I arrived and the surf was pretty active. 

No worries!  I'm a good swimmer and I couldn't wait to get in the water. 

I headed down to the beach where the contest was being held and they wouldn't let me go swimming if I wasn't in the surfing contest.  So I entered! 

The other surfers weren't sure about me, but I convinced them I was a good surfer.  What they didn't know is that I've never surfed before.  I've body surfed as all good Labs have done, but never on  a board.  What the Hey!  I'm the Shanny Monster!  I can do anything, right?

Before we started, we all posed for a group picture.

Then the call came in for "SURF'S UP!!" and we all grabbed our boards and headed out.

I was a natural!

I was into a pipe and scored some extra points for this one.

I made it to the semi-finals.  Word spread that Shanny the surfin' Lab was in town and the beach became packed with people.

I think it was this pipe that put me in first place.

Nobody else wanted any part of this wave, but I rode it into the beach.

The contest ended for the day and I decided to do a bit of sight-seeing to wind down.

I visited some waterfalls.

Then visited a volcano before the sun went down.  I curled up in the back of the Woodie and slept like a log.

The next day dawned bright and sunny.

I headed to the beach with my opponent.  It was just him and me dueling it out.

At first the waves weren't the greatest and I'm not sure I scored very well.

Then the waves picked up and I put on a clinic!

I felt somewhat sorry for my opponent.  He was the reigning World Champion and he got smoked by a Labrador!  There was no way he could catch me!

The sponsors even made a surfing game featuring me!  I heard later it was the most wanted Christmas present for that year.  It made the Cabbage Patch Kids or Tickle Me Elmo look like nothing!

There is nothing as beautiful as a Hawaiian sunset! I thought the one in Arizona was great, but I was wrong.

I liked Hawaii so much, I may just stay here for awhile.

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