Tsunami warning

Saturday 27 February at 05:50 a really lowd siren started to sound. We had no clue what it was untill Clarence, the owner of the house, came by and told us that at 11 a Tsunami would hit the island. A earthquake in Chile at 8.8 richter scale was the start.
We slept for a little while longer, and again the sirens...

I woke up and listened to the radio...People ringing in...The radio people were great with good info. A couple of people ringing in were not too clever. One guy called in, dead serious, and asked if the radio people knew if anybody would get hurt or killed from the tsunami in Maui...

We ate breakfast, packed some food and passports and went up to Makawao forest which is 3000ft (1000m) up.
We met up with Tracy and Dean in the parking lot where we hung out.


Me on top of the fridge bag with a lifevest in total panic....O my god, a Tsunami is on it's way. Save yourself...
Johan is still ok....

Hippie blanket on, he says hi to a dog in the drivers seat...Things are wierd in the forrest, ey?

Johan taking all his belongings. He is a survivor. He will be walking to the south were the sea is...

Tired and bored...Waiting for a Tsunami takes a lot of energy...

We actually did go for a run in the loop. It took 1h and 27 minutes. Elevation 280 m.

The Tsunami was called off so we headed off down to the coast again....

Hookipa and ping-pong!!!

Good prognosis for Kuau and Hookipa we hurried to the beach. Nobody was in, which is really unusual. What was wrong? Offshore, light winds, biiig waves and the waves closed up rapid.
Hookipa had some sailors out, pros only. Even they were struggling...But they cough some nice waves...

Shaka in masthigh...coool...

Fransisco Goya laydown...That is crazy...

More pics at: http://picasaweb.google.com/surfkate/Hookipa#

Good energy for windsurfin
We ended up in Kanaha upper outer reef. We cought some big waves but quite choppy. Biggest set mast and a half...
Last 30 min we caught some rides in lowers which were super clean and the size was logo.
A good 2,5h at Kanaha.

Sam Bittner http://www.sambittner.blogspot.com called me in the evening and invited me to tag along at a ping-pong party just around the block.

Here Mark showing how to play ping-pong american way in his garage...:-)

It was a blast. I had a great time with a great group of people.
Thanx guys!!!

Rock and roll in Kuau!!!

Kuau gave us some nice waves today. Masthigh sets were pumping in all day.
Pictures were taken the last 30 min of the day...


Dale topturn. Fredrik on his way in.

I got 2h the first session and 1.5h next session.

Surfkate in a topturn...

...bottomturn

A whale decided to have a closer look. This is not more than 20m. It is amazing to have animals in the water so close by. Turtles cruising in the surface having a look.

More pics from today:
http://picasaweb.google.com/surfkate/KuauFeb26#

Lesson of the day:
There are just about 400 species of reef and inshore fish around Maui.

Savers

So we finally made it to the famous Savers. It's a huge secondhandshop with LOADS of stuff. The Swede's who visit Maui usually buy stuff there, so we had a look. Johan ended up buying a book and I a dress. I'm not so very impressed though. Loads of rubbish there...

Outside Savers.

I run every other day. I did interval running between Paia and Baldwin beachpark 6 times. It's just sooo exhausting.

Every evening we have done a surfing session in Baby beach. You realise as you sit in the water and watch the perfect glassy waves and the sun setting over the mountain that life can't get much better than this...

Johan streching.

Wiev over Paia beach.

My morning strech-area. Not bad!
My back is slowly getting better. I am doing a full body strech 4 times/day. No painkillers. I have had 2 Chiropractor treatments so far. Looking at the forecast there is loads of wind coming, so I'll probably need some more treatment...

Lesson of the day:
Charles Lindbergh, a 25-year old pilot, emerged from virtual obscurity to almost instantaneous world fame as the result of his solo non-stop flight on May 20–21, 1927, from New York's Long Island to Paris, in the single-seat, single-enginemonoplane Spirit of Saint Louis.
He died 72 years old in Maui and is buried in Kipahulu, close to Hana.

Running and surfing

A couple of days of running and surfing.
The running is done in Makawao forrest reserve at 3000ft in a loop that goes halfway up and down the rest in a zig zag pattern:-)

Trails for biking, running and hiking.

The evenings has been dedicated to surfing. So again Baby beach has done the job. It is really difficult to get in the water due to rocks. Even more difficult to get out off the water...
But you get all the waves by yourself...

The planes just above the water. Johan in the water.

Windprognosis from Thursday looks VERY windy...Finally some windsurfing:-)

Lesson of the day:
The last eruption of Maui's volcano was 400 years ago.
It was thought that the last eruption was as recent as 1790, but radio-carbon dating of the youngest lava flows indicate that the last eruption was actually between 1480-1600

Hookipa

A big day at Hookipa.

Robbie Naish shows how to do a laydown...

Ola has a tough way out...

Johan laydown...

Mark Angulo.

More unedited pics at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/surfkate/HookipaKuau#

R.I.P. Capri

My dearest Grandma Kate Christensen, aka Capri, died 17-2-2010 after a short period of illness 87 years old.

She was my idol and a fantastic cool lady who knew what she wanted and did exactly that!


Picture taken 1 month ago.

Capri, you are going to be greatly missed. I love you always...

Surfing Baby beach

No wind today due to clouds in the sky, but the waves are still there. Shaun and Johan went for a session at Baby beach.

Tricky to get in the water. Loads of rocks.

Sean over a nice set.

Johan doing the monkey stands:-)

Airport just close by.

More pics:
http://picasaweb.google.com/surfkate/BabyBeach?authkey=Gv1sRgCL_P5Zrb55CriAE#

Another day of resting. Went for a short walk then a swim..
Hoping for a short session of windsurfing tomorrow.

Lesson of the day:
Unemployment rate is 5% in Maui for 2010. In june 2009 it was 9.7%.
I have chatted to random people who are a bit down due to no work and inform me that people are fleeing Maui and going "home". As I the say: -You don't know what you have until you don't have it anymore". Maui is a lovely place to be at!!!

Kahana

As the winds were northerly we went to the westerly side of Maui Kahana.
The guys rigged 4.7-5.5m. I was ofcourse at the beach taking pictures and streching. Being a beachbabe:-(
The waves were irregular and difficult to read. The wind not so strong. I am impressed that the guys were able to deliver some nice moves in theese conditions.
Some sets were logo...

Johan bottomturn with Rilles 5.0m sail.

Jake aerial...one of the many he did...

Rille getting into the wave.

Glen backside.

More surfpics:
http://surfkate.blogspot.com/2010/02/kahana.html

Loads of driving and queing.

To days of doing absolutely nothing has helped my back. I had another session this morning and I probably need to nothing for another couple of days. I'm starting to crawl on the walls....:-)

Lesson of the day:
Maui's main powersupply comes from diesel powerplants situated around the island. Maui has sun, wind and waves almost every day of the year. I find this extremely strange...

Repair day...

A day of rest after:

Broken mastextension, 2 battens, 2 mini battens...

...several haematomas after close contacts with surf gear on arms and legs, 4 lacerations on foot after reef, scrapewounds knee, arm, finger...

...serious pain lower back.

When I woke up this morning my back was killing me. I had felt some ache a couple of weeks, but today was unbarable. I contacted a Chiropractor in Kahului http://www.mauichiropractic.com/
I got a appointment directly and drove over to get a treatment. The Chiropractor has forbid me to anything at all for two days. I will se him again then.
I have to put ice on every 30 min for 30 min to keep swelling down. On pic I have a frozen milk carton on my back...:-)

Johan is working parttime from Maui. Excellent working posture:-)

So another day of doing absolutely nothing.
Weather today is nice and warm, sunny and loads of wind from the North, which means onshore on the North Shore. Maybe we'll go for a ride later and take some pics from Kihei on the west side. Webcams shows quite flat water, though.

Lesson of the day:
Kihei - Situated on the west coast, southwest of Haleakalā, the area was noted for its dry, dusty and hot days - with less than 13 inches of rain annually. In 1932 the government placed eleven beach lots up for sale. Only six were sold.
Even by 1950, plots capable of being farmed sold for a mere $225 an acre. Residential property could be bought for as little as five cents a square foot. It seemed that aside from a few scattered businesses, no one wanted to live or work in Kihei.
All of that changed in the late 1960's when water was piped in to the area from Central and West Maui and developers saw an area ripe for sun-loving tourists.

Kuau delivers again..

Oh YES how I like to windsurf:-)
Kuau delivered mast high waves and beautiful weather.
55l board and 4.5m sail. (5-5.5m)


Johan.

Rille happy with the day. http://picasaweb.google.com/Rillessurf

Good size.

Johan in a bottomturn.

I got my second point today in the Kuau Cup. 2 consecutive days. I took an extra turn on a masthigh wave and the timing was not excellent. I fell on my gear and got tumbeled...a lot:-) My mastextension broke and I am blue and red all over:-) So another swim to Tavares bay...

Lesson of the day: Maui's highest point is the vulcano Haleakala at 3o55m (10,023 ft). The name means "house of the sun" in Hawaiian. Most likely because from the west side of the island, the sun could be seen rising up over the eastern side of the mountain.