is complain of the lousy surf on Hilo side.
Depends on what you mean by near. Ya, there’s surf everywhere, you just have to go out and find it. I’m glad they think it’s lousy, just keeps them out of the water. I’m getting little barrels and smacking lips almost every day. It’s making the best of what you got.
I am a total kook with a camera, but i’ll ask my dad ( he’s a photography buff ) to take some next time he’s down. Anyway, i have beaches north and south of me. I mainly head 20 mins north ( its right near my work, so i do a lot of after night shift early morning midweeks ) and surf port kembla, or around the corner. Or i head 15 mins south and surf jones’ beach, or ( when its the right swell direction and not too big haha ) mystics. In between there are some good beaches as well, but the above are probably my regulars. Some good pics, and if i tried to get a snap of the beaches i’d do a horrible job, so, i’ll let my dad take some, at least i know they will be good quality pics!
Lived in the “Acres” for 11 years, gotta drive 40 min. to Puna, get what you can there. 20 min. to Hilo, before or after the traffic thins. The new Kamehameha School opened above Keaau a few years ago and also there has been allot of “I live here now”, tourists. Land was inexpensive until Oprah mentioned the east side, the floodgates opened…the boom is pau and soon there will be allot of forclosures on those spec houses. It’s always been this way here, boom and bust. Not a bad place to lay your head. Surf-wise, ehhh. Ever since Kalapana got covered with lava, surfing here is few and far between.
Haubush looks like a better bet. I guess it really depends on where you’re coming from though…
Where I grew up surfing on a nice day, my folks are still there, bring on Xmas for a visit to the old stomping ground Yaroomba, Sunshine, Coast Australia
Where I live now
dwertang-heck boy, be proud of redneckism! that looks like your picture is from where i live-ventucky.dogs, boats, trucks, guns and horses.git 'er done…
A pic of my son playing with a friendly seal at a local break…De Cymru -
Well this is a shot from our local beach I just grabbed from magicseaweed site, I don’t have any shots of my own handy right now, I’ll get some soon though.
As you can see it’s brown and murky and darn cold. Why do we love it? It’s all we’ve got!
This means, we get to work on our paddling skills in strong currents, heavy tides, cold water and strong winds. We’ll ride anything that smells like a wave, we’re so desperate for a surf… And now to hijack the thread!! Haha!!!
Because what we get isn’t that hot, when we get the opportunity to go somewhere nice… we go to places like…
Muizenberg, Cape Town, South Africa, the most under-rated beach in Cape Town… Pretty sharky though…
One of the locals… nah, this one is in an aquarium in Cape Town… Haha!!
Keurbooms, on the road east from Cape Town to Port Elisabeth…
Vicbaai, a must see on the road east… near George
More vicbaai…
Somewhere up the west coast…
Is that a shadow in the wave??? Near Kalkbaai…
Legendary E-bay, on a not so legendary day…
Well…
this is “Young Sir Josh” 's favourite shot of scarborough beach , west australia [taken during his trip here in october]…
there are HEAPS of other shots on the “share the stoke” and “photos , keep 'em coming” photo threads , too …
cheers
ben