StandUP Paddle Planet

Last weekend, Mark Houghton stand-up paddled from Devonport to Waiheke - three hours of whooping it up in front of a big tailwind, catching waves with a pod of dolphins.Standing up on what looks like an over-sized high-tech surfboard,...

FITNESS FUN ON THE MAY By Sara Wright Feeding or petting wild dolphins is against the law under the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act.) Boyd and three other women took to the water to join the dolphins Friday, riding boards that cut their own graceful trail, holding paddles and tall as sentries.

“What’s happening Mr. Dolphin?” Sunday morning my friends Eric and Brandon joined me for a standup paddle workout off the Malibu coastline. It was an unusually warm day for mid-winter and we set out for a short jaunt to the pier at Paradise Cove, a little over a mile up the beach. We were cruising along at a good clip, and almost there, when a pod of 12 dolphins surprised us by surfacing near us heading in the opposite direction. And when I say near, I mean some of them were within a few fee