Sonofaskipper
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Kind of inaccurate, but okay. I was thinking more along the lines of antibiotics, and chemicals.Shrimp live off of eating other fishes poop so not sure it matters a whole lot...
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I must disagree with you on this one kind sir. There are many overpriced, fancy, crap restaurants on Oahu. Roys is awesome but not cheap. Your not gonna say way better like zippies are you? My friend who has lived on oahu for 15 years took me to me to his fave truck while i lived there. I went there as a child when my mom lived there. Not only tourist eat at the shrimp trucks. Most tourist don't make it out of there hotel pool area much less explore the island and find new places. Locals who want delicious, giant, never frozen, shrimp that were locally farmed on the north shore will get there grub on at the shrimp trucks. They are sustainably raised on the North Shore by farmers who take pride in there giant prawns. No ***ashima radiation or mercury. No tiny ,frozen, turd vein shrimp here. All the shrimp I have had since my favorite truck SUCKS! It doesnt even compare. You WILL NOT find giant prawn trucks on any other island because it is a little micro climate of tastiness away from it all in a beautiful spot. Id go there after driving my 71 FJ40 around the island the slow way. A nice 2 tank dive at sharks cove, maybe paddle board, then get my grub on! The best shrimp I have had in all my 44 years on this planet. Any day diving for me is a great day. Followed by a shrimp truck or Kens bakery was how I ended a perfect day before my drive back to my pad.
Sonofaskipper
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I must disagree with you on this one kind sir. There are many overpriced, fancy, crap restaurants on Oahu. Roys is awesome but not cheap. Your not gonna say way better like zippies are you? My friend who has lived on oahu for 15 years took me to me to his fave truck while i lived there. I went there as a child when my mom lived there. Not only tourist eat at the shrimp trucks. Most tourist don't make it out of there hotel pool area much less explore the island and find new places. Locals who want delicious, giant, never frozen, shrimp that were locally farmed on the north shore will get there grub on at the shrimp trucks. They are sustainably raised on the North Shore by farmers who take pride in there giant prawns. No ***ashima radiation or mercury. No tiny ,frozen, turd vein shrimp here. All the shrimp I have had since my favorite truck SUCKS! It doesnt even compare. You WILL NOT find giant prawn trucks on any other island because it is a little micro climate of tastiness away from it all in a beautiful spot. Id go there after driving my 71 FJ40 around the island the slow way. A nice 2 tank dive at sharks cove, maybe paddle board, then get my grub on! The best shrimp I have had in all my 44 years on this planet. Any day diving for me is a great day. Followed by a shrimp truck or Kens bakery was how I ended a perfect day before my drive back to my pad.
Sonofaskipper
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I can think of a number of food trucks on the north shore that do it for me way more than any shrimp truck, but maybe it just amounts to personal taste. I lived on the north shore for a decade, so I know all about the O’ahu outside the south shore. I grew up in a commercial fishing family, so I just have a different opinion about any seafood that is “farm raised.” To me, it’s just not the same.
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Shrimp live off of eating other fishes poop so not sure it matters a whole lot...
I must disagree with you on this one kind sir. There are many overpriced, fancy, crap restaurants on Oahu. Roys is awesome but not cheap. Your not gonna say way better like zippies are you? My friend who has lived on oahu for 15 years took me to me to his fave truck while i lived there. I went there as a child when my mom lived there. Not only tourist eat at the shrimp trucks. Most tourist don't make it out of there hotel pool area much less explore the island and find new places. Locals who want delicious, giant, never frozen, shrimp that were locally farmed on the north shore will get there grub on at the shrimp trucks. They are sustainably raised on the North Shore by farmers who take pride in there giant prawns. No ***ashima radiation or mercury. No tiny ,frozen, turd vein shrimp here. All the shrimp I have had since my favorite truck SUCKS!
Boys, boys! Can we not clog my super tech filled build thread with your arguments about shrimp!?! Can we just agree that you are all kinda right, but mostly wrong? Yes, there are way better places to eat here then the trucks, but there are a couple good trucks. Most are junk, and primarily cater to tourists. I almost never go to the shrimp trucks since the best shrimp on the island is made in my kitchen! Mo better then any truck for sure!! Ken’s has great pies, it’s just down the road from my house, and is partially to blame for the clothes from my younger years not fitting as good anymore!!!
Now that it is settled, let’s get back to my 80 and the beautiful scenery of my island home.
The Westside....
Southshore....
Eastside....
And of course the best for last the Northshore....
Sonofaskipper
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Jen, what do you and your hubby do for a living? My fam and I just left O’ahu last year after 10 years. I worked for an inter island tug boat company, delivering fuel to the outlying islands. I miss it for sure.
And now in So. Oregon?? lol. (I move the island as well years ago, eventually moved home)
Sonofaskipper
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Yeah. Closer to family. I’m away from home half the year, and with 2 kids and a heavy cost of living, living on a rock 2500 miles from anywhere just didn’t seem so appealing anymore. There aren’t a lot of wide open spaces on O’ahu either. Southern Oregon had a lot more of all that.
Sonofaskipper
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Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
@Aloha Jen - OK, so I hate to derail any “super-tech” talk myself - (OK, so I’m not guilt-ridden, but how else do I segue to tourism/Hawaii talk? 
)
So we all hear about the venerable “North Shore waves” - and as a middle-ager whose snowboarded on season passes to Mt. Baker nearing 2 decades -
What is it about the North Shore?
-Is it the sand angle/coral reef angle that makes for the wave break?
-Is it flat seabed a long ways to make a consistent break before the shoreline?
(knowing a wave doesn’t break / curl without the wave being twice the depth of water)
-Is it the approach angle of the waves relative to the shoreline?
-Is it some tidal effect that North based waves or the tradewinds influence?
-Does the wave enter a closed cove where it amplifies the effect, like a splash into a closed corner of a hot-tub?
-Or is it some far lesser thing, like hype & marketing? (hoping not)
I’m from the early days of Kelly Slater’s career, and it seemed like he dominated the very early 90’s but he was always extra successful in North Shore, where I can’t even tell you if it’s a LHB or a RHB (think it’s always a LHB, but not even that can I say confidently).
Can you give us some “super-tech” about North Shore?
Pretty please?
With Hawaii-grown sugar on top?
Yes, I’m a science geek for the way excellent enviroments make for our boardsports.
Isn’t any boardsport enthusiast??
)So we all hear about the venerable “North Shore waves” - and as a middle-ager whose snowboarded on season passes to Mt. Baker nearing 2 decades -
What is it about the North Shore?
-Is it the sand angle/coral reef angle that makes for the wave break?
-Is it flat seabed a long ways to make a consistent break before the shoreline?
(knowing a wave doesn’t break / curl without the wave being twice the depth of water)
-Is it the approach angle of the waves relative to the shoreline?
-Is it some tidal effect that North based waves or the tradewinds influence?
-Does the wave enter a closed cove where it amplifies the effect, like a splash into a closed corner of a hot-tub?
-Or is it some far lesser thing, like hype & marketing? (hoping not)
I’m from the early days of Kelly Slater’s career, and it seemed like he dominated the very early 90’s but he was always extra successful in North Shore, where I can’t even tell you if it’s a LHB or a RHB (think it’s always a LHB, but not even that can I say confidently).
Can you give us some “super-tech” about North Shore?
Pretty please?
With Hawaii-grown sugar on top?
Yes, I’m a science geek for the way excellent enviroments make for our boardsports.
Isn’t any boardsport enthusiast??
LS1FJ40
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@Aloha Jen - OK, so I hate to derail any “super-tech” talk myself - (OK, so I’m not guilt-ridden, but how else do I segue to tourism/Hawaii talk?
So we all hear about the venerable “North Shore waves” - and as a middle-ager whose snowboarded on season passes to Mt. Baker nearing 2 decades -
What is it about the North Shore?
-Is it the sand angle/coral reef angle that makes for the wave break?
-Is it flat seabed a long ways to make a consistent break before the shoreline?
(knowing a wave doesn’t break / curl without the wave being twice the depth of water)
-Is it the approach angle of the waves relative to the shoreline?
-Is it some tidal effect that North based waves or the tradewinds influence?
-Does the wave enter a closed cove where it amplifies the effect, like a splash into a closed corner of a hot-tub?
-Or is it some far lesser thing, like hype & marketing? (hoping not)
I’m from the early days of Kelly Slater’s career, and it seemed like he dominated the very early 90’s but he was always extra successful in North Shore, where I can’t even tell you if it’s a LHB or a RHB (think it’s always a LHB, but not even that can I say confidently).
Can you give us some “super-tech” about North Shore?
Pretty please?
With Hawaii-grown sugar on top?
Yes, I’m a science geek for the way excellent enviroments make for our boardsports.
Isn’t any boardsport enthusiast??
I just fell asleep...
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It’s definately not hype and marketing, there is a very good reason the north shore of O’ahu is called the “7 mile miracle”. But in reality, most of the other Hawaiian islands northern shore’s have world class surfspots in the winter as well.@Aloha Jen - OK, so I hate to derail any “super-tech” talk myself - (OK, so I’m not guilt-ridden, but how else do I segue to tourism/Hawaii talk?
So we all hear about the venerable “North Shore waves” - and as a middle-ager whose snowboarded on season passes to Mt. Baker nearing 2 decades -
What is it about the North Shore?
-Is it the sand angle/coral reef angle that makes for the wave break?
-Is it flat seabed a long ways to make a consistent break before the shoreline?
(knowing a wave doesn’t break / curl without the wave being twice the depth of water)
-Is it the approach angle of the waves relative to the shoreline?
-Is it some tidal effect that North based waves or the tradewinds influence?
-Does the wave enter a closed cove where it amplifies the effect, like a splash into a closed corner of a hot-tub?
-Or is it some far lesser thing, like hype & marketing? (hoping not)
I’m from the early days of Kelly Slater’s career, and it seemed like he dominated the very early 90’s but he was always extra successful in North Shore, where I can’t even tell you if it’s a LHB or a RHB (think it’s always a LHB, but not even that can I say confidently).
Can you give us some “super-tech” about North Shore?
Pretty please?
With Hawaii-grown sugar on top?
Yes, I’m a science geek for the way excellent enviroments make for our boardsports.
Isn’t any boardsport enthusiast??
The waves get really good here because of most of the reasons you listed, except for the long flat sea floor example. It’s the opposite actually, waves come out of deep water and hit shallow reefs and jack up in size.
When it gets big, it gets scary and dangerous, definitely something to be respected. But this stretch of the north shore on O’ahu has nearly 30 different spots both right and left breaks. For those Texans living in land locked Iowa that have no idea what we are talking about, here are some good video examples.
But you can stay awake for multi page threads about sodemy and flat bill debates? Yeah....sometimes I read your guys chat discussions!! But I’m not judging, I accept everyone’s lifestyle choices.
@Aloha Jen are you impacted by the volcano or earthquakes?
Always good when this thread shows back up in my watched threads. Hawaii is definitely a place I need to visit.
I was wondering the same thing. Thats why I came in here.
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Little to no impact to me, I’m on O’ahu, a few islands over from the Big Island of Hawaii. All the drama is about 235 miles away from me.....it’s nice, sunny, and quiet in my backyard for now.
Glad to hear that. I have no experience with any eruptions near us, but with the forest fires the smoke and ashes can travel quite a ways in the winds.
Texans don't live in Iowa, those are Iowans.....just saying!
Thanks a bunch for the videos...terrific! I visited the north shore several times in the 1990's. Saw 18 foot waves a couple of times and it was surf at your own risk....as in they weren't coming out to save you. I also visited once when they were having 30 foot waves. The beach was blocked off and no one was surfing. The waves were "too close together"? A 30 foot wave is like a mountain. Unbelievable. I have heard the North Shore sometimes has waves up to 70 feet. Have you seen them that large?
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Yes, I know.....that was an attempt to make a joke about LS1FJ40 and his unresolved feelings for Texas.
