what's in a name

Ever Googled yourself? Every once in a while I get so bored I do. Normally doing a google search for Heeble doesn't bring up much - just a couple of people that have copied my unique internet handle - but this time I found something new and it made me laugh out loud. You probably won't enjoy it as much as I did, but it does bring a whole new meaning to my name.

http://www.diclib.com/cgi-bin/d1.cgi?l=en&base=amslang&page=showid&id=4577

Someone who knows me obviously set this up to sully my reputation, methinks.

Paddling

So things have been pretty status-quo the last couple months. The regatta season of paddling is over and it's now the middle of the long-distance season. Here are some pictures of yesterday's race. We started from Kahului harbor and came around the top of West Maui to about Canoe Beach - a total of 33 miles.

Here's the start at the harbor. They couldn't've ordered up a better day for us. I woke up I was so glad:

Here's us just out of the harbor:

Here's Joel and Kimokeo (Kimokeo's a bit of a local celeb and we were stoked he agreed to steer the canoe for us. In fact, he's volunteered to steer us rookies the next couple races, too. One race from Maui to Molokai and another from Molokai to Oahu.):

Here's a scenic shot:

This is Eric, Mike and Sam from our crew:

And here's a series of shots of one of our water changes. There was only one change I didn't play an active part in, so I was glad to get a couple photos:

So that's been the typical weekend. The surf has really sucked lately so life's been mostly paddling and work.