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FreeSwim and snorkel in a crescent-shaped North Shore bay in summer, or watch surfers ride towering waves in winter.
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Banzai Pipeline
Banzai Pipeline is an outdoor activity in Pupukea, HI, part of the Oʻahu guide. Cost: free.
Ehukai Beach Park, off Kamehameha Hwy · Pupukea, HI
Why you should go…
Banzai Pipeline is a reef break off Ehukai Beach Park in Pupukea, where waves break in shallow water just above a sharp, cavernous reef and form hollow tubes. Waves average 9 feet and can reach 20, and the break hosts contests such as the Pipe Masters. For most visitors this is a place to watch from the sand, since the break is for experienced surfers. The name dates to December 1961, when a surf film crew with Bruce Brown passed a pipeline being built along the adjacent Kamehameha Highway.
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