Boogie Boarding

This is a sand, sea and surf island and of course when you're here you've got to do as the Roman's do and boogie.

To rent a boogie board for a day costs about $20, for two of us that would be $40 so we looked on Craigslist and came up with 2 boogie boards @ $40 and $45, one of which included a set of fins.

We were set. Saturday and Sunday we boogied down at Makapu'u beach for at least an hour each day. The beach is white sand and approximately 1,000 feet long and 200 feet wide.  We were in the middle of a High Surf weekend. Usually in the summer it's calm but we were lucky and got the best weekend so far to be there.

You can see Waimanalo Bay and two islands immediately offshore. The smaller island is Kaohikaipu (or Black Rock). The larger island is Manana commonly known as Rabbit Island. Rabbit Island was for many years the home of a small colony of ribbits, but none of them remain today. Both islands are state seabird sanctuaries.

Makapu'u meaning 'bulging eyes' is said to have been a black stone with eight protrustions on it that resembled human eyes. Hawaiians regarded the stone as a 'kino lau' a physical manifestation of a supernatural person, in this case a woman called Makapu'u.

The high surf is awesome, though some of the huge waves are freightening when little ol' me is down at the bottom of it and it's about to break over the top of my head.

But after a while you figure out how best to avoid swallowing too much sea water, how to get on your board before the wave has disappeared into the shore and how to 'steer' the boogie board as you approach shore to avoid all the little children playing at the water's edge.

Jeff found Malasadas. They are doughnuts with no holes basically. And the most famous place here that serves them is Leonards. On our third trip to Leonards in nearly as many days the lady behind the counter said to Jeff 'Again?' Since then we've cooled it off a bit, but I feel a Malasada run in the offing.

The weather of course is gorgeous. If ever there was a perfect place this could be close to it. Though it gets a little too hot in the day for my liking, I just avoid it. That way I get the best of the gorgeous weather, the least of the humid and intense heat at mid-day, yet still get some color and a healthier look. Mostly of course that's all freckles.

Sunday evening we watched the second part of 4400, about the alien abductees who are returned to earth many years after their abduction. It's pretty good. But I can see that it could become like '24', too much of the same thing every episode. So I don't think I'll miss it when I go to Thailand. Actually I'm very surprised at how little television I'm viewing. The withdrawal symptoms aren't that much really.

The neighbors house which is just right in front of us ( you should see the straight up mountain at the back of us!) and it's a Mom and her son. The son plays base guitar and practises that and singing. It's not a bit irritating nor is he too loud or obnoxious so we don't mind at all. In fact it's quite pleasant to hear it in the air.