ʻEhukai Beach Park

In December 1961, filmmaker Bruce Brown parked by this stretch of sand to film surfer Phil Edwards riding a wave nobody had dared ride, while his friend joked it was like a suicide charge and nodded toward a highway crew laying pipeline nearby. The guide follows how that offhand joke became the name of one of surfing's most feared breaks, what sits hidden beneath the deceptively calm water at low tide, and the surfers and photographers whose names are now tied to this shore. Watch the water at low tide, when the reef beneath it looks almost lazy.