Jamie O’Brien knows where his bread is buttered. It’s mostly two places: Pipeline and Waimea. When either Pipe is firing or Waimea is, Jamie is likely to be there, and when it comes to Waimea, he’s got options.
When it rains in Hawaii, it pours. Up in the mountains, all that rain makes its way to the Waimea River which, as rivers tend to do, drains into the ocean at Waimea Bay. As you’ve no doubt seen before, when the water builds up behind the sand at Waimea, a standing wave can be created.
“This going to be a river monster,” Jamie said as he walked across the park to the beach. And he wasn’t wrong.
This is far from his first rodeo. If anyone can claim the Waimea River wave as their “home break,” it’s Jamie. Sure, he can claim a lot of waves as his home break, but the river wave seems to have a special place in his heart.
He showed up a little late, but things were already firing. As the day progressed, that fire got hotter and hotter until it was positively radioactive.
