North Shore Hawaii

North Shore Surf Girls knows that when people talk about the North Shore, Hawaii they're talking about the stretch of land between Haleiwa and Turtle Bay on Oahu’s North Shore known as the seven-mile miracle North Shore Oahu is a remarkable place with captivating beaches and beautiful mountains lining the horizon to the west and provides for some of the nicest sunsets in the world. The North Shore is also home to the world’s biggest, fastest, and most powerful waves and serves as a Mecca for surfers worldwide looking to hone their chops on the epic surf the area has to offer. In the North Shore pipeline waves are what most thrill seekers, both in and out of the water, look for. Pipeline is a wave found at Ehukai Beach on the North Shore and, because of the extreme power and tubular-ness of the spot, has spawned its own special type of break.

Sunset Beach or Paumalu, translation into English "taken secretly", is also a popular surfing spot and host world class surfing contest for both men and women. One of the longest white sand beaches in Hawaii it is perfect for swimming and snorkeling and shell collecting in the summer months. Of course it's a perfect location to watch a beautiful North Shore Hawaii Sunset.

A Hawaiian legend tells of a love of love and a betrayal between a Hawaiian goddess and a young prince who broke his promise of fidelity because of becoming forgetful in his excitement over riding the huge waves of the North Shore of Oahu. His punishment was being turned to stone. Once a prince of Kaua'i named Kahikilani crossed the hundred miles of open sea between his home and Oahu just to prove his prowess in the great Paumalu surf. As soon as he arrived he started surfing. Day after day he perfected his skill in the jaw like waves. As he rode he was watched by a bird maiden with supernatural powers who lived in a cave on a nearby mountain. She fell in love with the prince and sent bird messengers to place an orange lehua lei around his neck and bring him to her. By flying around his head, the messengers guided Kahikilani to the bird maiden's cave. Enchanted, he spent several months with her -- until the return of the surfing season. Then the distant sizzle and boom of the waves at Paumalu were too much for Kahikilani to resist, and he left the maiden, but only after promising never to kiss another woman. However, the excitement of the rising surf must have clouded his memory because almost as soon as he was riding again, a beautiful woman came walking along the white sand. She saw him there, waited until he rode to shore, placed an ilima lei around his neck, and kissed him. His vow was broken. He thought nothing of it and paddled back out to the breaking waves, but the bird messengers were watching. They flew to tell their mistress of his infidelity. When she heard their report, the bird maiden ran to the beach with a lehua lei in her hand. Snatching the ilima lei from Kahikilani's neck, she replaced it with the one made from lehua blossoms. As she ran back to her cave, he chased her. That was the last Kahikilani saw of the bird maiden, though, for when he was halfway up the mountain she called on her 'aumakua (family god) and Kahikilani was turned to stone. The image of Kahikilani can still be seen, today, with a petrified lehua lei around his neck on a barren ridge above Paumalu Bay, less than a mile from the Kamehameha Highway.

Waimea Bay is the place to watch the biggest waves in the world and host to the biggest wave contest in the world, the Quicksilver invitation in memory of Eddie Aikau. Eddie Aikau (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Aikau )was the first North Shore Hawaii lifeguard at Waimea Bay and saved many people from the huge north shore surf. Sadly Eddie was lost at sea in 1978 while attempting to paddle 12 miles over open ocean to summon help for his fellow crew members in the ill fated first attempt to sail using only the stars as navigation from Hawaii to Tahiti following the route of the ancient Polynesians migration to Hawaii. Eddie was only 31 years of age at the time of his death and is regarded as a hero in Hawaii

The North Shore Waves on Oahu are host to a number of different surfing contests year round including the Triple Crown of Surfing held in November and December of every year at the areas top breaks. During these contests the best surfers in the world come to the North Shore to train and conquer the biggest contest surf around. Throughout surfing circles it is said that winning the Triple Crown is on par with winning a world title just because of how the North Shore waves push a surfers limits like nowhere else on earth. Come to the North Shore Hawaii and let us show you what the area is all about.)