02 December 2007

How about those Rainbow Warriors!

On a tiny island, in a tiny room listening to tiny computer speaker, on an atoll 600 miles to the Northwest of Aloha Stadium, there was rejoice.

Washington 28 (12) Hawai'i 35

And there was dancing in the colony. This after C. Brennan's go-ahead TD pass within the final minute.


When the ball bounced off the UW receiver's chest and was intercepted in the endzone in the final seconds, relief and celebration broke out.

Tern Island, French Frigate Shoals atoll, Northwestern Islands, Hawai'i yells back at O'ahu and the main islands, "PERFECT 12-0, Go 'Bows!!."

We yell even louder toward the mainland and the sleeping East Coast writers and poll voters, "B - C - S BOWL!!!!"

This morning, on Tern I., the several thousand Hawai'i fans are sky high. They all want Sugar Bowl Shirts.

Though they can never find shirt sizes in albatross (Laysan & Black-footed first 2 pics) or frigatebird(female Great Frigatebird pic above), they remain hopeful.

What a season. Congrats UH-Manoa, students, alum, fans. Congrats main islands. Congrats O'ahu and Honolulu. Congrats to the O family, longtime season ticket holders and dear friends of my family and me.

From ALL of Hawai'i, Nihoa and Necker Islands and way up the NW Chain to Kure
atoll...

In the middle, between the Big Island and Kure, French Frigate Shoals atoll says

GO 'BOWS!!!!!!!


-mwyork

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Go Sugar BOWS. Loved the dancing in the colonies and all other pics and repartee! Wonderful entry!
JLY

Anonymous said...

Matt,
Great pictures, great commentary. Now lets see if the ocean is mightier than the bayou.
Thanks for the continuing flow of pictures...remarkable.
bd

MWYork said...

The ocean becomes less and less pacific as we push toward winter. The waves are quite tall and powerful where open & deep ocean meet shallow reef. Tern I. sees this to the north and the island is on the north "edge" of the reef & atoll.

The underwater currents must certainly be stronger than the bayou's currents. Though I've never snorkelled the latter.

Thanks for reading.

paz