With 3 days of sea breezes expected and overhead swell building on the south shore as I write this, I’m fully expecting Wed. & Thurs. of this week to be epic overhead glassyness.
Stay tuned for reports 
Tom Stokes of Hawaii Surf Session Report got some excellent video footage of the south swell. Enjoy!
Today marks the first day of the peaking swell, so I got up early and stopped by several breaks along the south shore and snapped a few shots. Overhead sets were rolling in every 5-10 minutes, and people were getting barreled all over the place.
This morning was nothing short of epic conditions. Paddled out at Tongs, then over to Rice Bowl, then to Old Mans. All 3 were going off. Glassy overhead barrels everywhere. Rice Bowl was the cleanest.
Occasional double overhead cleaner sets where coming through every half hour or so. Watch out for those!
I took some more pics at DiamondHead. Will post soon.
The current south swell is holding strong, with a new swell arriving today, bringing the wave heights to the advisery level of 10′ faces. It looks like this swell will peak on Wed. with 10′++ waves.
Strong trades continue to blow from the east, so get out there early to get the more glassy conditions.
For those of you into extreme moonlight surfing, the full moon was last night and should still be shining bright tonight.
Yesterday the swell was still pounding the south shore, though not quite as strong as on Wed. The tradewinds picked upto 10-15 mph so it was not nearly as clean either.
I paddled out at Old Mans, and while I thought the swell was big enough for the funboard, I was wrong. The waves break really (really) thick there even with overhead waves. The longboarders were having a blast though.
Afterwords I swung by Diamondhead Cliffs and snapped a picture of the choppy/crappy waves that were breaking there:
Forecast
Today looks like the swell has tapered off to 2-5′ faces, and the wind has picked up even more. Tomorrow a new swell arrives which will bring us 7′+ faces once again, though the trades are predected to be in the 10-25 mph range, it should still be good fun!
A big south swell has arrived along with the heat of the summer. Current conditions are glassy 4-7+ foot faces and 18 second periods. It doesn’t get much better than this on the south shore.
From the looks of the forecast, the swell will be sticking around for the next few days.
This morning I paddled out at Tongs (next to old man’s) and had a blast. The waves were doubleing up a bit as they normally do there, but looking up and down the shore a few of the nearby breaks were just beautiful.
Stay tuned for some pictures and more surf reports as the week goes on!
Australian cameraman Bali Strickland caught some amazing surf footage of a 12′ barrel in super slow motion. He used a $100,000 high speed and high def cam for the job, with the results revealing new evidence of how waves are actually formed underwater.
Bali must be one hell of a water photographer to be trusted with a camera that expensive in 12′ waves.
Great video of some massive north shore surf along with some big wipeouts.
