Watch: Secret Surf Spot with Bathtub Water Tubes

Originally posted on SURFER | By Dashel Pierson | Last updated Feb 24, 2025 6:36 PM ET

As the world gets smaller, and technology races forward, and humankind advances into the fourth dimension, surfers face a problem. Granted, it’s a small problem, in the grand scheme, but still, an issue nonetheless. What’s the concern? The same one plaguing surfers for decades. Other surfers.

The surf world, as we know it, is getting more and more crowded, year after year. At marquee spots, like Pipeline, many folks are calling this season on the North Shore of Oahu the most crowded they’ve ever seen it. And conversely, at far-flung spots, the ones that take a little time and money to get to, those ones are being infiltrated, too. Alas, very little of the surfable world is sans surfers.

But maybe, just maybe, there’s a few spots left out there.

Ridge Lenny, younger brother of the multifaceted big wave surfer Kai, recently took a trip to the Solomon Islands, a remote chain in the South Pacific. And what he found was what many surfers dream of – pristine, bathwater tubes, just he and a couple buddies, nobody else for miles in sight.

Here’s Ridge:

“Located deep in the Solomon Islands. These were the most perfect waves I’d ever been able to experience. Not massive, but not a single drop of water out of place. The waves grow out of 1000ft of water and perfectly peeled down an ultra-shallow reef pass. The journey to get here required an arduous ocean crossing to meet a large groundswell with light winds. My two best friends and I surfed alone for 6 hours straight trading perfect waves. Not another surfer within hundreds of miles.”

It's not the first time we’ve seen the Solomons. Last year, the Florence bros scored some super heavy, super remote slabs in the island chain. And more recently, a reality TV star on a surf voyage via boat discovered the eerie Skull Island, home to the heads of “countless vanquished warriors.”

And to be sure, this won’t be the last we see of the Solomons.

This article first appeared on SURFER and was syndicated with permission.

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