The surf forecast is showing 20-40′ faces coming this Thursday, which means there’s a good chance that the Big Wave Invitational in memory of Eddie Aikau will go off. Start preparing your excuses to call in work, and head up to Waimea Bay early in the day…traffic gets crazy for this event.
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There is a gigantic swell heading towards the north shore of Oahu right now. They’re predicting faces of 30-40′ on Monday and Tuesday of next week.
This means that there’s a great chance that the Big wave invatational in memory of Eddie Aikau will go off.
Excited to feel the rumble of the waves breaking on the shore 
This week has blessed us with very light Kona winds, causing glassy perfect conditions for the entire island. The windward side has been getting a good overhead swell that has wrapped around to Diamond Head and a few other south shore spots…gracing them with great conditions.
All day today and yesterday Diamond Head was picture perfect and judging by the Kona winds outlook for the week, it will continue to be for the next few days.
This week is shaping up to be some great surf on both the north and south shores of Oahu. 7′+ faces and low winds are predicted to span over 5 or more days. I plan on trying out some newly discovered spots that have epic potential with head high swell. Stay tuned for reports!
As reported by the Examiner, tropical storm Carlos is fizzling out, which means Hawaii will likely not be hit by the storm, but the swell from it will.
We may see overhead south swell come late next week as a result. Lets keep our fingers crossed to keep this epic south summer rolling along.
In the meantime, there is still some decent shoulder-high swell to enjoy on the south shores, but you may need to be patient for them.
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.
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!