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In the Lineup: Ownership aside, Tonggs sea wall belongs to surfers
Nowadays, I also get glares from vacation renters in the waterfront houses. Every time I walk the wall I miss the warm, neighborly local families who lived here before. Read more
Nowadays, I also get glares from vacation renters in the waterfront houses. Every time I walk the wall I miss the warm, neighborly local families who lived here before. Read more
In the new big-wave contest world, a gladiator mentality — charging head-down into the biggest, hairiest pit — is glorified and rewarded, even if you wipe out. Read more
Bulldozers line the Kuilei Cliffs at Diamond Head Beach Park, where the main beach access way, a paved public footpath, has been plowed up and cut off by a high fence since Feb. 4. Read more
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Not just anyone could surf Waimea Bay, the arena of titans. Actually, it depends. Read more
Next thing I knew, it was daylight again. I had a sense of dislocation and fear. Read more
Squatters have long occupied the hillsides, but over the past two months some have started living in tents on the beach near the public footpath and showers, which are often fouled by excrement. Read more
In winter, although the surf is usually less than zero in the South Shore off-season, I continue my early morning walks to the beach park to check Suis, just in case. Read more
Call it fate, or Maui mana: For the second year in a row, the world championship of women’s surfing was decided by the last contest of the tour, the World Surf League’s Beachwaver Maui Pro, held Nov. 26-27 in the natural arena beneath the cliffs at Honolua Bay. Read more
Big-wave champion Keala Kennelly is her own best critic. Read more
On Monday morning, as an epic early winter swell struck the islands’ north and west shores, Brian Keaulana, the Makaha-born big-wave surfer and former City and County of Honolulu lifeguard captain, called back for an interview and apologized for being slightly late. Read more
The first thing I recognized, as we arrived on Kauai early on a misty November morning, was the sweet, fresh air. It smelled of ferns and earth, waterfalls and streams. Read more
Alone, the sound of the waves breaking seemed louder to me, with different, musical cadences in different waves. Read more
Wondering what else surfers were reading, I asked a few local wave riders about the books by their bedsides. Read more
Along with climate change that brings more El Nino currents and big waves, we’re witnessing the demise of off-seasons, those quiet times when the islands used to revert back to locals, giving people and other species space to recoup and breathe. Read more
A brain surgeon, sewage engineer, a Hawaiian Airlines pilot – you name it. You can meet a wide range of people at the beach, especially when the waves are great. Read more
Now that we were numerous, the bodysurfers were able to get the surfers to leave; they are supposed to stay Ewa of a boundary buoy. Read more
You get attached to a place where people know you and are more likely to share waves. Read more
As she surfed her way to first place at the inaugural Surf Ranch Pro Sept. 9, the three-time world champion’s maneuvers were as flowing and rhythmic as lines of music. Read more
On the last Sunday in August, the evening sun illuminated a folding chair in its usual spot on a front lawn. But Lou Rosof wasn’t there. Read more
In Waikiki, crowds of locals were catching waves and throngs of tourists bobbed in the ocean despite the hurricane warning. Read more
To be honest, it wasn’t just my sinus infection or the tide that was making me hesitate: It was age. Read more
