Solo mission first thing in the morning after waking at 4am again! Leave the chalet before everybody else is up. Paddle out after a chat with my security guard buddies who recommend it here. Swell is dying all the time and the wind switches to strong offshore so it becomes hard to paddle in to the waves. Long periods without waves as a consequence but still catch a hat full, including one for Peter Kraus who I’d spoken to the night before, and is also the person who I will be eternally grateful to for introducing me to surfing back in the early eighties. Yours was a peach Pete, a long snaking right. The only other thing to report was catching my first left of the trip, so good to get a backhand ride.
Head back to the backpackers where I pick up the girls and a Californian named Kyle. We all head off to Pupukea with a stop en route for me to purchase a Ukulele for my travels. I pick up this lovely number with the white trim. Tidy!
When we get to Pupukea the others go in, but I’m saving my energy for a session later in the day because I have already paddled for a few hours. I tune my uke and get some practise in until I am joined by this dog who doesnt seem to have an owner with him. After a stroke from me he runs off and brings back a coconut husk which he insists that I throw. 10 minutes of playing fetch later he decides it must be destryed which was when I took the picture. Once suitably trashed he left it and ambled down the beach
The other have a good time in the small surf and this shot is of Anna and Alexa on the same wave.
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