Monday, August 31, 2009

OAHU Day 6 - HPU & Kiting the Mokes

This morning was the official check-in at the HPU Downtown campus in Honolulu, which took the whole morning.

The beast
Kailua home - HPU Windward: 15 minutes scooter
HPU Windward - HPU Honolulu: 12 minutes van
In the afternoon after got done with everything, I went by Kailua beach to check out the conditions. Kailua home - Kailua beach (kite launching zone) = 7 minutes.
This was the view:
The most fun thing to do with the typical Kailua light and gusty breeze (for a 9m at least) is to ride around the bay, making super long reaches. The wind is kinda side-shore at the launch, then it turns more on-shore further out on the reef. Once you reach the reef out, you can go back and forth almost parallel to the coastline, riding up and down the coast up to Lanikai, where the famous Mokes islands are. There the reef is super shallow, so there are some nice breaking waves out there. I felt like being in RObby Naish's RIP video today!

Aerial view of the Mokes

1 comment:

Pit said...

Beh dai Chicco pensavo che il motorino fosse piĆ¹ pattone...invece nn sembra malaccio!!
Non hai la febbre vero?? Foto con le scarpe?? e vogliamo parlare della polo con colletto?? e i bermuda sopra al ginocchio?? prendo il primo aereo e ti porto in ospedale ;-)
pit