Mai Tai Bar Paddle

Another Small Craft Advisory threatened to upset our Sunday plans once more, but paddle leader Eileen was determined to proceed with this event even if we had to leave our kayaks on our cars and walk to the Mai Tai Bar. Luckily, the SCA ended before the paddle so we unloaded and headed toward Leahi. As we enjoyed a lovely day on the water, Mark Ling, readied things for us at the Mai Tai Bar. Mahalo for hosting us Mark!

We encouraged people to use tandems for this paddle to reduced the beach parking needed at the Royal Hawaiian so I offered a seat to Nadine in my Malibu Two and she happily accepted. She used my backup Werner paddle and was amazed at how light it was compared to her normal paddle. The reduced weight turned her into the Tasmanian Devil and I had to repeatedly ask her to slow down as we left the rest of the pack in the dust in spite of a breezy headwind. She took advantage of the many breaks we took to take some great photos and video. She put together a great video recap that speaks better than words so I’ll let her visuals end this story.