Shootz! School Surfing Returns, Pickleball At The Convention Center

Cleaning up after heavy rains, a monk seal in the harbor and underwater action involving pumpkins and coral.

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Cleaning up after heavy rains, a monk seal in the harbor and underwater action involving pumpkins and coral.

High School surfing started its season at Ala Moana Bowls on Saturday October 26th, 2024 with 17 schools competing in the day long event. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
The high school surfing season begins with 17 schools competing in a daylong event at Ala Moana Bowls on Saturday. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
High School surfing started its season at Ala Moana Bowls on Saturday October 26th, 2024 with 17 schools competing in the day long event. In the boys short board event, Oz Globen (Green), Kaimi Vierra-Bell (Yellow) and Jardan Orillo (Blue) compete for a wave.(David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
In the boys short board event, Oz Globen (green shirt), Kaimi Vierra-Bell (yellow) and Jardan Orillo (blue) jockey to catch a wave. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
High School surfing started its season at Ala Moana Bowls on Saturday October 26th, 2024 with 17 schools competing in the day long event. In the girls short board event Kara Watson (Blue) takes off on a wave as Solbee Ahina (Red) paddles out.(David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
In the girls short board event, Kara Watson gains her feet as Solbee Ahina paddles out. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
A Matson Container Vessel waits at the Sand Island HQ of Matson Corp. while it is loaded with containers bound for distant shores. Photographed October 28th at dusk. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
A Matson container vessel awaits additional cargo at the company’s Sand Island headquarters Monday at dusk. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Monk Seals have free run of the islands and can show up pretty much anywhere, but this one decided to surface in Kewalos Harbor behind 152 Ahui Street to snag a little rest on October 29th.(David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
A monk seal pays a visit to the Kewalo Basin Harbor behind Ahui Street on Tuesday. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Saturday and Sunday began to feel like we were in the middle of a storm of historic proportions with rain amounts approaching double digit figures. That in turn caused ditches, runoffs, valleys and streams to burst their banks and end up in places like the Ala Wai canal and eventually the ocean. Unfortunately, liquids being what they are, have a tendency to find their own resting place and one of those places was the Waikiki Yacht club which saw levels of waterborne trash gathering in locations that heretofore had not witnessed anything like this. Here members of the club, gather the garbage into an area where it can be collected and removed. October 29th.(David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
After heavy weekend rains filled the Ala Wai Canal with debris, members of the Waikiki Yacht Club fish some of it out Tuesday, collecting it for later removal. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
The Hawaii Convention Center has officially welcomed the Pickleball world into its venue with the opening of 45 new courts. During the weekend of November 1 through 3 the Inaugural Aloha Pickleball Games and Festival will be hosting 560 registered amateur players. Kahu Kardell Kekoa offered a blessing which initiated the opening of the court try outs which were photographed October 30, 2024(David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
The Hawaii Convention Center officially welcomes the pickleball world into its sports venue during a blessing provided Wednesday by Kahu Kordell Kekoa, left. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
The Hawaii Convention Center has officially welcomed the Pickleball world into its venue with the opening of 45 new courts. During the weekend of November 1 through 3 the Inaugural Aloha Pickleball Games and Festival will be hosting 560 registered amateur players. The opening blessing and court try outs were photographed October 30, 2024(David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Tryouts take place Wednesday on some of the 45 courts set up for the Aloha Pickleball Games & Festival, which will run Friday through Sunday. About 560 amateur players are expected to compete. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Island Divers Hawaii underwater pumpkin carving contestants try to carve their gourds 35 feet underwater Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, in Honolulu. The annual event has taken place for almost a decade. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Scuba divers carve pumpkins 35 feet underwater Saturday near Koko Crater during a contest organized by Island Divers Hawaii. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Island Divers Hawaii divemaster Adrian Fouts wears the jack-o-lantern she carved during an underwater pumpkin carving contest Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, in Honolulu. Eventual winner of the contest Javier Martinez, left, puts his dive light inside his jack-o-lantern. First place wins a two-tank dive aboard a certified boat dive charter, an approximately $174 value. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Divemaster Adrian Fouts sports the jack-o’-lantern she carved into a helmet. Javier Martinez, left, took first place. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Maui Marine Project Manager with The Nature Conservancy, Hawai'i Tiara Stark searches Mala Wharf’s coral locations Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, in Lahaina. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
In a very different underwater scene, Tina Stark of The Nature Conservancy searches coral locations off the Lahaina coast Tuesday as Nalei Sampson, left, and Alana Yurkanin, right, scan for coral tags from the surface. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Annalea Fink cleans off a coral inventory tag with Maui Marine and The Nature Conservancy, Hawai'i at Mala Wharf Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, in Lahaina. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
The conservancy is researching a Maui reef that has proven resilient to bleaching. Fins from the surface and Annalea Fink’s fins are in view as she cleans a coral inventory tag at Mala Wharf. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)

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