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ANNITA ASHLEY ME ANN MARIE
pic from Annita Blanc
The first real NW swell of the season hit today. Everyone was out somewhere around the island. I went to Ho’okipa. It was uncrowded and pretty fun. I haven’t been in waves like today for a while so it got a little getting used to!
Earlier Nayra, John and I checked out a secret little pool.
My camera is broke, so thanks Nayra for the fun pics!
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BIG HUG!! It is so fun to travel but so good to come home too!
The Butterfly Effect France #2 was yet just another great addition to the Butterfly Effect Tour 2008!
The morning started on the Plage de la Madrague of the Ventilo Show. Girls of all ages and levels of windsurf showed up to take part in the second France edition. The winds were on and off so we decided to try SUP. I began by doing a stretch warm up and then a SUP beginning instruction clinic. For many girls it was their first time trying this sport and they all picked it up quickly. As we were paddling around the wind picked up. All the girls were full of energy and ready to take on the next mission. We decided to all hop on windsurf and tandem windsurf gear.
It was so fun to go up and down the beautiful coast from Al’Manare to Hyere. It is a beautiful location and can tell why people like to come vacation here.
After the event we were surprised by some rain at the end of the day as well as tshirts from a local company called local do mar.
It was a great experience and hope the girls will come visit Maui for the Butterfly Effect there!
Thank You Dakine for being such a great Sponsor!
Also, thank you to all the Butterfly girls, Steve from the Ventilo Show, and so many others. Much Mahalos!!
This is a pic of my new best friend in France, Laure! She was so helpful for the Butterfly Effect here and helped me with some important translations to finalize the event here!
I have learned so many new words in so many new languages, my tongue is so tied up now!
I don’t know what I speak these days! haha
Pics will be posted shortly! Check back in a bit!
CLick HERE FOR THE WINDSURF JOURNAL NEWS ON THE B.E.
GO to the News on the left side of the webpage.
It was another great success! I am super happy with how it turned out!
Far from home but still had a great birthday! It was very unique and one of the best, one that I won’t forget! Time flies! Can’t believe I am 22! WOO! getting up there! 
When I left Brazil my camera broke and that is why I have been slaking on the pics recently! Sorry. I am trying to figure out what to do. I will keep you posted!
http://video.google.fr/videosearch?q=multimono+la+rochelle&hl=fr&emb=0&aq=f#
I am very sad to say Ciao to all my friends in Jericoacoara. I miss them all so much already. They all made me feel so welcomed and made me have some of the best moments of my life. Everyday was incredible and just goes to show a simple life can lead to so much happiness.
The bus ride back to Fortaleza felt so long and was so sad! I hope I return to this place soon! I love it!
Bene is teaching me the Goiter and this one I almost got!
Click the link above to see!
Butterfly Effect
http://www.youtube.com/clubventos
I love it soo much!! I am so happy that Clieson did such great filming for us! Thank You Club Ventos!
http://www.youtube.com/clubventos
I love it soo much!! I am so happy that Clieson did such great filming for us! Thank You Club Ventos!
We headed out early in the morning from Jeri to go to Itarema.
It is a beautiful location with flat water inside a sand bar and waves on the other side.
After hours of sailing it was good to sit down for the Brazilian lunch.. fish, rice and beans with agua de coco! Yum!
No time to waste. We loaded the boat to a new beautiful location!
First Call:
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Video Call:
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At Kitesurf Mania news:
Butterfly Effect Brazil 2008 - The event History
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Calendar Report:
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Results and Saturday’s release:
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Vídeo of Registration Day at Windzen:
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At Windsurf Mania:
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Thank You Gustavo!
This event was so amazing! It gives me chills on my arm just thinking how cool it was! I loved it and I know everyone else had a good time too! I have so much to tell, I don’t even know where to start!
Here are just a few pics from a friends camera of the beginning of the event in Fortaleza and Cumbuco. There were a total of 31 girls and almost half windsurf and half kitesurf. The total distance we covered was over 50 KM ( Cumbuco to Taiba). We stopped half way in Pecem and had a beautiful presentation of every kind of fruit! It was so wonderful!
We have many beautiful professional photos and video.
The Dona Florinda Bus took us from Fortaleza to our starting destination Cumbuco!
So fun!! We were all anxious to start the mission!
Kite Cabana Cumbuco welcomed us to rig, stretch, and eat before we headed downwind.
Dona Florinda customized our Dakine lyrcas.
Butterflies from around the world were a part of this Butterfly Effect Brazil including Germany, Sweden, Israel, Norway, and from other locations around Brazil. It is so cool because now we want to have a Butterfly Effect in each of these countries!
Here all the girls finished signing up and off we went!
More photos are to come stay posted..;)
Thank you so much to all our sponsors:
DAKINE
Dona Florinda, Termaco
Naish, Hotsails, Mormaii, Club Ventos, Nivel contrucoes, Wobben Wind power, Kite Cabana
Besides Juliana Farias doing a great job organizing this event we had many many helpers from the beginning like Matt Howard making the flyers, Doris helping with everything, the design guys at Windzen, all the Butterflies for participating, the family supporting and so many more. Aloha to All!
The night before the Butterfly Effect we had a meeting of how exactly the event will happen. We discussed the plan, safety issues, hazards, staying in groups, going around the Pecem Pier ( 5 KM out to sea!!) and much more.
We were really excited to get our personalized Dakine Butterfly Effect Flags!! Everyone wanted to hold one!! Super cool! Thanks Dakine and Mormaii for making them!
We did some training and organizing for the event in Cumbuco. TV Cidade of Fortaleza came along to film for their News Program.
Wobben Wind sponsors the Butterfly Effect!!
Pecem - Second launch location for the Butterfly Effect. This is a little over the half way point from Cumbuco to Taiba.
My Brazil video is on the Hot Sails Website too!
www.sooruz.com
I am happy to announce my new clothing sponsor Sooruz!
I meet the Sooruz crew in France and they are super cool! I am excited to be apart of their team.
From the hot beaches of Brazil to the cold air of France..
Sooruz makes clothes for all!!
Leysa is a good friend and also on the Sooruz team!
Açaí anyone?!!
Packed it up for a quick evening session
The Butterfly Effect is going to be at the Ventilo Show in France.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT WHEN,WHERE, WHEN.
I will post more news shortly.
After Prea we stayed in Jericoacoara. The city is built in sand and you walk everywhere. Its so cool! I love it. Surf in the morning, windsurf all day, drink agua de coco, watch the sunset on the sand dunes, capoeira, forro dancing, panderia.. life is good!
We have been spreading the word about the Butterfly Effect and many local and visitor girls will be participating in the event now!
Windy days in Prea
I am not much a freestlyer but I tried my best and got second. Juliana won and Ivana got third.
The trophies are so awesome. They are a little version of the fishing boats that you see all over the beaches here in Brazil.
The Jeri local girls rip! Taina will be one to look out for!
Ivana in her new Dona Florinda wetsuit. Dona Florinda is providing a big pink bus to transport the girls to and from the Butterfly Effect! This is just one of the fun things planned. This Butterfly Effect is going to be so awesome!
We finally made it to Prea. We left at 5 in the evening from Fortaleza. The ride is usually around 5 hours, so we were planning to arrive in Prea around 10PM. We ended up getting lost not once but twice in the middle of the night. I think we arrived at the pousada around 3 in the morning. We were so happy to see the pousada and sleep!
The next morning we woke up early to prepare for the first day of the competition. The first contest was a downwind race from Prea to Jericoacoara. I am not sure exactly how far it is but it is far! We all began together on the beach for the race and than pretty soon there was nobody around in the water. No body in sight. This is when the ocean seems sooo big. Being in these waters for the first time all alone far out and far down wind became a little spokey!! I finally spoted some one and stayed close until we arrive to the finish line. I thought I was the only one that this happened to, but everyone said the same. In the end, Good Experience! I want to go again now that I know where I am going! Juliana finished first, I second, and Ivana 3rd. Good results with all the friends!
Here is where the Butterfly Effect Brazil will begin.
We are working very hard to make the best Butterfly yet. Butterfly Brazil is going to be sooo cool!!
Now we are off to Jeri. I don’t think I will be able to have internet but I will try!
Ala Feminina is a women surf magazine of Brazil.
Click here and check out pages 28-29 for the Butterfly Effect Maui
The Grand Pavois is the second biggest tradeshow in France after Paris for boats and water sports. In the Sunday news of the Grand Pavois they wrote an article about the Butterfly Effect. They talked about how it was such a nice surprise for a group of ladies to pass by in their Dakine Aloha wear paddling on Naish stand up boards through the harbour. It gave a whole new outlook on getting on the water in the boat world.
I was lucky to catch the train from La Rochelle to Paris with a friend from the Grand Pavois. Ben is one of the designers for Airush and had some time to kill in Paris. I had time between my flight too, so we checked out the Eiffel Tower! For him it was no big deal but for me it was pretty cool to see!
The train was so fun. This guy sang for us the cocoracha song! ahah!
The Butterfly Effect France was the best Butterfly Effect yet! We had so much fun and it was so unique.
This Butterfly Effect showed exactly what a “Butterfly Effect” actually means. We were a small group just like a small butterfly and we had a huge outcome in La Rochelle just like how butterfly effect spreads!
The wind was light and perfect to learn and do SUP. Many people have never seen this sport before here, so it drew in attention from the beach to the harbour.
We did some stretching and hula! Some of girls tried SUP before and a few it was for the first time. The first timers did so good!
As we entered the harbour, people started clapping. We made many friends along the way in the boats who gave us french cheese, chocolate and strawberries!
I loved the whole french atmosphere. It was great! I am still smiling!
We opened up the sport to more than just the beach crew, but to the boaters too! They all loved the idea and want one for their boats!
Spreading the aloha with the hawaiian floral rashguards of DAKINE!
DAKINE and NAISH donated some many gifts for the participates.
Thank you so much! With out them it wouldn’t have been possible.
THANK YOU DAKINE AND NAISH!
Besides all the wind/water sport booths, the main attraction at the Gran Pavois is all the boats.
After checking out the boats, we headed back to see the fake wake machine.
At last we hit the water an hour away in I’ll de Re. Its an island right in front of La Rochelle.
Antoine showed us his SUP spot. It was so pretty. The waves were easy, long and glassy. The sun was going down to our right and the moon was rising our left.
So Beautiful!
I always knew Antoine Albeau from Maui, so its fun to see him in his local spot of I’ll de Re!
WOW! Finally made it here, board / sail bags and all!
Its not quite the Eiffel tower but close enough for me right now. I hope I get to see the real thing while I am here!
We loaded up Yann’s dads van and chilled out a bit thinking I had plenty of time to catch my train.
Then they loaded me up with some french chocolate crossiant roles for the rest of my journey.
Catching the train in Paris is absolute chaos! I was so thankful for these two that I met on the bus who totally took care of me after I missed my train.
I didn’t know it was a hour bus ride to the train station! And then you should see how long the train is!! I couldn’t believe how much I had to walk. I didn’t even get to my right place on the train because the bell rang while I was trying to get to it!
La Rochelle looks cute and beautiful so far. I can’t wait to explore a bit more tomorrow!
This sign made me feel close to home. ” JAWS”
Cute little french house
and a beautiful sunset.
I am so exhausted after all this traveling, can’t wait to get some sleep!
I am off to do some Butterfly Effects!
20+ miles later we finally make to Kaupo! This was once in a life time hike! I don’t think I will be abe to do it again! 
Right now my legs and so sore! We left in the morning from the top of Haleakala and camped at the last cabin “Paliku”. It is an amazing hike. Beauty was everywhere and all around where ever you see, smell, feel, taste, and hear. Simply amazing. It was a challenging hike, but through every challenge comes out more reward, strength, and beauty. The next day we walked all day down the Kaupo valley. We were so high up on the mountain walking straight down..down ..down.. it seemed like forever! At one point on the way down our group was a little separated and I was following two of the guys. They went around a corner and past some cows, so I thought I would wait to pass the cows with the others. I waited and they never came around the corner. I walked back up the hill and no one was there! I couldn’t see anybody and I was all by myself high up on the mountain. I started screaming for them but there was no answer. A little panic set in and started screaming louder. Finally, I heard them and they were on a whole other trail! We met up and I showed them where the others went. This was super lucky for them and I because if not I would have had to hike all the way down by myself and they would have ended up who know where! After that we all stuck together like glue! That was one lucky thing that happened. We also were lucky and happened to know the people that rented the cabin, so we got to stay warm all night by the fire. The last lucky thing that happened was when we came out of the kaupo valley we still had to walk all the way down a long road to get picked up. There just happened to by a truck that cam out of no where and gave us a ride down to the bottom. We were so tired by this time that it was a blessing to get a ride!
Juliana and I were so excited about the Dakine Butterfly Effects that will happening. In September and October it will be in France, UK, and Brazil. We had to go a do this hike for the goodness of the Butterfly Effect. We hiked for good energy to be in each effect that will happen. We will be posting more info about each effect shortly.
Very blessed trip. I am happy we all made it back safe, sound and stoked!
the Lily pop
