SF, To the best of my memory ... you are the first person I've ever 'met' who does't know how to swim ... nor enjoy the feeling of wet sand beneath your feet, but I honestly believe that would change if I had the opportunity to show you a day on a beach in Hawaii.
Nuff said ....
I'm going to change this topic a bit and talk about some of the more than interesting people I've met while living in Hawaii.
Some of the names of certain individuals will not be disclosed unless they come on here and say, "Yea! Go ahead! Tell the rest of that story!"
But others will be named because it's all good stuff (which most GetBiggers won't be interested in anyway).
So if you are looking for the bad shit that may or may not have occured within an associate's lifetime, you'll have to read that elsewhere.
So Right now BUZZY TRENT comes to mind.
BUZZY was a big, big, big wave surfer living in a quansut with his wife (Violet) by the beach in Makaha. He was a jack-hammer operator when he was'nt on a surfboard.
Back then large surfing posters were very popular, so some big name surfing photographer was shooting photos of BUZZY from the beach during a big-wave day.
While Buzzy was sitting on his oard wating for another big wave, he had to take a shit ... so like any avid big wave surfer, he dropped his trunks and proeeded to do do.....
But a big swell got his attention before he was done .... so he simplly decided that this incoming big wave was more important and threw his trunks 'overboard' ... and proceeded to ride that big wave in his birthday suit.
Well that big wave with the nude surfer on it was one hell of a great shot and was eventually published with hand-drawn (no photoshopping back then) trunks to make it an acceptable poster for the Buzzy Big Wave surfing/poster fans.
That Buzzy Trent, big wave poster was a major seller way back then.
I seriously doubt that any of Buzzy's big wave surfer friends are still riding those monsters or are even still alive today, but a few of those surfers back then were paid big bucks by national TV news networks to be ready, willing, and able to ride the biggest waves to hit Hawaii at a moment's notice for national TV syndication.