Sorry for not being very active with Ke Nalu this last week. I'm in San Diego helping the family of my closest friend, Barney Li, who died last Saturday in a motorcycle accident. It's just kind of taken the air out of me, but I really do feel a lot more like celebrating this remarkable man's [...]...

My experiment with a paper-magazine style format is unsatisfying. I intended to update Ke Nalu (www.kenalu.com) on a monthly basis, but i found I was sitting on a lot of feature-quality stories that had a timeliness element. So from now on the only elements that will be monthly are the main two-column story and Stoneaxe's [...]...

A couple of weeks ago Diane got a new long lens for the Nikon–a 180 to 500MM. I just downloaded the pictures to my computer–some of them are pretty neat. She put the long lens on our big tripod and this was the first shot she got: Here's the second: Nice job, kid. There's a few more shots on [...]...

Paddling through the Blue Caverns at Catalina I like this article a lot–plenty of great pictures. I have a few more to finish before I can call the second issue "complete" but it's shaped up pretty well Ernie Johnson (of Johnson Big Stick Paddles) and his wife Andie, along with friends Allan Cheateaux and Jamie Peterson, went [...]...

I'm feeling pretty good about this second issue. Yes, it's staggering to it's feet a little, I still have numerous articles and features to finish up and add to the mix, But it's not April 1st yet–I'm about a week ahead of schedule in releasing this issue. I've decided that a staggered release over the [...]...