Hi. This is my video. I'm a Scot who used to bodyboard on the East Coast, moved to Seattle 15 years ago, then moved to Kauai in Hawaii. Started off longboarding, took up SUP a couple of years ago. Now I live on a river, about 300 yards from Hanalei Bay. I drag my board across the lawn, drop it in the river and paddle out to some world-class breaks. Gets big here in winter! But still a lot warmer than North Berwick on a summer day :) I like to visit this site to see you guys ripping it back home. I see dolphins and sea turtles out there almost every day. Stood on your board in the middle of a pod of 300 spinner dolphins who leap out of the water andspin on their tails, sometimes only 15 feet away, is something you never forget. When BP screwed things up so badly in the Gulf of Mexico, I started thinking: "How would I be feeling right now if that had happened 30 miles off Kauai, and we were just waiting for the oil to get here? I'd already just finished recording a music CD about surfing a part of my local break called the Dragon (The CD's called "Dancing With The Dragon", and will be out soon) I realized, while paddling out one morning, that the dolphins don't care what we call bits of the ocean - Atlantic, Pacific, North Sea or Gulf of Mexico. To them, there's only one ocean. What we do to one part of it affects it all. Oil from the Gulf could easily end up on the Scottish Coats. Places like Machrihanish and Inverewe get their mild climate from the Gulf Stream. So I bought a GoPro HDSurf camera ($270 including waterproof case and board mount) and went out filming...
Hi. This is my video. I'm a Scot who used to bodyboard on the East Coast, moved to Seattle 15 years ago, then moved to Kauai in Hawaii. Started off longboarding, took up SUP a couple of years ago.
ReplyDeleteNow I live on a river, about 300 yards from Hanalei Bay. I drag my board across the lawn, drop it in the river and paddle out to some world-class breaks.
Gets big here in winter! But still a lot warmer than North Berwick on a summer day :)
I like to visit this site to see you guys ripping it back home.
I see dolphins and sea turtles out there almost every day. Stood on your board in the middle of a pod of 300 spinner dolphins who leap out of the water andspin on their tails, sometimes only 15 feet away, is something you never forget.
When BP screwed things up so badly in the Gulf of Mexico, I started thinking: "How would I be feeling right now if that had happened 30 miles off Kauai, and we were just waiting for the oil to get here?
I'd already just finished recording a music CD about surfing a part of my local break called the Dragon (The CD's called "Dancing With The Dragon", and will be out soon)
I realized, while paddling out one morning, that the dolphins don't care what we call bits of the ocean - Atlantic, Pacific, North Sea or Gulf of Mexico. To them, there's only one ocean. What we do to one part of it affects it all. Oil from the Gulf could easily end up on the Scottish Coats. Places like Machrihanish and Inverewe get their mild climate from the Gulf Stream.
So I bought a GoPro HDSurf camera ($270 including waterproof case and board mount) and went out filming...