It is not Palikir and you have not been there.
I will not tell you where it is...
But I might take you down there if the timming is right.
High Surf
PMZ173-170500-
POHNPEI-
300 AM CHST WED MAR 17 2010
Some wraping into the north side. Boys are out surfing head high with very strong off shore winds.
…HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST FACING SHORES…
HAZARDOUS SURF OF 12 TO 14 FEET ALONG EAST FACING SHORES WILL
PERSIST THROUGH FRIDAY. THE HAZARDOUS SURF WILL SLOWLY SUBSIDE
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.
AVOID VENTURING NEAR EXPOSED REEFS AND BEACHES…ESPECIALLY ALONG
EAST FACING SHORES…AS RIP CURRENTS WILL BE LIFE THREATENING.
Coastalwatch/Surfing World on line story. Check it out!
http://www.coastalwatch.com/news/article.aspx?articleId=7300&display=0&cateId=3&
How The Wave at Palikir Pass Works
This wave does not change shape from 2 ft all the way to 10 ft like on this picture. After 10 ft it will start to do the tropical Shipsterns thing. Double up and wave on top of another wave. Here is Shane Dorian on a screamer during the biggest, best day we have ever seen.
Again, big or small it holds shape. Here is Neal coming from behind and about to enter that slingshot inside bowl section.
This wave can generate a lot of speed. Doesn't need to be big to be fun. That slingshot inside section will give you enought speed to push some turns like this even on a 3 ft day. This is Margo carving that inside section.
Straight north swell and south winds. This is the perfect combination for the best conditions at P-Pass. It can take some east or west but too much east, it starts missing the reef. Too much west and it dumps on the inside making the wave shorter and closing out. Most swells that hit Pohnpei are on the 4 to 5 ft range but we do get a few on the 8 ft + every year. This season the biggest swells were a 15 ft from the north in February and a 15 ft from the ENE during early November when all the east side came alive.
This picture tells a lot of how the swell works over the Palikir Reef. The Pass faces NW. This swell is coming from the north. As the wave hits the reef and starts moving in it wraps in up to 45 degrees into the wind. That is why it holds good under stronger NE winds. When you are sitting on the outside you might be looking at a lot of white caps and windy conditions. As soon as you take off that shoulder starts racing towards you and straight into the incoming off shore winds. As winds go it will work under nornal trade wind conditions, the usua NE to E winds or anything from the SSW to Se and East winds. Strong over 18 mph winds usually will make it hard to surf but we only gt those winds for a few weeks out of the year. This season the winds got bad around February. Last year they completely died out around late February.
Another example of how the wave wraps in. Here is Rick on the inside section. On the back you can see another wave breaking on the reef before it starts bending into that inside section.
Same here. Inside, outside. Pick a section.
Same again. Here is Neal doing a beautiful inside bottom turn as a new set dumps on the outside. This is a small and mushy day for Palikir standarts, but still really fun.
Acher here. A few pumps and you will be going full speed into that cutback section. Another fun and small day.
More P-Pass footage. Check it out!
http://www.surfline.com/video/events-and-promotions/kolohes-got-something-to-say_41657
Looks Like P-Pass But Is Not P-Pass.
For sure, not Palikir. Holds shape and specially size under most weather conditions. I have never seen anyone surf it but the people we took there.
This is a small 4 ft day. Palikir was a little bit smaller on this same day. As I say, every pass, or reef bend (as in this case) has it’s day. All you need is a little local knowledge.
Kohei’s Trip.
http://koheisansurf.com/surftravel_micronesia2010.htm
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I have been getting around 50 junk blog entries a day trying to sell Viagra or other drugs from Russia so I have put a block to any entry on the blog.
I just got tiered of deleting all the entries everyday. If you would like to comment or post any thing please e-mail it to pscsurfclub@yahoo.com and I will post it.
Thank you and sorry! Allois.
Our Office.
- Pohnpei from the sky.
My good friend and guest Ken Grieves gave me this picture. It looks like just a Google Earth picture but he did put a lot of work on it. Ken is a geophysicist. His job is to make maps. Here he did put a lot of Pohnpei pictures together in order to get the most clear image of Pohnpei.
He also printed me a 5 X 5 ft printed version that now hangs on the Halls of Fame at the Pohnpei Surf Club.
Thank’s Ken.
The Tsunami Day. February 28, 2010.
The lucky few. Tsunami Gang.
Tsunami Day. Pictures by Allois, Ken, Keola and the San Diego crew.
We had a ful house. All off them booked way in advance and their timming could not had been better.
.Australia, Hawaii, Brazil, Japan and the crew from San Diego. Waves for everyone.
The last week of February was clean and perfect. They not only got some of that but also a very fast developing storm that came out of no where.
It his smaller then predicted. This one came up saturday late in the evening. A few were surfing Main Pass and got smashed as the first sets marched in with 8 ft. PAlikir did start to show up with some 4 ft sets that evening.
On sunday I woke up at around 4:00am with wifes and friend of guests calling. The Tsunami Warning was on. As a business owner and responsible for all my guests safety I could not put everyone out there until things cleared. Once nothing serious happened in Hawaii it was on. Here are some pictures of the Tsunami day.
PS. These waves were not generated by the Tsunami but by a usual, regular north pacific low preassure system.
No Tsunami has hit Pohnpei in recent history or at all as we know. Last big natural disaster was a typhoon over 100 years ago.
Keola, Sol, Mike, Travis, Makoto, Bruce, Ken, Devin, Deon, Greg, Joe, Robert, Ryan, Franchesco. Thank you all for coming.
I am sure you have enjoyed your trip to Pohnpei. It wans’t like we stoped for a second without things to do. No time for fishing this time.