What happens when you give Hawaii surfers a week of rain, a tractor, and a flooded river mouth? Apparently, a whole lot of epic.
Periodically, during the rainy winter season on Oahu's north shore, the river that runs through Waimea Valley floods, sending a heavy flow of water out into the sea. With the river flowing right through the heart of the world's mecca of surfing, locals saw only one possibility: Let's surf that thing.
With a couple of newly dug trenches at the mouth of the river, locals -- including pro surfers Kalani Chapman and Jamie O'Brien -- rode the partially man-made wave into the night (literally). Even on gloomy, rainy days, it turns out, Hawaii is still the happiest state in the country.
Periodically, during the rainy winter season on Oahu's north shore, the river that runs through Waimea Valley floods, sending a heavy flow of water out into the sea. With the river flowing right through the heart of the world's mecca of surfing, locals saw only one possibility: Let's surf that thing.
With a couple of newly dug trenches at the mouth of the river, locals -- including pro surfers Kalani Chapman and Jamie O'Brien -- rode the partially man-made wave into the night (literally). Even on gloomy, rainy days, it turns out, Hawaii is still the happiest state in the country.