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This right-hand peak concaves into a walling tube with only one way out—through the eye. Thick lips and heavy walls are common. This is a right-hand barrel with one of the best thick curling tubes in
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Waimea
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Sand quickly turns to rock ledges and reef behind Sunset Beach to the east where huge swell produces extremely fast rights from 6 to more than 15 feet. These express-train barrels are for advanced sur
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Waialee
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One of the world’s most challenging and epic waves, this famous steep, fast left-hand barrel reef breaks off shallow coral reefs 100 yards from shore. It’s known as the most awesome left in the world.
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The reef is named for the John Chun family, who had a house inshore of the break many years ago. Native Hawaiians who fished and surfed the reef, they must have been spoiled to the core. This is a gre
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Kawailoa Beach
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The peak peels and shifts on different swell sizes and direction. This excellent right- and left-hand wave is a medium- to big-wave spot that lets you know who’s in charge. Known for its heavy and agg
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Sunset Beach
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This left- and right-hand reef break is famous for the perfect right that walls and barrels, ending up as a shallow closeout that’s really scary. The takeoff is two reefs 200 and 350 yards out from th
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Haleiwa
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This powerful long left peak that winds across a shallow reef has a way of asking you to write your name in the wave face. There’s so much turning area on the lefts that you don’t feel like you’re goi
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Sunset Beach
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Laniakea is a long right-hand reef break that resembles a point wave. It’s a classic big-wave spot and fun inner reef on 4- to 6-foot days. Rides of 300 to 500 yards are possible. Best Boards: Shortbo
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Kawailoa
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A left-hand reef break with a soft, slow curl line and a fun hook. Other than the inside section, Left Overs offers plenty of base to the wall for both longboard and shortboard fun. It holds swell fro
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Waimea
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This right-hand reef break—with a left at times—is another of the all-time great Hawaiian waves. Look for high-performance tube surfing from steep, fast A-frame peaks. Best Boards: Shortboards up to 7
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Waimea
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A short right- and long left-hand reef break with a long paddle-out. Strong currents and shifts in the reef make it a new experience to get used to—the reef plate pulls and pushes the water depth with
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Kahuku
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Mostly deserted peaks line up and roll along a 2-mile stretch of beach. Waves form on reefs 200 to 300 yards out, offering a host of challenging rights and lefts. Reefs dotted about the main reef frin
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Waialua
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This predominantly right-hand A-frame reef break on the North Shore is one of the great wide white-sand beaches. You wait beneath palm trees, choosing the right time of tide and swell direction to ent
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Sunset Beach
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This famous right-hand reef break surely has one of the best tubes in the world—at least if we’re to judge by the amount of Kodak film used by the lineup of photographers on the nearby wall. It works
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Waimea
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Pupukea is one of the great fun beach breaks of the North Shore, with challenging waves for the expert if it’s over 6 feet and fun small performance waves at 3 feet. Walling waves are short and fast t
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Sunset Beach
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This big-wave left-hander always seems impossible to ride when surfers’ eyes scan up and down the beach, from Back Door or Off the Wall, in an attempt to find a peak. The black lava rocks and deep blu
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Waimea
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Rocky Point has a reputation for quality lefts and rights when the other major surf spots are missing out on the swell, or just not lined up well. Situated 0.75 mile east of Banzai Pipeline and 0.5 mi
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Sunset Beach
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Sunset Beach may well be the most famous beach in the world. With its epic West Peak and a bowling right tube area, it breaks 15 to 30 feet or more in a northwest swell. It’s hollow and very hard to m
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Sunset Beach
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This right-hander is a top-quality reef break that’s hard to get to, hard to get uncrowded, and hard to surf. It’s a top-to-bottom wall from a peak takeoff along the edge of shallow reef ledges. Best
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Waialee
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A right-hand point break with some of the biggest ridable waves in the world, this famous spot was the original place to ride 30-foot-plus waves and still is one of the premier big-wave spots. It brea
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Waimea
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The ultimate big-wave beach break with pounding lefts, this is a bodyboarder’s extreme wave to ride, nightmare or dream. It's a grinding left-hand beach break for only the most advanced bodyboarders.
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