Serrell Kanuha is my very good friend Duane’s brother. He was our postman for awhile, and would frequently stop and talk story.

Serrell does things in a big way. After retiring from the Post Office he took up mountain biking, and he would tell his brother Duane to drop him off at the Saddle Road side of Mana Road and pick him up later at Waimea.

My son Brian told me that Serrell was one of the Ninja motorcycle riders that all the young guys respected and looked up to. His legs are all shot up from Vietnam but that is no obstacle.

I’m not surprised he is now out on the ocean. Serrell and Duane’s Kanuha ancestor was in the first wave of canoes that came up from the south Pacific.

He’s into stand-up paddle surfing now. Recently while he was out off Honoli‘i, he was as close as 30 feet from four or five whales, plus a baby.

He said they would all be heading in one direction on the surface and make you think they would pop up further along in that same direction. Instead they would do just the opposite.

On the left side of this picture, just outside of the frame, is Bay Shore Towers.