"Surfs Up" Danly’s photos around Honolulu, United States

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Honolulu, United States by TravelPod blogger Danly titled "Surfs Up!" Danly’s travel blog entry: "Aloha again and mahalo for all your comments so far. Well today was an awesome day. We got up at 5am (not the thing you normally do on honeymoon!) and drove to the north of the island to Waimea Bay where there was the possibility of the Eddie Aikau Big Wave surf comp taking place. Parking was terrible and even at that time of the morning there were people everywhere. We found a park and got down to the beach. The waves were simply amazing! They were the biggest I have seen and I could have watched them all day. The event organiser finally announced that 'the Eddie is on!' and with a cheer of the crowd the surf comp started for the first time in 5 years. Waves have only been big enough to hold the event 8 times in the last 25 years so we were extremly lucky to be here for it. Plenty of big names such as Kelly Slater, Andy Irons, Michael Ho as only 24 surfers compete and they all must be invited. Awesome to watch and the crowd were really in to it! Only waves with a face of over 20 feet would count towards the comp and there were waves twice that height. A guy called Greg Long ended up winning but Ly and I liked Kelly Slater's moves most and the crowd loved him. Anyway after some huge traffic we made it back for some afternoon pool time. Then I went shopping again and bought some warm gear for later in the trip. Ly is yet to ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 57s Date Found: Sat, Mar 05 2011 6:15 PM Category: Travel Date Produced: Sat, Mar 05 2011 10:48 AM View Count: 0