Bodyboarding at Bellows Field Beach Park

For beginners of body boarding, Bellows Field Beach Park, a beach slightly north of Waimanalo Beach Park, is highly recommended. This is a good place to get started, as the waves are always a nice size, the waves are always consistently present, the water is shallow, the sand is fluffy, and it's just so God dang beautiful. The only problem with this beach is that it is only open on the weekends, from Friday afternoon, to Sunday evening. If you wander in to the beach accidentally when they are not open, a polite, but scary looking Military Security guy will come up to you and ask you to leave.

Optimum body boarding conditions are when surf heights are waist to chest or above. The quality of the surf may be clean, fair, or choppy without affecting conditions too much. This is a shore break so it does not matter much. Tide conditions are negligible, so you can go any time and expect pretty good conditions.

Today's Surf Information:

Go to the East (Hauula) Oahu, HI surf report.

Map of Bellows Field Beach Park:

Video of Bellows Field Beach Park:

Video of me body boarding at Bellows Field Beach Park:

Tips and Tricks on Finding a Good Spot to Body Board at Bellows Field Beach Park:

In order to ride the wave with your body board, you want to jump with the wave right when it breaks, so finding a spot where the wave breaks is important. Your body also needs to be out of the water in order to get a good jump into the breaking waves, so finding a shallow spot is important as well. The way to spot these is by observing the ocean water from the beach.

First, finding a good break:

After a nice sized wave breaks, it usually leaves a trace of water bubbles in a triangular shape with one tip of the triangle in the ocean. Find that tip of the triangle, and you have just found the breaking point of the wave. Find a spot where the wave breaks far from the shore to enjoy longer rides on the wave. The larger the bubble trace size usually indicates larger sized waves that will break for longer rides.

Second, finding a shallow spot:

Just take a look at the color of the water. The force of the waves tend to mix up the sand in the water, so the shallower a place is, the more sandy the water looks.

In summary, find the tip of a bubble triangle far from shore that has sandy colored water. Stand there until a good wave comes, and jump in! I hope that helps. Good luck riding the waves!