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Just another 400 meters to the left of Lakey Peak is perfectly shaped Lakey Pipe a popular wave amongst the body boarders. Now ‘the Pipe’ is a little more serious than ‘the Peak’ when it comes to scoring your tube time. Situated around 250-300 meters from the shore line and breaking in front of a more gnarly shelf of rock and reef. The mid tide rising is usually the best time to safely get what you came for, as the lower end is just getting to damn shallow. The wave itself has a fairly sedated take off, once you negotiate it and get to the bottom the wave then hits the shelf and throws out a solid backdoor barrel that leaves enough space to drive a small car through. This wave is suited best for surfers and body boarders with tube riding experience. Optimum wave height is always in that magic double over head range, but the Pipe can also take it bigger. Through the afternoon when the wind usually turns cross-shore and up to 20 knot in strength the Pipe turns it on for the more experienced kite and wind surfers. 'No-mans' is another section of reef off to the right of "the Peak" and down about 300 meters which is suitable for the more extreme surfer and that's a pretty good description as it generally just shuts down. While 'The beachy' only breaks in the lagoon with the big swells and is more suitable for the less experienced surfer.
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