Sunset Beach was doing its thing while everyone was looking at Pipeline. Photo: YouTube//Screenshot
Friday, February 7 was a good day to be a surfer on the North Shore of Oahu. Any day is, really, but this one particularly so. The Lexus Pipe Pro was on at Ehukai Beach Park and thousands of spectators lined the sand. Many of the best surfers were there, too, which means that they weren’t at Sunset. And with a seven-foot northwest swell at 15 seconds, Sunset was absolutely bombing.
Sunset is not an easy place to surf. It’s unpredictable, which is a pretty normal thing for a break to be, but Sunset is on another level. It’s heavy and powerful, full of currents and shifting conditions. It’s nearly impossible to read, and when it gets big, everything is amped up.
But if you’re a fan of those things and you’re also a fan of surfing when the lineup is a little less crowded, well, you shoulda been there on Friday.
