Tsunami Day - 2/27/2010

I was awoken shortly before 6am just before sirens came on warning us that there was a Tsunami alert created by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile. The Tsunami had a time of arrival of 11:09am. Since I wasn't able to head to the beach, I had to watch it from my fire escape lanai. It was an opportunity to make use of my 70-200mm zoom lens to take some action. Around 10:30am, a bunch of police cars zoomed along Kalakaua to evacuate the beach. Looking at the ocean, there was no action but a lot of boats had headed to open seas to ride out the tsunami.
The neighborhood ABC store which usually sees a steady pace of tourists had also closed for business.
While zooming to get shots of the ship, I saw a speck in the water...it was some crazy dude actually surfing the wave. I maxed my 200mm and cropped the shot to get the blurry figure on the surf board. I guess luckily there was no large Tsunami.Tonight, I also caught a glimpse of the full moon that I missed last night w/ the EOH group at Magic Island.