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Well, finally.
After a two week flat spell, Hawaiian Huey pulled his finger out of his Ahi and threw us a little swell. Nothing major, but a tidy little north – west push to let everyone wash off the fortnight’s worth of rusty dust, that unique red soil that is the essence of the Hawaiian land. At Pipe, there has a bit of sand build up over the reef and it broke in a short, sharp, weird little . . . well, almost, shorey. Closer to the beach even than normal. Backdoor had a few with Shane Patrick Dorian getting a good one, and Off The Wall was a woeful close out.
For mine, the stretch of reefs from Waimea west to Haleiwa was the pick early on, until a mid morning nor-easter smacked that whole coast into crumbleville. At that point the best option for a few pics (yes, believe it or not I actually worked today, so while I’d liked to have surfed, my dedication to your unceasing, insatiable lust for entertainment dictated terms; hope you’re all happy. . .) was Rocky Point.
Loved by some and despised others. Often packed, lips get smacked, stickers and flair, all rail and airs. Chicks on land, the G-string band, best light in the game, scene can be lame. Occy once owned the left walls, rose then fall, then rose again, the roundhouse of Zen. New school show stoppers, groms knee high to grasshoppers, reforms and bowls, inside’s got soul, don’t knock Rocky, the home of cocky!
A couple of local hotties dominated and got most of the waves, although Aussie stylists Ace Buchan and Craig Anderson nabbed a nice left or two each. There weren’t many guys out until mid arvo, rare for Rocky Point, which made me wonder where the Rocky lovers were. Turned out they were actually waiting for the tide to start running out a bit, to get the rip drawing through the inside left, creating a nice little dredgy bowl that was ripe for punts and big hacks.
The Pipemasters is still on hold and there are apparently slim swell pickin’s on the horizon, fingers crossed.
Shootz, best wishes to Luke and his recovery from his injury at Sunset.
Mahalo.
Sparksie
