Close-out at Waimea Bay 1969

"On December 4, 1969 an epic swell hit the North Shore. The surf was giant. Houses had been thrown across the Kam Highway. He had to circumvent roadblocks and resort to covert cane-haul roads logistics to make it to his beloved Waimea Bay, where humongous swells folded over and swarmed the bowl with frothing chaos — no surfing there today." — From "The Art of the Surfboard" by Drew Kampion (See Part 2 of story on "Makaha 1969")

Original oil painting in the collection of Greg and Laura Noll