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pointing. The waves were at least three times bigger couple of fishermen tried their luck in the low surf. A
than anything I’d ever body-surfed or boogie- compact Asian guy practiced Tai Chi alone. A mom
boarded. Later we tried more fried shrimp at the Big carried a baby while a toddler ran around bopping her
Wave food truck in Haleiwa. (We worked up an with a balloon.
appetite watching those waves.) Heading back in the West was behind us so there was no sunset
late afternoon, some clouds boiled up over Dole drama, just the soft fading of turquoise water and
country and we were treated to a rainbow imprinted pinkish clouds.
sky.
OK, I’ll say it: “magical.”
That evening we walked out to Kailua beach
again. Barefoot of course. Near us, a group of locals
chatted in a circle of beach chairs. Further east a

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