Flipped the kayak, swam to shore... well, yeah, but that was in July of 1985. Yesterday I walked the same shore and 'relived' the event. The hike was easy enough - six hours, blue sky, blue water, puffy white clouds and Kona winds. The kayak story goes like this... When I lived on Maui in 1985 my friend Mark had a 2 person Nautiraid folding kayak. We'd used it for a year or so to explore the coast of Maui. It had a danforth anchor and we'd kayak out to a stretch of remote coast, drop the anchor 20 or 30 feet of water and snorkel in areas where few had ever been. Nautiraids have theses inflatable tubes along the side and it is relatively easy to get back into them from the water. Mark had
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