Lewis, our national team rider is presently on the Northshore of Oahu...the global epicentre of surfing (lucky man) and he's written a diary piece for us below. The picture is of lewis surfing Haleiwa a few days ago:
"I got to hawaii in the evening on the 26th of febuary and woke up the next day to the north shore pumping, i'm staying about a 2 minute walk away from sunset so i could hear the waves all night. The surf has been so good, last week pipeline was as the locals were saying 'As good as it gets'.
The weather has been great too havn't had a drop of rain which from what i heard from people before i came is pretty strange. The day before last i paddled out at pipe on a smallish day, was soo cool just to be out there i managed to nab a little backhand keg aswell so i'm well stoked! yesterday the swell picked back up and there is meant to be a real big swell coming tomorrow so it should be wicked to watch pipe work again.
On monday there was a kinda medium sized swell and it was clean so i took the opportunity to paddle out at sunset to get a closer veiw of such a sick wave, i used a old brown 7'2 i found in the house where i'm staying. When i got out there it was bigger than expected haha i took off on one got to the bottom and stacked it, then decided that was enough for me and just sat in the channel and watched for abit. Overall so far i've had a bloody sick time and have some sick surf just stocked i've got 3 weeks left of it".
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