Tricky Tuesday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

So, take out your map of the Hawaiian islands and tell us what we're looking at here (#1)...  (answer below*)

Small kine waves today, rating a 2.6' on the buoy.  6.4 second intervals and it was a tad bumped.  Swell out of the SW 230º and it was 2' and couldn't quite make the jump to 3 on the outside.  Fun anyway and our Dutch friend Marieka joined us this morning.  She's in town to attend the International Surf Therapy Association's annual conference in Manhattan Beach.  They minister to Down's Syndrome surfers and those with various forms of PTSD...

Molokai is famous for their specialty bread known as "Molokai Bread."  Do's buggah's clever o' wot! It's a huge loaf of bread that can have butter, cream cheese, cinnamon and fruit filling all in the same loaf.  But if you think you're just going to sidle up and pluck one off the shelf of the Kanemitsu Bakery, t'ink again stupid!  NO, you have to wait until 7:30pm, walk down the alley that goes to the Zen Temple, then walk down this hallway with the exposed manholes to the window (#2) that they slide open when you get there.  You can't tell if you're going to a speakeasy or going to say confession.  If you're lucky they haven't run out and they dispense what might be the most fragrant, delicious and fattening loaf on the planet...

On the west side of Molokai they have a couple of long sand beaches.  This one (#3) was south of where there once was a Sheraton hotel that is now abandoned.  You ever see an abandoned hotel?  If Jack Nicholson came out with an axe you wouldn't even jump.  There was one person up in the trees above the beach and she looked enough like Jack Nicholson so's that we left her alone...  Obviously, not very crowded...

On our way back to Oahu, we went over Hanauma Bay (#4).  These days you can't just drive up and go in.  You have to make reservations in advance and promise you won't sully the waters.  The wheel you can see at the bottom of the photo belonged to our aircraft.  A single engine SAAB Caravan III, it made the crossing in about an half an hour.  No, the wheels are supposed to stay out like that.  You have to get the model IV for the retractable landing gear...

*The answer is:  The backside of Diamond Head!  We got tired of all of the front side shots and decided to change things up...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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