"Monster waves. Huge wipeouts. Hawaii is, of course, America's surfing Mecca, and the North Shore of Oahu is the State's Holy Grail. Seven miles northeast of Haleiwa is a wide stretch of beach along Kamehameha Highway that includes parks like Sunset Beach, Ehukai Beach, and Pupukea Beach. And in winter, the really big surf rolls in. The hottest place to board? Just west of Ehukai Beach Park; here you'll find the much celebrated Banzai Pipeline, a spot where the shallow water and coral shelf combine to create powerful tubular waves that resemble pipes, thus giving the place its name. When the surf is calm, this stretch of beach can be good for swimming. But if the surf's up, beware! The Pipeline at full strength is unforgiving, even for the pros."
From: http://away.com/tripideas/haleiwa-hawaii-surfing-301129.html
If you click on a photo you will be able to see the surfers and colors better.
This surfer seems to be in the middle of a double barrel wave. It is breaking into white water on both his left and right. He was not in the area of the beach where the biggest waves, and biggest crowd of surfers, were located. We thought maybe he wanted to stay away from the coral or maybe the crowd or maybe both.
Look carefully inside of the curl, and you should be able to see the surfer that is in the next couple of photos.
Here he has come out of the curl and continues to ride.
The wave crested and the surfer rides to the top of the crest. He did not fall after this but instead rode the wave almost to the beach.
Although these waves looked giant to us, they apparently were not sufficiently high to tempt the surfers waiting for a bigger one.
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