40 ft surf at waimea bay yesterday.....biggest of the season so far....

[msongs]

[PortTack]

1. So beautiful..not a surfer, but have been there...just the most awesome display

[dumbcat]

2. I lived in a beach house just 3 miles west of there

on Kam Hiway in Haleiwa back in 1972-73. We used to get that same surf on our beach, about 25 feet from my doorway. In the winter of 1972-73 we had to abandon our beach house and evacuate to Wahiawa when the surf started coming into our windows.

We thought it was pretty exciting at the time. I don't think I would want to go through that again anymore at my advanced age!

[babylonsister]

3. Jeeze, what a memory!

Ahhh, youth. That one's a keeper.

[dumbcat]

4. I still have pictures of me with my surfboard

in front of that beach house. I even remember the address, 61-673 Kamehameha Hiway, Haleiwa, HI.

We were three bachelor Army Lieutenants renting that beachouse for over a year. It was $345 a month rent, split three ways. Can you imagine what it must be now?

Right after we had to abandon the house due to the high surf in December 1973 we all PCSed to Asia for a couple of years. I ended up mostly in Taiwan. Yep, Ahhhhh youth!

[msongs]

5. lived on crozier drive at the time in mokuleia nt

[ShazzieB]

6. This is hypnotic to watch.

I never realized it could be so fascinating to watch people surfing (never having had the opportunity to do so).

[JudyM]

7. Thanks for that vacation-like fantasy break, msongs.

[Phoenix61]

8. I've been there but not when the waves were like that. nt