43 HOURS

43 hours after I left Cape Town, I arrived in Hawaii, tired, but stoked to be here.
Heres what went down the last 43 hours:

• Left CT 2hours to JHB
• 4 hour layover - hour on the runway waiting
• 17 hours 15 mins later, arrive in atlanta with an hour to get my connecting flight
• eventually get my bags 15 mins after my flight was supposed to leave - luckily it had been cancelled just like the majority of other flights

one of six screens that all said cancelled

the reason why everything was cancelled

• get told to wait in a long line, decide to mission rather, find a shorter line, pick up a phone to speak to a delta agent - she tells me there is a straight flight to hawaii leaving in an hour (first bit of good news)(keep in mind im grumpy after a long flight)
• so instead of going to salt lake city then hawaii, i book a straight flight there which includes food. bonus
• que more bad news. 2 flight attendants havent pitched yet. we have to wait for them. 3 hours and ten mins after we were supposed leave, we leave.

plane sunset an hour before i land in Honolulu

• i get to hawaii at 19:05 after a 10 hour long flight
• go to the carousle to get my bags
• bags dont come out
• i get told its still in atlanta and will only be here tomorrow evening. great.
• wattsy takes me all the way to cleggys place - finally i can relax. 43 hours later.

Now all that brings me to today....PIPE

Cleggy lends me his board, finds Jerry's old fins, give me a pair of boardies and Spex lends me a leash.

We get down there at first light. Its pumping!

I got a few good ones with only myself, Cleggy, Mike Murphy and Brian Wise out for like an hour. Then the crowds came.

I decided to call it the end of my first session and whilst looking for a wave out, i found myself sitting in the wrong place! Mike Stewart was on a solid 8ft top to bottom one and was pulling straight. i was right under it. i bailed my board and didnt have time to de-leash and dived as deep as i could. i got so worked. came up and missioned out, feeling rattled. Fortunately i didnt hit the bottom too hard and i cape up with a slight scratch on my foot. Unfortunately cleggys board got creased and spex's leash can now be used as a surfers leash!

I cant wait to get my own stuff!

Heres some pics i snapped from today.

mine and cleggy's zone

3rd reefer?

a lil nug - unkown