Introduction

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Page 206 The boy and the surfboard are the chief attractions at Waikiki. Today the surfboard is much larger than the small boy, as may be seen. In the olden days the board was not more than six feet in length,  but it would ride before the largest waves. Previously published in The Mid-Pacific Magazine Volume 4, Number 5, December,1912.

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Duke Kahanamoku, the world's fastest swimmer, makes his home in Honolulu and he may be seen  daily in the surf at Waikiki on his surfboard speeding before the waves that roll in at the Honolulu beach resort.

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What Is Waikiki?
Waikiki is the swimming resort, twenty minutes from the city center by electric car.
The main beach is in front of the Outrigger Canoe Club, open to visitors as monthly guests.
The wonder of Waikiki is not its beach, but its bathing and surf-riding.
There is but two

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feet of tide, and summer and winter the temperature of the water remains at 76 degrees.
Here is the home of the surf-rider.

Can a Visitor Learn to Ride the Surf-board?
Many do.
Beginners take their boards out a few hundred yards, where they can stand in water waist deep, and catch the waves.
The real surf-riders paddle their boards out to sea, where the great rollers form beyond the reef, and come in standing on their boards for half a mile if the surf is running high.

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Mid-Pacific Magazine A. H. Ford, Honolulu, Hawaii Volume 21 Number 3, March 1921 Hathi Trust https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hxh18y

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