Today is my last day of the Trip. I got to spend it with my entire Dad’s side of the family for my grandparents 60th anniversary party. Everyone was there for the first time in years. It was great to see everyone, and the party was a blast.
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Today my grandpa and I headed to the Palm Springs art show. As usual there were tons of work that I really didn’t like at all nor could see how anyone would, but there were a few pieces there that were terrific.
After we had lunch, I went over to Andy Hurdman’s house. He let me borrow a wakeboard to go hit up the cable park (Thanks Andy!) for the first time. I was so excited. It was pretty empty due to the cooler weather, so that was nice to not be so nerve racking. I strapped up my boots and was out riding for an hour or so. It is very tiring, but they had some fun rails. My grandpa stayed around and took a couple shots of me riding. It was a great day.
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I arrived in Florida in the late morning. I headed to my grandparents house to drop off my stuff. We then went to a nice Japanese restaurant and garden. The Japanese garden was huge and very cool. We walked around for a couple of hours and then headed back to the house to rest. Then it was out to for a nice dinner.
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The February 2009 Issue of The Kiteboarder arrived. Two shots ran in this issue. The first issue is of Scott Laney wearing a gorilla suit boosting with a solid grab in the Slick. The second shot is of Trevor Murchie. This was taken on an unexpected winter SW day. We pulled out a couple sliders and a bunch of the crew came out to ride.
The March 2009 Issue of Kiteboarding Magazine arrived. The shot of mine that ran this issue is of Brandon Scheid. This was taken in early 2008 during one of my first shoots with the boys in the Slick. Brandon is doing a powered slim-chance in this photograph.
It was another early riser this morning. Pre dawn we pulled up to Ho’okipa to be extremely disappointed. There has been all this talk about the XXL Swell headed to Maui and we were supposed to be getting some by now. It was small, waist to head high waves coming through. It was still a good time, but we were hoping for a little more size. We were in the water until about 10am and then it was off to the Airport and on my way to Florida.
Maui was terrific. I had a great time meeting tons of new people, old friends and seeing a new place. I learned a lot and even progressed my photography a bit. It was a great leg of the trip.
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We woke up this morning just before sunrise. After looking out over Maui we narrowed down our search of waves off of Frank’s porch. We headed out to go check a couple breaks. The spot we rode was nicknames “Sandpiles” by the guys.
A few others joined us for the dawn session including, Bryan Altham, Randy Royse, Greg Sheehan and helicopter master Eddie. We rode there for a couple hours. There were some good waves that came through but the waves really backed off from the previous day.
Tomorrow is expected to pick up a lot again so we might be able to get a morning session in before my flight. After the session we checked a couple other spots, Kanaha was too far of a swim and by the time we got out to Paia the Kona winds were already starting to crank. We headed back to Frank’s house for a little R&R, food and editing.
Julien and I again headed to Morris’ house to do a little more work to his standups. Then we went to Hookipa where julien did Standup at Lanes and I shot Lanes and Hookipa. The waves were still large and there were some rippers out again. As soon as the sun went down, Frank came out to shoot a couple portrait shots. We then ran up to Haiku to go see Daniel the board glasser and then returned home for my last night in Maui for a while.
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I had got a bunch of editing done yesterday morning. After we headed back towards Paia. Julien headed out to Tow with Eraldo and Gerald. I hung out at Lanes and Hookipa. I took a nice nap on the beach and then Jon Modica and Greg Norman showed up.
The surf was large today, although my large is not a lot of these guy’s large. It was easily twice as big as the day before. They were calling it 6-7 foot Hawaiian. I wound up spending the rest of the day there shooting from the lookout watching the massive waves roll in. Without anywhere to store my gear I couldn’t head out.
I waited there until dark for Julien to come back in from towing. I meet up with Frank Forbes (the guy in the Standup shots from a couple days ago) again. He invited me to come to his house and then head out early in the morning to ride. I took him up on the offer so hopefully we’ll score something tomorrow.
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I’m not even going to tell you how we started the day today… after the coffee shop and some work we headed to Hookipa again. I hung out on the beach for an hour or so watching the surfers and relaxing. The tide started to drop a bit and the waves started to get better. I put the waterhousing together and swam out. The break was still packed at Hookipa.
We grabbed one shot at Hookipa before we had to move to a different break as it was too crowded to Standup there. We swam down to Lanes which looks a lot closer than it really is. Already at Lanes was Frank and Brian. I shot with the three of them for a couple hours.
The tide was really dropping out and the reef was getting uncomfortably shallow. To add upon that, twords the end of the session we had about 15 set waves hit us in a row. Duck dive after duck dive I made it out, somehow unscathed, while the boys were having a much tougher time on the inside with those big boards.
After shooting for a couple hours, the swim back to Hookipa was not the most enjoyable. Back on the beach exhausted and striping myself of gear I hear, “Hey do you shoot in Hatteras?” I look up and laugh, its Elliot Leboe of ACL Productions headed out for a surf. It was good to run into him again. We headed into town for a little and then again on the way home we stopped back at Lanes to shoot a couple sunset pictures.
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