NOVATO, CALIFORNIA

Oysters on the bay, Marshal Petaluma

Dropped off my appendix in Novato

 half way point between Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay

Sweet Judy Blue eyes and Captain Many Hands.

Half Moon Bay

Best poki and muscles this side of Point Reyes

 A little help from my friends in Santa Cruz

Ventura with brother Nick

Ventura County fairgrounds at California Street

Ventura Point

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48 years is nothing when you have an Old body with a young soul and a young body with old soul.

Half Moon Bay Brewing Company

LAST COUPLE DAYS

Tuesday: Only took me 33 min. from C street to Secos. North L.A.

Yesterday, Wed. C Street, Ventura

SURF TRIP

We should see the initial energy from Eugene creeping in later tomorrow afternoon, SSE swell (160-175) building Tuesday and peaking later Tuesday into Wednesday across SoCal. The steep approach angle favors parts of Ventura, northernmost LA, and Orange County. Size for exposures looks to be in the chest-head high+ range, as select magnets go a couple feet overhead. While there's potential it won't add any additional size to the S Hemi swell running, any swell from Eugene will help boost consistency at Southerly exposures. 

C STREET

OLD PCH HWY LOOKING NORTH

EMMA WOOD

Nice to be back in the home away from home

BELLA TEARING IT UP LAST WEEK IN COCOA BEACH

BELLA,....not on the mural....PLEASE, mind your manners.

Polynesian navigation

HOKULEA RETURNS TO HONOLULU....According to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, the Hokulea was originally built in the 1970s as a means of reviving interest in traditional Polynesian methods of navigation, which rely on the sun, stars and cloud movement for guidance.

Per the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s website, at the time of its initial voyage, there were no Polynesian navigators left in the world, so the Hokulea had to bring on Mau Piailug, a navigator from a small island called Satawal, in Micronesia, to help guide the Hokulea from Hawaii to Tahiti in 1976. 

“Without [Piailug], our voyaging would never have taken place,” the Hokulea’s website states. “Mau was the only traditional navigator who was willing and able to reach beyond his culture to ours.”

Tragedy struck the Hokulea in 1978 when it set out for Tahiti again. This time, the boat capsized during a storm off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Molokai. In an effort to swim for help, Eddie Aikau — a legendary Hawaiian waterman — attempted to paddle to shore. The rest of the crew was rescued, but Aikau was never seen again.

This most recent journey, however, was far more joyous. And, fittingly, when the Hokulea was preparing to come into port on Saturday, it was greeted by a rainbow.

IS IT REALLY THAT TIME AGAIN ?

 NO EXAGGERATION 

FINAL FAREWELL in KEY LARGO

TOM'S daughter Mary Fran and wife Debbie

Tom's ashes are incased in a paper thin biodegradable wooden turtle and cast adrift.

Debbie's sister Kate and Patty (starboard side)

A LEGEND 

The CARIB