Author: Terry Shimabukuro

We arrived Sunday morning well before eight expecting the normal early morning crowd at Magic Island. Instead we ran into a crowded park road with a myriad of serious people carrying racing canoes to the lawn area around the canoe hale. It turned out that the Kanaka Ikaika Racing Association had a big canoe race…

I totally enjoyed it and had a blast! This was my first time escorting a swimmer. I would definitely do it again! We were a little nervous, we both did not do an event like this before. My swimmer, Wes, said don’t sweat it, let’s just wing it! I smiled and said let’s do this.

The surf was up at Makaha, but that didn’t deter 16 paddlers from venturing out into the beautiful blue at our second Meet & Greet event of the year. Nine of the paddlers were on their first club paddle. I nervously watched the forecast as advisory level winds blew across the state in the preceding…