Archive for January, 2006

no power and half a chimney

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

so we got back on sunday night to find a limb in the yard that effectivly severed 1/2 of our chimney off in the middle of a typhoon and no power to speak of. welcome home haole. so its a little cold, big deal. the big deal occured in the morning when i had no [...]

alas

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

alas we have to depart and venture back to the ‘real world’ today. one last swim is of course in order and remain salty on the flight. sunny this morning and only a little wind. im sure the surf will be perfect today as well! we sunned it up yesterday, snorkled, surf, swam…..sounds like a [...]

wake up

Friday, January 27th, 2006

so we wake up and our time’s almost gone, like someone just grabbed the egde of our carpet and is about to pull it out from under us. it seems like we just got here, played a little bit, and now its time to go back home! its crazy how fast our time has gone. [...]

holo holo = heave n hearl

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

so on our little boatrip today we went along the na pali coastline, which is the east side of the island and the side that has no roads and no civilization on it. on the way, though early, we got to watch of spinner dolphins in alpha-sleep breaching. saw most of the coastline, tons of [...]

sunny sunday

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

so most of the days we’ve had sun, wind, a lil rain, and 78 degrees. well, today was totally differnt, we had sun, less wind, a lil rain, and 78 degrees! bizarre! okay but for the good stuff, yesterday snorkled turtle cove and saw a HUGE honu that tried to eat brook. got some surf [...]

infinitely thursday

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

most of us traveled to pakala beach today on the south side if the isle. we’ve been to this beach before but it never

north side traverse

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

something about the looming clouds over the direct area in which we were traveling should have made us think “maybe not”. but alas, our adventurous spirit, or stupidity, took us to the north side of the island again today. oh sure, its only 38 miles but its hawaii speed. slow. followed by stop. and then [...]

addition to the party

Monday, January 16th, 2006

the fifth member in the donner party has arrived from southern alaska. whiter than the rest of us, he should be a good burn victim for tomorrow. though mostly interested in birds, he’ll no doubt be subjected to the water tomorrow. b is trying to convince us all to sky dive. im in for sure [...]

day one im burned

Friday, January 13th, 2006

okay i feel like you could burn up hashbrowns, eggs and soy bacon on my chest. we cooked. i mean we fried right by the pool . woke early, sun shining, still a bit breezy but there’s something different about the wind here. it doesn’t have the “cut straight through you even if you have [...]

we’ve arrived

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

well, it was an insanely late night. got up @ 3:30 am and headed for p-town to catch the lift. its now currently 11:45 pm in kauai, 75 degrees, a bit windy, water is warm, boards survived the trip and the majority of the camp is passed out already. looking forward to warm surf and [...]