Maui 30.11.08

Yeasterday i sold my trusty Mazda minivan. since it had gone from having one to having two warninglights in the dashboard i let it go for 450 $ took the bus in to Kahului this morning and rented a nice corolla from the guys at word of mouth. after that i drove over to Hi tech and rented a SUP board. some of my newfound wealth from selling the car i invested in a nice Manfrotto monopod with a head. wanted to try it so i went up to H-bay. the waves there was a little smaller than expected but i got a couple of shots. after that it was over to Thousand Peaks for some Stand up paddle surfing ! it was fun small waves. one thing with the SUP boards is that they are really heavy,big and they will keep speed on anything that resembles a wave or white water. theyre also really hard to turn. you have to run a mile to the back of the board and jump on the tail to kick out of the wave. i found out this when the board was just speeding towards the REALLY shallow inside. i jumped of the backed and tried to land flat in about 7 inches of water.. landed with the spine on a protruding piece of coral.. No im a proud owner of a "Maui tattoo" got it in a really unradical way, but i will of course tell the girls at the hostel that i got washed across the reef of Hookipa by a monster closeout :) i was bleeding so i had to get out of the water. drove up to the cliff at Hookipa and spent the afternoon there watching the big swell crashing on the reefs !