Evil Angry Wind Returns

Like a nefarious villain in a James Bond flick, the evil, angry wind returned to Maui today. The last week or so has seen pretty good, steady winds, sometimes light, sometimes pretty strong, but consistent. That changed today. I was out on my 4.5, but wind was easily 4.0 in the gusts and 10.0 in the lulls. Don't even bother looking at the iWindsurf graphs. They're either not working for Kanaha right now, or they are flat out wrong. Their sensor is located a mile or two down wind at the harbor and doesn't seem to reflect Kanaha's conditions consistently. Back to the wind - it was evil, out of the east, meaning very light close to shore, but once you hit the wind line, it was like, well, being hit, by a semi. Water conditions were also ugly with unreal psycho chop. Not that I'm comlaining. Just citing the facts.

Oh, the other news of the day. I heard this second hand. Apparently an airplane taking off this morning spotted "several sharks" close to shore. The lifeguards apparently closed the beach for a bit in the morning and went out and searched for them somehow. The sharks, being very adept at hide and seek, couldn't be found, so the beach was reopened. Don't know any other details than that,  but was the buzz at the beach when I arrived.