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October 02, 2003
4 foot swells coming in
Well, the forecast is calling for 12-15 foot faces tommorow, which should be about 6-8 foot Hawaiian. This graph of the buoy 1 appoximately indicates not only swell height, but stoke level:
[img]http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/plot_wave.phtml?$station=51001$swht[/img]
I surfed twice yesterday: woke up and it was still flat, but the buoys had been pinging since 2am, Garrett was calling the swell to arrive at 10. My phone was ringing off the hook with buddies wanting a report. I went on some appointments and got in the water somewhere I cannot say around 1. 4-5 foot, about 10 guys aout, but I still caught choke waves. Nobody seemed to be really on the peak.
Some crap pics I took:
Evening session right behind my house. I brought two friends with me, which this guy in the water I have never seen before took great offence to. "Where are all these people coming from?!?!" he bellowed from his longboard on the outside. "I remeber when I used to surf this place just me and ----!!"
I tried to ignore the guy best I could and enjoy the reeling 4 occ 4 1/2 foot lefts that where peeling in. We weren't even really near the guy for g-d's sake! My buddy in the buidling had warned me there was a longboard guy who came out once in a blue moon who thinks he owns the place, I think that was him.
Another note: someone called DLNR (dept of land and natural resources) and complained that they observed me giving surf lessons without a permit. The guy said there have been "lots of complaints.' This is REALLY interesting considering I haven't even given any surf lessons, I have only put up an ad on my site site regarding doing it, and I have had a few calls, but no dice yet. I HAVE heard about guys giving surf lessons at chuns and clogging the lineups so I guess they blamed it on me since my webpages on this site are ranking well for "surf lessons hawaii" and related keywords. Maybe they are jealous of my sites rankings, Amazing bullshit!!!! I never mentioned it, but I do Search Engine Optimization for living, thats how I did it.
Anyways, I have begn the process of getting the proper permits. To whoever comlained about me: how would you even know it's me? There aren't any pictures of my face on the site!!
Posted by hawaiisurf at October 2, 2003 11:34 PM
Comments
nice. hope you guys get out and find some good ones today. been flat as a pancake here for weeks now. looks like there might be a little bit of NW filling in. winter is coming. ;)
Posted by: sean at October 3, 2003 06:44 AM
Can't wait to get out to either the NS or Leeward coast this weekend. Too much work in town this week to get out, but did find some nice fun waves at Diamond Head this morning for a session to keep things in perspective. Is this swell as big as they have predicted? How is it today? Macking?
Posted by: bagus at October 3, 2003 01:13 PM