Boy, the ocean got quiet for a while there. That stretch from mid-November into December we are normally awash in quick-moving nor’easters, south swells and/or clean groundswell, but from Nov. 16 to last week was pretty terrible for surf.

And that was hard to swallow because it seemed the rest of the hemisphere was getting waves. We spent most of Thanksgiving weekend bouncing back and forth between our local surf cams and social media, watching giant swell grace the North Shore of Oahu – crazy…