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.
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 
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.
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!