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so today was a pretty nice day. it's been raining here for like a week...and it just stopped yesterday. i've been meaning to go to one of the many waterfalls around the island so i went to manoa falls today with my mom. it's an easy hike so there wasn't any real danger for her. the trail held up really nice, that one's out of water's way so it didn't get damaged much, and the waterfall was really strong :) very cool. i went once during the summer and it wasn't much but a trickle. manoa falls connects to about three other trails and i've probably been up to it (branching off somewhere afterwards) over a dozen times. those trails are by far my favorites...i know them all pretty well by now.

after that we came home, and i was bored and it was just beautiful about so i went out to kewalo's to surf. it was really tiny, but still rideable...and unfortunately low tide. i cut up my feet in what looks like five places...one of them might be two in close to the same spot. i got one slice on the side of my right foot that somehow turned into a cross....i can't really figure out how that could happen. i got them all by kicking rocks...instead of being dragged over them...so they're all shallow. i'm not even going to bother to clean them.

paddling in after the sun had already set....i broke my heart. kewalo's isn't really a 'beach' in the classical sense. it's a basin, actually. there's a channel that was cut into the reef (i can't imagine it being natural) that goes into a small boat harbor and there're these walls made of boulders lining it. so to get in and out of the water, you jump off this rock wall from this pier jutting out (it's not high....maybe five feet)......and then you have to climb up them to get out. well...since it was really low tide the rocks were really slippery.....and a wave came as i was coming up and i lost my grip on my board and it got kind of pushed up with the rising water and punctured a hole in the deck with a sharp rock :( i almost cried. it had to happen sometime, i guess....but the poor thing's only like two weeks old! i suck. either way, at least it was as i was leaving so it was already dry-ish (not soaked in) so i'm letting the repair resin dry on it right now. it should be ready by tomorrow....this stuff usually dries pretty fast.

it's always interesting in these sports that require elaborate equipment....skiing, snowboarding, surfing....you go out and buy this 4-500 dollar piece of equpiment and proceed to beat it up. so painful!



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