Moloka'i Canoe Club

I go home to Moloka'i about every other year. Been doing that for quite sometime now; my last trip home was in July 2005. Whenever I go home, I take a ton of photos. This last trip home I decided that I needed to build up my color slide inventory so that I could have more images to work from with Polaroid transfers and Polaroid SX-70 manipulations. This image is a Polaroid transfer. Moloka'i Canoe Club is right outside of the main town, Kaunakaka'i where the wharf begins. Not much to it, but you can feel the energy there from the paddlers who usually practice in the late afternoon. When my younger cousins were still living there, it was neat to see them out there on the silvery waters paddling away. It's a pretty good feeling to know that you know one or two of the paddlers; an honor, really. Every October (first weekend, I think) there is a canoe race from Moloka'i to Oahu. It's a really big deal and the race is grueling. When my younger sister was in high school, she used to paddle and participated in that race one year. My only regret is that I didn't get to see her in the race because I was in college living in San Diego at that time and didn't know she was in the race. I would've loved to have been there for that. My parents never let me see the race as it involved an overnight camping trip down at the beach from where they took off. I suppose the late night partying and beer drinking was not something they wanted their daughter around. I'll post more images of this canoe club at a future date since this image is of the outdoor shower that they rinse off at after they paddle.