Kauai...
My question to the rest of you is, what beats Hawaii?
Seriously, even with all the tourists and chaos, the isnas is where its at.
I met up with my folks after a long morning of travel yesterday. Finally got to the home pad and the place looks sick. Right on the beach! Literally, like 10 yards from Kalapaki Beach. So stoked. Went down to Poipu today and spent the a.m. hours snorkeling, swimming and surfing. Its about chest high right now so pretty epic for longboards. Stoked!
Pulled a super lame manuever on my first snorkel today too. A surge came through and I grabbed a rock that had some urchins underneath it. Ended up getting about 40 barbs stuck in my three middle fingers on my left hand and it hurts like a motherfucker! Urchin barbs are not epic...once they get in you, they pretty much work themselves as deep as possible into your flesh. Now, I have black spots on my fingers where the barbs went in and it will prob remain that way until they fall out or my body just eats them up.
Ew!

Anyway, Kauai is epic...i really wanna buy here.

Aloha bitches!