Rocky Point was simply amazing... If it wasn't for the crowds, I would have stayed there the whole time. Shallow reef and a turn in the beach makes a remarkable, fun, fast and difficult break for surfers.

Rocky Point...
A Surfer's Paradise

I guess I was too naive to know the first time I paddled out at Rocky Point. I caught loads of nice waves and simply had a blast! Several photographers complimented me and some even published my photos on their sites. I was having so much fun I didn't realize that Keana Keenely was surfing right beside me almost the whole time, I hope I didn't cut her off...

I had read an article on surfline about Rocky Point and Coco Ho.My surfing coach Josh Wilson had surfed Rocky's last year in his traveling past and informed me it was a blast. So without regard to the shallow reef, clear water and loads of surfers, I just paddled out and... well... just surfed my little heart out.

Paddling back out and surfing the next two days was quite different as the crowds seemed aware that this little 14 year old 80 pound Floridian girl had caught her quota of waves the day before and frustration set in as my father let me know that my wave count had diminished significantly. After all he was tied to the beach for hours at a time watching me and recording the session(s) on video and camera.

Below is a photograph dad took as the sun set west of Rocky Point and looking down the beach at a place called Gas Chambers. Notice the rocks and reef protruding from the water and into the lineup. The big rock you see in the foreground is called punch rock. I suppose because it's punched a many of surfers. Viking's Rolando repeatedly said about Rocky Point "I no like".

Surfing into the Dark
At Rocky Point Hawaii

On many nights, I found myself surfing into the dark with many of the hardcore surfers on the North Shore of Oahu. Normally I would have been frightened to stay out so late in the warm ocean waters of the Pacific (or any ocean), but the number of people made it easier to accept that there's safety in crowds and the sharks have a broader menu with so many different nationalities of people around. Brazilians looked yummier than me and I'm all skin and bones. Visions of Bethany Hamilton's accident went through my mind and then as I looked east, I saw the one armed girl paddling out! What an inspiration she was to watch a girl only a few years older than I and showing so much determination and wave riding skill into the night skies with me, only a stone throw away.

We saw Bethany Hamilton many days either surfing or exercising on the beach with her friends and sister. Dad often used her as my motivation for what anyone who believes in themselves and God can do, even when the odds are against you.

[My Saga Continues...]

Rocky Point was a place that I look forward to going back to when I get a chance. Surfsling has asked me to go back to the North Shore in the spring of 2008 and I'm looking forward to a spring break on Oahu's North Shore. Here I am sliding my tail around on another Rocky Point Left below. Rocky's is on my top surf spot list now.

Florida East Coast Surfing Photographs

East Coast and Central Florida Surfing Photographs (mostly) of Sebastian Inlet, RC's, Cocoa Beach Pier, 2nd light, New Smyrna, South Florida's Reef Road, Jupiter some of Central America and various other areas.

We hope you enjoy watching Savannah and her surfing friends grow up together and encourage parents and competitors to send us photographs with your stories to include on the site.

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Hawaii Surfing 2007
Hawaii North Shore
Hawaii Part 2
Hawaii Part 3
Hawaii Part 4
Hawaii Part 5
Hawaii Part 6