Photo: Trekking the North Shore

The beach was empty as caution tape had been put up a few days earlier because of the very dangerous surf. The lifeguards had not "gotten around" to taking it down but it was perfectly safe. So we ducked under the tape and headed east along this most famous of surfing locales, the Bonzai Pipeline on Oahu's North shore. The weather was gorgeous and we spent a couple hours there dividing our time between basking in the sun and sitting on the edge of the ocean, letting the waves roll over us.