Yesterday I found out that a friend of mine has been missing since Tuesday afternoon.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Oct/27/br/br07p.html
Dustin spent a couple of months on Fanning Island this summer, and we’d been trying to meet up for beers ever since he got back. I was looking forward to hearing a fresh bunch of stories.
I don’t know much beyond what’s [...]

You wouldn’t think three 1-2′ waves at Kewalo’s would be transformative. Or I wouldn’t have, at least before yesterday. Especially in light of a few pertinent details:

It was raining. A lot. And they were big heavy f*@%-off drops, too.
It was cold, at least for Hawaii.
My board is being repaired, so I had to borrow one.
I [...]

I missed last Wednesday, but I expect to have sufficient control over my schedule to start the learning process again in earnest now. A small mishap: I knocked my board over in the house last week, producing two massive dings - one on the rail and one on the top. Both will need to be [...]

And by “that,” I mean the past couple of months, which were filled to the brim with work. *sigh*
Anyway, I did manage to get into the water a couple of times recently, for my weekly Wednesday session with SurfYoda. Happily, both sessions coincided with the biggest swells the South shore has seen in months, with [...]