Category: Travel

Big Wave riders might want to head to the Gulf… and take the lookie loos too…cd Giant Ocean Waves More Common Than Thought – Yahoo! News Giant Ocean Waves More Common Than Thought

It turns out that the fish that got him wasn’t a barracuda after all, it was a crocodile needlefish…huh, go figgahs! –cd Swimmer nearly eviscerated by a crocodile needlefish in Hawaii Nineteen-year-old Tonga “Papio” Loumoli was diving at night in Hawaii when a four-foot-long crocodile needlefish sliced him from groin to breastbone. 2005 07 30…

(I look forward to driving them around while they bitch at each other …–cd) CNN.com – Despite feud, ‘Simple Life’ to return – Jul 29, 2005 Fox announced Thursday that the network has picked up the options on the contracts for both of the feuding friends for the fourth season of the reality show. Aside…

(The following is a pretty good article about the origin of the word haole here in Hawaii….a note to those visiting the islands…If you are referred to by the locals as a haole, nothing bad is meant by it..if however you are referred to as a fucking haole…get in your rental car, lock the doors,…

This story is interesting by itself, but the quotes in pidgin (Hawaiian Creole) make it that much mo bettah. Diver Hospitalized After Possible Barracuda Attack – Yahoo! News Fri Jul 22,10:41 PM ET An attack by an aggressive fish, possibly a barracuda, sent a diver to an Oahu hospital Thursday night. It happened at Kahana…

This is just a few miles from my house. Funny. don’t they have gaurds here? 5 boys escape from correctional facility Police are looking for five Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility inmates who escaped yesterday afternoon by going over a four-foot high fence. The boys jumped the fence at the facility’s swimming area about 4:50 p.m….

HONOLULU, July 15 – Hawaii is once again awash with mainlanders, as summer vacationers delight in its beaches and make themselves feel at home even on distant tropical islands. Breakfast at Starbucks, lunch at Subway, dinner at Red Lobster and a restful night at the Marriott or Hilton. But most visitors soon discover something profoundly…

Fukn thing woke me up. Glad it wasn’t big enough to send the tsunami they say we are due for. We’re overdue here for a tsunami, a hurricane, and a big fukn quake. If they all hit at once, maybe I can afford to buy property in Hawaii.