The Bodhi Tree

Think of surfing and the obvious names pop up: Hawaii, Jeffery’s Bay and California. And there are plenty of other popular surfing destinations, but sometimes there’s ridiculous surf in other places that don’t register in the collective surfing conscious. As with any form of adventure travel, in the surfing world it pays to get off [...]

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Ask any shark freak (like myself) and they’ll tell you there’s a specific pecking order among shark tourism destinations around the world. I mean, you can see reef sharks pretty much anywhere near the equator, but where do you go for the big boys? Cause we all wanna see a great white shark, correct?
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This is the stuff of urban legends.  Mark Foo was a professional surfer, starting out surfing the south shores of Oahu, and later moved on to big wave surfing at Waimea Bay.  In the 1970’s, Foo joined the IPS World Surfing Tour and became a fixture on the international surfing scene.  His passion for big [...]

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Surfing beckons, as in the biggest freakin’ waves you’ve ever seen in your life, on Oahu’s North Shore. A friend of mine, Kane Ryan, was in Hawaii last month at the same time that I was there. The swells coming in at Waimea, Sunset Beach and Banzai Pipeline were absolutely huge. They [...]

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One of the coolest things to do in Hawaii is snorkeling in a pristine bay at the southern coast of Oahu, called Hanauma Bay.  This is a great way to get away from the tourist masses of Honolulu and Waikiki (that is, if they don’t follow you there, as it can get crowded).  Hanauma Bay [...]

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Just got back from Oahu, where I went shark diving off the north shore.  This was a totally different  experience than diving off a tuna boat with great whites for five days.  The operation was Hawaii Shark Encounters, based in Haleiwa…home of some of the most monster waves on the planet.  In fact, I had [...]

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