http://files.legendarysurfers.com/surf/legends/ls03_moikeha.html
a lengthy read
Mo`ikeha’s Marriage on Kaua`i
After Mo`ikeha and crew left O`ahu, they arrived at Kaua`i. Fornander has them setting anchor at Wailua, near Kapa`a. Most legends have them in the area of a famous Kaua`i surf break named Maka`iwa, between Wailua and Kapa`a. It was dark by the time they arrived, so they didn’t land right away. Instead, they moored their canoe offshore. Early the next morning, people saw this double-hulled canoe floating offshore with the kapu sticks of a chief aboard. The canoe was brought ashore and the travellers disembarked.
Their arrival coincided with a rise in the swell at the eastside beaches on Kaua`i.
Among the earliest of the best known surfing areas was Kaua`i’s curving surf at Maka`iwa,
Although Maka`iwa’s exact location is unknown,
The locals were gathering at Maka`iwa to go surfing,
when Mo`ikeha and crew drew their canoe onshore.
In this crowd were the two daughters of the ali`i nui of Kaua`i,
Ho`oipoikamalanai and Hinauu.
Mo`ikeha and crew joined the locals and surfed with them this
morning.
the study of the traveling tahitian surfer chief sailor navigator
finding a place to grow old ,
in the shadow of the
bending surf of makaiwa
is somewhere near where I live...
last broke good in 1993
we wait paitient and faith - full.
moikeha dwells at ease on kauai
...
where the sun rises and sets
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where the kukui blossoms of puna change
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where the waters of wailua stretch out
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neath the shadow of the bending waves of makaiwa
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moikeha will live and die on kauai...
many translations
just an homage to an ancient
surfer,
...ambrose...
a cultural refugee
surfing because I can.
well I think I found a way to post a photo or two…
polycolor on foam deck 