pool with hawaii showcase television magazine and we're not in seattle today but we are in a rainy place called westport and we're here at donovan's half moon bay bar and grill and hotel resorts it's a fabulous place to be and we're just finishing up with the dean water surfing tournaments and so i wanted to ask we have we have our handsome dude so we hear they're getting ready to go back to hawaii except for donovan he'd like to be able to go with them as well but he's here so donovan donovan maples he's the owner of this wonderful restaurant want to share with us a little bit about why we're here every year they have a clean water you know any business we can create during the the shoulder season is great but for me personally it's just so i can see my friends they can come out there they're pro surfers from oil they live there long boarders and and along with that we've created a little hype within the white communities like you guys  some other bands that we have played and saw like the last few nights as there is you know over one hundred people from hawaii that probably feel the same way i do just just this a little homesick and and just kind of gave us a feel of being at home so yeah that's a that's kind of what we do that's a it's a surf contest and then we have a party and a kind of a dinner here friday and saturday night and just kind of promote the cause for the surf rider foundation and also just you know promote this town because a lot know where we grew up surfing so it's is a kind of gives me a little sense of being back at home especially when i got my buddies that come up for morning sir well this is really very very impressive it felt like we were just dropped hawaii and the weather actually did very well with us for the you know for supper today and that was ok you know because it is a finals and but who do what did you decide to bring up put if you invite for there the longboard champions so i it was a longtime friend of mine grew up and while i was on a wall and saw he comes up he's been there for you know a couple years now he's come up just to kind of you know short she'll face and come visit me and serve in the contest or people can kind of see you know i think everybody had a had a great time watching them because it's of it's impressing you know you got to get the surf every day in a way so they get really good at it we're over here there's only a handful of guys that actually get the you know show off their well it was very impressive i'm going out on the bluff and taking a look at all the surfers out there and so i might to turn this over to the guys and share a little bit about what you're take was being up here in our cold and what you had to wear so a surfing community out of nowhere was kind of cool to work with the kids the kids came in from from inland from what i hear so they don't really know how much of surfers on this is the first time surfing so the kind of spread that joy and spread to me are like i like to be proud of our sport this is surfing that something started to avoid so it's cool to like you know give this back to the kids and let them see how fun it is a lot of them are superstore just to be on the waves so to be down here was really fun for us new experience and good times were the ages of the kids and how many kids do you think that with out there there's about fifty kids or so aging from two not to well every five to sixteen seventeen there was this really cool to see you're still going to go out there and surf and you know i was impressed with how many surfers i mean the cars would choke on the way down and the entire place it was it really was like one of the harley eva so what do you think that you're going to be taking back with you  from washington back home was all experience was just was just awesome i got to see a whole community here which was really cool and just another you know jump in the water that's so cold i mean we've been all over the world  that at all well the food in the drinks were mean it was fun just like be back home and you know that there was only and really donovan this is only a handful of the low community and up in seattle and because we have a huge community community from oregon going all the way up to them to washington and and i know that there was a lot of folks back home before we came up that said they wanted to come up here to get to seattle and just a little bit longer to portland but like you said there's a huge point community you know all over this place and most of all like i met like two or three people from white there in the west where is and that's that's the whole thing for us is you know west where it's always been a fishing town so the only plan big and you know they get over a thousand surfers a week that come down here and they come from canada from eastern washington come from all over the place like you said you know you get that each to serve the drive and you know those guys drive for five six hours and and from what the canadian guys  are telling me is that it's easier for them to come here than it is for them to catch all the ferry systems that cost a lot of money to go to their spots so you get a lot of gas from you know a b c or again you know just you know same thing with all these high winds that are homesick that come up you know once a month or once every couple weeks as much as i can but you know the restaurant business doesn't give you a lot of time to take off with you know for me it just creates a big awareness for you know west where they come on down you know there is this something that kind of gives you the whole feel just kind of stuff that we you know in charge of fish you know we go salmon but you know the bands that you had here you couldn't have picked some of the nicest and the most wonderful groups to be here and i know that the how the seattle community is and the oregon community once they know that there's a place that they can play music and how did the feel of being back home it was awesome and i think that a lot of folks out there missed out i think you ought to have a surf contest monthly i would love to have it might be  there's a lot of work going and it's a lot of work but you know we had a friday and saturday we had it from up above seattle and you know you pays a little bit more you pay everything but you visit a bit more traditional point music so he played early on and then friday night we had a band called one night you know so they got to go back to reality and get up to seattle but you know it's a it was a good good weekend and we'd like to have more events like that and hopefully it's read the words where they're going to come down and you know come see me more often you know now now they've got a contact you know they can see the big the seen we've been in the community for quite a long time and we have started and helped out a lot of different festivals and a kilometer was like that nobody even knew where kilometer was when we started with the climate festival and being here this time donna i promise you i think we have more of these kinds of events here because the setting is absolutely fabulous you could make a whole weeks vacation of being here certainly a lot of folks in seattle would love to come out here and do some of the deep fishing out here in the ocean and the the the beach where we stayed was absolutely fabulous be able to go on that beach every day and walk and walk and walk and walk and just be able to turn around and watch the kites and we had such a blast and i know you guys did talking to a lot of the folks not just in the in the restaurant but at the beach and cold i mean you know that's i'm one of those cheerleaders i'd rather just watch you go you know but it was just fabulous i can't think of a much better weekend that we've spent in a long long time and it was you did it up right you did it up right and you had it exactly like how it should be will do it again you know it's a yearly event you know as much as he's asking come down i mean we always appreciate it when like i said yeah just get down here take care of you guys and you know hopefully the rest of you know i can make it  my kind of tradition you know you know bunch of my friends come up from hawaii and all the more guys like employee scotty call you know the other friends i come up is this one again is for me it's kind of my selfish reason is i get to bring my friends love you know for a weekend where we can have a big hawaiian style party but then you also just create event down here that you know other people from why they can come down and just share and get away from the big city in the overly just keeps growing and growing and gets bigger and bigger and you know that's my intent is just the to keep going you know with the economy you know a lot of the big sponsors started kind of pulling out you know not making as much money or whatever so you know you you know we try to get you know rather the troops in and instead of going downsizing created to get bigger and my my dream for this this thing is to not only be a were kind of piggyback and become more of a horn festival you know where you know kind of like a whole oleo or you know something like that where we can create a event where everybody can come down you know kids the family you know watch the surfing you know come you know have food and entertainment things like that so you know you know get there but you know just it's all kind of depending on the weather and also you know just spreading the word getting the word out there that this is the this event every year and and and then well i think you got all the elements that the waves out there were beautiful and every time we kept looking at it in the morning it was like oh it was great and i think that you had all the elements it's a beach setting you've got a fabulous restaurant  hotel you've got you know there's lots to do as far shops down here and i mean there was nothing i mean there was every time i turn around it was something someone was doing flying their kites playing in the sand swimming and surfing it was just anyway yeah it was a great event i appreciate everybody coming down you know everybody from the kids to approach their friends and all the bands i came down and you know volunteer you know that it's for a good cause you know surf rider from nation there's a really good job you know that you know the you know they're the ones that help keep that ocean clean for us to enjoy it so and they're there worldwide you know they're all over the place and so you know a little bit we can help by raising money and creating awareness that you know just just helps our cause you know because you know it's for our kids you know they start getting i grew up in the water you know surfing with these guys and and you know i want my kids to to have the same same experience that i do they get i don't surf anymore because i just got older not a sheep song maybe one day i can get back in they're going to try to bring in once in a while but i'm not really and making this event happen and it should be it should be a thing a thing to do when you get a chance to do that again from us here in westport we want to say mahalo and thank you for a great time donovan it was awesome don't miss the next clean water classic aloha this is not poor with a white showcase television magazine