South Shore Delight
Keani Canullo. Photo: Keoki
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On Oahu, people love to complain about Town. Normally, it’s people not from Town (a blanket term for the South Shore), but nonetheless, when it comes to Town-surf it’s a trendy thing to do. “It’s sooo lully,” they complain. “Sooo crowded,” they grumble. “Parking was nuts!” they exclaim.
“The water is too brilliantly turquoise, with a temperature not unlike being in mother’s womb as a prenatal babe.” Or: “The multiple rainbows that shimmer in the residential valleys between precocious, passing showers are distracting in the tube,” is another common grievance.
Spotlight: Big-Wave Female Photographers of Hawaii
Go behind the lens with the women photogs of Red Bull Magnitude
Christa Funk, getting the shot at Pipeline. Photo: Mike Latronic
Dashel Pierson
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Good news and bad news. First, the bad: the COVID-19 pandemic has toppled the traditional competitive season in Hawaii this winter. And the good? A seemingly endless run of swell has kept the Hawaiian Islands cranking for weeks on end.
And the bad news isn’t really
that bad, because, despite these unprecedented times and the lack of a “normal” winter, many events have pivoted into something special and fresh, and some new ones have cropped up, too. Like the Red Bull Magnitude event – an all-women, all-digital big-wave competition offering a prize purse of $40,000 for the top charging waterwomen in Hawaii during the course of the winter.