A beautiful bay on the Oahu Waimea Bay on the north coast. It is named after the Waimea River, which flows there into the sea. Another interesting place in the Waimea Valley is Waimea Falls.

In the quiet summer months, the Waimea Bay for swimming in a beautiful setting. In winter, from an excursion into the cold water but strongly discouraged. The winter brings stormy waves and dangerous currents in the Waimea Bay. Even experienced surfers will think twice whether they should venture into this cauldron. (more...)

At a time when the ships Cook reached the Hawaiian Islands, surfing, as a symbiosis of art, sports and religion, has reached its peak and the fact that so superficially described in his diaries, haole, was actually the top surfing Polynesia.

After the publication of reports on the Cook expedition, rushed to Hawaii to other ships, which brought more and more adventurers, runaway convicts, ruined businessmen, missionaries and other desperadoes. The white men brought with them technology, languages, new faith, and in addition the disease, crime and all other vices, accumulated over thousands of "civilized society". That was another beginning of the