Category: Paddles

It’s turtle time! On a cloudy, breezy morning, thirteen of us intrepid kayakers, led by Eileen Helmstetter, set out from Kualoa Point hoping to see some honu. We were joined by many of the ‘usual suspects’: Vice President Bill Murphy, Sandy Johnson, Tim Sawyer and Ben Burgess along with first-timers Westin and Siri in a…

The Autumnal Equinox on September 22 brought good weather to fulfill my quest to mark another paddle off my list, leaving just one more to complete my circumnavigation of O‘ahu. The Nimitz to Tracks paddle had been postponed a couple times due to unfriendly weather and I asked if it could be rescheduled just five…

As we all arrived for our Sunday paddle, Katrina and Randy glided into shore on a yellow tandem kayak. They didn’t have to park a car and were set to go. It wasn’t the arrival of Polynesian Vikings, it was more like a quiet Seneca Nation of New York canoe.

All hail the Windbag of 2024, Kevin Ching! Kevin led the field comfortably from start to finish. Kevin documented the event in the following video story.

Four of us (Steve, Terry, Roger and I) arrived to a beautiful calm, sunny day at Pōkaʻī Bay for the July 28th paddle. As we ventured out of the bay the wind seemed to be guiding us along and all was well in the world.