Happy Birthday Lily, we were thinking of you while we were crusing around the island!
Mark after a long afternoon surfing! There was a strong wind that kicked up so it was a little difficult to manuver a 11' surfboard!
Karen getting instructions from the experinced surfer dude...try to stay on the board...
If we had Meredith's photoshop we could edit out the sand in the foreground of the picture and make the waves look a little bigger, heck, maybe with photoshop we could even stand Toyke up!!! We did take Chad's advise and the boards that we rented were 11 feet long!!! That's tall.
I drove with Karen in the front seat and Mark and Toyke sat in the back and held the boards down. Nobody even looked at us so it must have been an acceptable way to transport surf boards to the beach. We were in Hannalei Bay where there are lots of surfers...the real kind of surfer...
Someone said that surfing lessons would be a really good idea...too bad they didn't tell us that until after we'd returned the boards! Toyke & Mark were out there first and made very valiant efforts at being surfers. Now they really appreciate those surfer guys. Toyke found that even sitting on the board was hard work. Karen was next to hit the waves...I was on camera duty!
She was doing great and having fun and then a fish jumped out of the water beside her, it was going faster than her and she started thinking about what that fish was trying to get away from....shark? and if the fish was ahead of her then there was nothing between her and the shark. End of surfing career.
I don't know any famous surfer's names but I do know one happy surfer guy. He's willing to try it again, with a lesson and with a shirt (Chad forgot to mention that surfing is a little hard on the chest so you should wear a shirt!) Another wonderful day on Kauai...
I drove with Karen in the front seat and Mark and Toyke sat in the back and held the boards down. Nobody even looked at us so it must have been an acceptable way to transport surf boards to the beach. We were in Hannalei Bay where there are lots of surfers...the real kind of surfer...
Someone said that surfing lessons would be a really good idea...too bad they didn't tell us that until after we'd returned the boards! Toyke & Mark were out there first and made very valiant efforts at being surfers. Now they really appreciate those surfer guys. Toyke found that even sitting on the board was hard work. Karen was next to hit the waves...I was on camera duty!She was doing great and having fun and then a fish jumped out of the water beside her, it was going faster than her and she started thinking about what that fish was trying to get away from....shark? and if the fish was ahead of her then there was nothing between her and the shark. End of surfing career.
I don't know any famous surfer's names but I do know one happy surfer guy. He's willing to try it again, with a lesson and with a shirt (Chad forgot to mention that surfing is a little hard on the chest so you should wear a shirt!) Another wonderful day on Kauai...
1 comment:
It is great to see the pictures. and it was probably good that the surf wasn't that big. I was a bit worried about dad and mark getting pummled by the waves. I went with elliot and it was pretty tough to get through those big waves. and then getting back was just as tough. but it looks like there were smiles all around.
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