Hawaii

Had a couple of days nice small 2ft clean surf in Waikiki, Canoes, Queens. Rental board choice is great here.

Today we went over to the North Shore and it is awake, nice 4-6ft swells hitting but the wind was cross shore so it wasn't perfect. Rented a nice 9'2" Yater tufflite which was kinda a performance orientated and headed out to a point near Haleiwa for a couple of hours of 3ft beautiful rights. Only 5- 7 out on that break too.

Went back to surf n sea shop in Haliewa where we rented the board from, they have an amazing choice of boards for sale, but the boards they have hanging from the ceiling make your mouth water, about 8 Noll originals including a couple of Da Cats, a few yater and bing originals (nice to see them worn with ding repairs and all) and a couple of Velzys. Some real old simmons / blake era boards also. The place is amazing

Oh well, I have some cocktails with my name on them down in Dukes, see ye all at the xmas party in Clare.

TSU, Krusty, I reckon I will sort out some leis
Herbie, will do

Good to hear you're scoring some waves Dave lad.
Was thinking of ya when I heard about the quake off the Oregon coast yesterday.... glad no tsunamis headed your way !

Hope you're firing off loads of pix for the trip report on your return

Great news on the leis aswell. longboardirl/yourock.gif

colirl is over there right now - landed Monday, and was heading to the N Shore pretty soon after - look out for a lad with a huge smile, a durty big camera, with an irish winter surfers tan (has spent the last 4-6 weeks surfing Tofino island off Vancouver).

Can we assume all those wave heights are Hawaiian Dave?

All sounds idyllic, and sure no better buachaill to be there lapping it up! longboardirl/surfing.gif

Great news on the lei's is right, although I did bring back some from France so I'll be donning mine for the party, but a genuine lei from The Islands would be something to treasure (not expecting real flowers now or anything!

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Keep up the good work lad, it's a tough life eh?

Will keep it short today. Went to north shore yesterday to catch reef hawaiian pro at the same break i surfed earlier in week. Amazing surfing in 8 ft (hawaiian) surf. Then headed up to waimea which was really going off, never seen anything like it. Pipe was crap though, closing out with crazy swells breaking all over / outside, saw slater and load of other pros hangin out on sunset beach. back to waikiki today, rode a nice model t tufflite for 4 hrs in sunny, offshore 2ft, bit red this evening. shop i rent from has a stylemaster by the greek that i will take out over coming days. Will post more later, good trip so far.

sounds nice, you are making me longboardirl/puke.gif

What are the sausages like?

Poi is made from the popular taro plant: the 14th most cultivated crop on earth.
Known in scientific circles as Colocasia esculenta, taro is cultivated both in the dry uplands and in marshy land irrigated by streams. The planters of wetland taro built walls of earth reinforced with stone to enclose the taro patch, or lo`i .
Although taro is eaten around the world, only Hawaiians make poi. Traditionally they cooked the starchy, potato-like taro root, or corm, for hours in an underground oven called an imu. Then they pounded the taro corms on large flat boards called Papa ku`i`ai, using heavy stone poi pounders called pohaku ku`i `ai. The taro was pounded into a smooth, sticky paste called pa`i`ai, then stored air tight in ti leaf bundles and banana sheaths for storage or future trading. By slowly adding water to the pa`i`ai, which was then mixed and kneaded, the perfect poi consistency was created. 4) Poi was traditionally enjoyed with fresh fish, seaweed, breadfruit and sweet potato -- an incredibly tasty and nutritious meal. And when it came to eating poi -- fingers were the utensil of choice. One, two, or three fingers to scoop out the pudding -- two finger poi was considered the best! And many Hawaiians loved their poi fermented a bit, giving it a unique, slightly sour taste.
The bowl of poi was considered so important and sacred a part of daily Hawaiian life that whenever a bowl of poi was uncovered at the family dinner table, it was believed that the spirit of Haloa, the ancestor of the Hawaiian people, was present. Because of that, all conflict among family members had to come to an immediate halt.