He traveled with his wife Barbara from Utah for the reunion. Like my wife, she is an avid photographer and continually got each of us to pose for pictures throughout the day. We will have plenty of pictures for everyone. As we continued to set up, still more of the old crew dropped in. Des Whelan was the next to arrive.
Des is still as laid back as ever.
He lives in a small town in Washington now and seldom gets to Huntington anymore. Both Des and his brother Tim were avid members of HBSA years back. John Mitchell, as the committee chairman, opened the festivities. John mentioned that it was great seeing so many of those early day surfers in one place again and also thanked both the museum and the sponsors for their participation. Afterwards, I also thanked everyone for being there and let everyone know I would be mailing out pictures and videos once they were ready.