"Exploiting Hawaii is really going to bite us in the ass."
The Hawaiian surf legend and noted enforcer Kamalei Alexander, born, raised Kauai, has taken to Instagram to issue an ominous warning to foilboarders using the wildly rugged Nā Pali coast as the backdrop to photos.
“Just want to get something of my chest,” says Alexander, younger brother of Kala, and a peer of Andy and Bruce Irons, shredder from two-to-twenty feet. “Yes, I’m totally guilty of exploiting Kauai. I’ve used her beauty and her majesty for my benefit many of years.
“However, I feel that it was necessary for me to survive. Nowadays, people are coming, people from here, people from all over, they come here to exploit Kauai and her beauty and what really really sucks about it is, for example, guys going down the Nā Pali coast, foiling, to get that ultimate shot of them foiling down the coast. That drives up home prices here.
(Pause)
“You know what that does.
“It drives us out…”
“So,
“Note to everyone, you might just get a local (post cuts out…)”
Mark Zuckerberg, who owns 1300 acres on the island, and guy-pal Kai Lenny have made the sixteen-mile stretch on Kauai’s north-west coast a regular setting for their foil outings.
Read, “World’s fifth-richest man Mark Zuckerberg caught enjoying e-foil life with mystery woman off his 1300 acre Kauai plot; accused of ‘colonising’ the island!” and “In extremely controversial move, Facebook founder and billionaire Mark Zuckerberg emerges from quarantine donning ‘white-face’ on an electric foil!” and “Watch: Facebook founder, CEO, fifth-richest person in the world Mark Zuckerberg posts humblebrag video e-foiling in Hawaii, shouts out bestie Kai Lenny!”
Meanwhile, over at John John Florence’s IG, a new short of the two-time world champ foiling circles along the Nā Pali coast, cut to the Pink Floyd song Breathe, from seminal 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon.
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Good one but that was on Ummagumma.
The HPD show up at Ehukai Beach Park on good days as a deterrent.
I’ve only seen one real slap and the slapper made sure there were no camera’s pointed his way.
The fact that the slapper was set up in the backyard of a well known Pipeline family probably kept the cameras pointed at the ground.
Hmmm like Hawaiians exploiting Indonesia and Nazare? Oh, ok, I think I got it now. 🙄
Like most “Locals” on Kauai these days, Alexander has a blonde Mom and he is about Hawaiian as Don Ho! The Black Shorts aka stupid Fast Eddie Rothman a Jew from Pennsylvania, they are just brainwashed uneducated unhappy people. I lived on Kauai for years. Zuckerburg is saving the land from what would otherwise happen there but some of these guys are too stupid to understand that.
It appears the manifest destiny ideals of burnt out Californians causes disgust everywhere. Worst, is they haul their burned out ideals. This is the third state I have noticed the Cali’s have overrun not counting recently Nevada and Texas. After surfing Makaha for a few decades starting in the seventies they will never experience that era today and in the future.
Cali’s are only left with the scraps.
Played out? You mean… like your mother? You’ve spent your entire life “trying harder” and look where it got you. Good bye and good luck. You’re going to need it.
Yes, that sounds about white.🙄
At least a fractured orbital lobe and broken nose one would hope.
Live in Pompeii. ’72
https://youtu.be/dwgirj9ECFA
Just call out Zuck by name ffs. I know his real estate dealings (still ongoing btw) pissed a bunch of Kauai people off, and that it’s just the latest, biggest manifestation of an issue that’s been happening for over a century- less land for Hawaiians. But I don’t think electric foilboarding is the final catalyst to the apocalypse out there. The state, county and municipal governments could enact legislation to correct some of that but they aren’t. If the issue is sky-high home prices, that’s unfortunately been inevitable for decades. Blaming foilboarding is like blaming marijuana legalization for people moving to California….it is not a primary driver.
Meddle is a great album
Wow, racists are dumb.
could hear it in within the first ten seconds…bless all of them and those groovy sounds! Music to live by!
If you actually listen too Alexander and have even a vague understanding of the Polynesian people you can understand exactly what his saying.
Aloha does exist, it’s a big part of the place.
But when it’s abused and the real People are displaced locals will blow up.
It’s neither hard to understand or act accordingly.
Hawaii and it’s people give so much.
Maybe we should stop taking and give back some respect?
Look I have empathy with his plight, and incidentally it’s happening all over the world. Too many people.
But if he thinks a few photos of someone foiling off the na pali coast are to blame, he’s a fucking moron.
He should be getting up in arms about Jurassic Park and the tourism bureau.
Dude, you get it huh!! That’s awesome. Finally the one guy gets it. Displaced from where?! Nobody is arguing im indigenous to my area. Only certain people get to have that “privilege”! The “world” is a funny place. I was born on earth but not welcome anywhere. Lol, the irony.
Gone John Florence
Isn’t it only haole that are exploiting Kaua’i?
After all, haole are an invasive species.
The answer is simple – a Fiji-style land ownership apartheid whereby only kanaka ma’oli can own land, the same as Fiji where only native Melanesian Fijians can own land. Not Indians or White people, regardless of citizenship.
Ha yeah good one that means excluding anyone with the surname Ho, Garcia, Hosoi, Lopez, Arakawa, Minami, not to mention Rothman.
Would that be a bad thing?
Good if you’re Hawaiian (maybe) but gonna alienate every mixed race local whose family may have been there since the 19th century.
So we agreed. It’s definitely a good thing!
Everyone who not Hawaiian can go back to where they came from originally.
Eddies off to New York
Philly!
Israel?
Racist idiot.
What happens when I dunno, Dane Kealoha’s grandkid wants to marry a non Hawaiian?
All mixed race, Asian or Caucasian – not ethnic Polynesian, kanaka ma’oli so they would have no property ownership rights.
What happened to you?
Is this guy fucking thick? Blame the fucken tourism bureau or Jurassic Park, not some rich cunt.
Maybe it’s time for him to move to Niihau.
Zuck doesn’t leave the house without his former-Navy Seal bodyguard contingent. No one is going to crack him unfortunately
What a fucken puss.
Big shot Kauai land owner shit scared of his own shadow and not a fucken inkling how to interact with locals. Paranoid Paradise.
What a fucken winner.
#FuckZuck
No, he’s building a giant underground bunker instead so he can hide when shit hits the fan