Photo by Mila Zinkova

On game days, surfers will have to wear their rash guards to class. I wonder if the school will issue 20-year-old surfboards like my high school did with warm-ups across every sport. In spring of 2013, Hawaii high schools will offer surfing alongside traditional and boring ball-based sports. I suppose they’ll compete among the islands since they don’t have too many other nearby conferences offering surfing as a high school option. Those Hawaiian high school students not surf inclined will still have options to participate in the officially sanctioned air riflery and bowling teams. Man, Hawaii really does have it all.

Photo by blahedo

The federal government has written Hawaii a $400k check to improve outdoor recreation in the islands. You’re thinking what I’m thinking, right? Just use all that cash to buy everyone on the island a Razor scooter. Nope, instead the Hawaii DNR will use the cash to pay for shoreline park improvements on Oahu and some nearby trails. Hawaii better hurry up and cash that check before it bounces.

A Hawaiian man completed what is believed to be the first ever crossing from the Big Island to Kauai on a stand-up paddleboard. It took five days alone at sea on his surfboard to cross the 300 miles of open ocean. He survived on dried foods and freshwater strapped to his board and slept on an inflatable mat that he’d tie to the top of it, occasionally getting awoken when a wave flipped his board and mat. He was treated for infected blisters on his feet, but was otherwise in remarkable condition. He wasn’t even sore - the hardest part, he said, was the mental anguish of spending five nights floating in the middle of the ocean on a surfboard.

You’re essentially forced to believe that something in the universe has it out for you if this kind of weather pattern interrupts your Hawaiian vacation. This volcano/tornado photos is part of the Extreme Exposures exhibit currently running at the Annenberg Space for Photography in LA. While I think we can all agree that the word ‘Extreme’ was overused to the point of nausea in the late 90s, it doesn’t feel like overkill in this situation.

via Boing Boing