King's arrival

As weather forecast was calling for high surf warning, huge waves were breaking when we woke up. we walked out to the point of Hanalei Bay at dawn, there were already many people looking out to see the big waves.
Bob who moved here 5 years ago, told us to come and see king's reef. I had heard about the reef from Laird as he had told me that he wanted to ride that waves someday and it would be a lot bigger than Jaws and a lot few in between. It only break every several years or so.
So it was very exciting to actually see what Laird was talking about.

The whole ocean looked angry . and it didn't look like they would accept any human to get close. Just watching the waves makes you feel so small and powerless .
I heard that Laird flew to Maui and rode waves there ( since the wind wasn't good for Hanalei and waves were messy and too big)
This swell offered amazing waves everywhere Waimea was big enough to hold The Eddie, historical big wave paddle in contest . Jaws was going off , and Honolua was perfect!
Me, I had hard time finding small enough waves but all around the Kauai island had wrap around, even the southside had beautiful waves, so I had fun riding small beak breaks.