Outrigger

They walked for a little while and stopped at an open patch near an impressive hotel called the Outrigger Waikiki.

Rogue Wave Boyd Morrison 2010

But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger lanais

THE KANAKA SURF 2010

In the afternoon of the same day, Lee and Ida Barton made their shallow dive from the Outrigger beach, and went on, at a steady stroke, past the diving-stage to the big water beyond the Kanaka

THE KANAKA SURF 2010

As Stanley Patterson said to his wife, where the two of them lolled wet in the sand by the tiny fresh-water stream that the Bartons waded in order to gain the Outrigger Club beach:

THE KANAKA SURF 2010

Yet on the beach in front of the adjacent Outrigger Club, and entering and leaving the water, a score of women, not provoking gasping notice, were more daringly garbed.

THE KANAKA SURF 2010

Outrigger and a many-times medallist in long-distance swimming, had missed seeing the Bartons take the water, and first glimpsed them beyond the last festoon of bathers clinging to the life-lines.

THE KANAKA SURF 2010

We found it everywhere, from small bed and breakfasts on the Big Island (Thank you Hale Kai!) to the Outrigger hotel.

Taking the iPad to Hawaii 2010

The majority of the Outrigger audience was composed, not of tourist guests, but of club members and old-timers in Hawaii.

THE KANAKA SURF 2010

Not all days, and only on rare days, is the surf heavy at Waikiki; and, in the days that followed, Ida and Lee Barton, much in evidence on the beach and in the water, continued to arouse disparaging interest in the breasts of the tourist ladies, although the Outrigger captains ceased from worrying about them in the water.

THE KANAKA SURF 2010

Why, Lee, I learned to swim right here on this beach in front of the Outrigger.

THE KANAKA SURF 2010