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K KuKu Member Santa Cruz, CA. norcal Joined: May 07, 2008 Posts: 436	K KuKu Posted posted on Wed, May 7, 2008 8:14 PM Aloha All!!! KuKu Kev here, Just thought I'd give a shout out... How I got here is a long story but in a nutshell (coconut that is with lotsa rum, yum! hehe) I was raised in San Diego, used to play around the Bali Hi where my step dad took us fishing in the mid sixties. Surfed and danced through my teens and took lotsa trips to Hawaii (mom worked for an airlines). Joined the U.S. Coast Guard and traveled all over the South Pacific in the late seventies. So during this time picked up a strong lust for the "culture" and wound up in Newport Beach working as a bartender at NHYC. It's a yacht club in case yer wundering where I learned to build those fun rum libations that had always put me in a haze. Fast forward to the present, so I was in Waikiki to surf some killer south swells 2 years ago and wandered into Thor's newly opened gallery Thor Stor. He still had most of his original paintings there for sale. Well I left without purchasing one and a few months later back on the mainland I managed scrounged up enough to buy one. Trouble was he had sold them all. DOH!!! Well, awhile later he created a new series, "The Tiki Bar Series" and his first piece was inspired by a bar in Florida titled "The Hukilau Bubble Bar" and depicted four tikis drinking out of people mugs while a classic real life mermaid show took place behind the bar through a big window. WOW!!! I was floored, contacted Thor and bought the original. That bar is the famous Wreck Bar in The Yankee Clipper Hotel and so I just had to see this place for myself. Upon further research I found out about the Hukilau... So here I am and the magic of this years celebration for me is it falls on the weekend of my 50th. birthday and so I can't wait to go. I will be traveling solo and hopefully will meet some insightful folks who can help me out with info and maybe aqua int myself with some new friends before I get there. Does anybody know of a good place to rent a beach cruzer bike. Is there good surf. Do I really need to pack a pair of paints? Never have in Hawaii, just shorts. I am staying at the Clipper, have my Big Kahuna Pass and will be doin the Mai Kai thang... So let me know how much fun am I gonna have. Mahalo! Kev [ Edited by: KuKu 2008-05-07 20:16 ]

Aloha All!!!
KuKu Kev here, Just thought I'd give a shout out...
How I got here is a long story but in a nutshell (coconut that is with lotsa rum, yum! hehe) I was raised in San Diego, used to play around the Bali Hi where my step dad took us fishing in the mid sixties.

Surfed and danced through my teens and took lotsa trips to Hawaii (mom worked for an airlines). Joined the U.S. Coast Guard and traveled all over the South Pacific in the late seventies.

So during this time picked up a strong lust for the "culture" and wound up in Newport Beach working as a bartender at NHYC. It's a yacht club in case yer wundering where I learned to build those fun rum libations that had always put me in a haze.

Fast forward to the present, so I was in Waikiki to surf some killer south swells 2 years ago and wandered into Thor's newly opened gallery Thor Stor. He still had most of his original paintings there for sale. Well I left without purchasing one and a few months later back on the mainland I managed scrounged up enough to buy one. Trouble was he had sold them all. DOH!!!

Well, awhile later he created a new series, "The Tiki Bar Series" and his first piece was inspired by a bar in Florida titled "The Hukilau Bubble Bar" and depicted four tikis drinking out of people mugs while a classic real life mermaid show took place behind the bar through a big window.

WOW!!! I was floored, contacted Thor and bought the original. That bar is the famous Wreck Bar in The Yankee Clipper Hotel and so I just had to see this place for myself. Upon further research I found out about the Hukilau...

So here I am and the magic of this years celebration for me is it falls on the weekend of my 50th. birthday and so I can't wait to go. I will be traveling solo and hopefully will meet some insightful folks who can help me out with info and maybe aqua int myself with some new friends before I get there.

Does anybody know of a good place to rent a beach cruzer bike. Is there good surf. Do I really need to pack a pair of paints? Never have in Hawaii, just shorts.

I am staying at the Clipper, have my Big Kahuna Pass and will be doin the Mai Kai thang... So let me know how much fun am I gonna have.

Mahalo!
Kev

[ Edited by: KuKu 2008-05-07 20:16 ]

Post #378895 by KuKu on Wed, May 7, 2008 8:14 PM