North Shore Waves

A few weeks back, the North Shore of Oahu saw some of the winter season's biggest waves. I took a lot of pictures, but they don't capture the scale of these waves. In the picture below, taken at "Sharks' Cove", the spray coming off the rocks is roughly 60-70 feet high. The waves themselves are roughly 25 feet. Try and picture a teeny person standing on the long rock out beyond the cove . If I had Photoshop I could put something out there to give a better idea of the scale, but you'll have to use your imagination. More pictures from a couple different days out on the North Shore are here. Oh - did I mention there were surfers out there? They were far away from the rocks of course, but they are still crazy! Oh - and one last thing - the only time I've seen a real traffic jam on the North Shore of Oahu was on the day I took this picture. People were lined up along all the beaches and the coastal road to watch the waves and the nutty surfers and traffic was essentially stopped. You gotta love a place where the only thing that causes traffic is people stopping in awe at mother nature.