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Tracks to Pokai 2025
As I watched over seven kayaks waiting for their owners to return from the carpool to Pōkaʻī Bay I kept scanning the ocean for naiʻa, Hawaiian spinner dolphin, that frequent the leeward coast. I saw some splashes near the Kahe power plant discharge outlet and noticed that a tour boat stopped short of the outlet so…
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Circling Oʻahu
When I arrived in Hawaii in October, 2013 and joined Hui Wa’a Kaukahi I was new to kayaking and had only paddled a few times on lakes, a bay or a calm river. In my wildest imagination, I would never have considered paddling around the entire island!
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Mokulēʻia to Kaʻena Point — Stan’s Quest Fulfilled!
For a while now, Stan Dalbec has championed the idea of a round-trip paddle from Mokulēʻia to Kaʻena Point, to notch this stretch of the coastline in an O’ahu circumnavigation without the hassle of a car pool. Though Stan had tackled this route on his own before, the stars (and surf) never quite aligned for an…
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Easter Camp 2025
Ruby and I pulled into a nearly empty parking lot at Kualoa Campground A to be greeted by a mama duck and her large brood of fluffy ducklings. We hoped that the sparse crowd meant that the large group campsite would be unoccupied for the weekend. Tim had arrived a little before us and he quickly…
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Ahu o Laka (Kāneʻohe sandbar)
Seventeen paddlers showed up on March 2 to enjoy a leisurely paddle out to the sandbar in Kaneohe. We launched a little later than originally planned because low tide was around 10:30 a.m., which is a good time to be out there to walk around easily.
Stories from our adventures…
“What we most regret are not the errors we make, but the things we didnt do.”
Audrey Sutherland
