When the early European explorers traversed the globe, their journals held numerous accounts of Hawaiians enjoying surfing.
When a swell was.
He\'e nalu (wave sliding) was the national sport and enjoyed by all.
Nowhere in the ancient world was Surfing as ingrained into the culture as on the islands of Hawai\'i.
Since Europeans of that era were not accustomed to swimming in their own cold waters, it must have seemed like a dream to watch naked native Hawaiians riding the waves of a turbulent sea.
When the early European explorers traversed the globe, their journals held numerous accounts of Hawaiians enjoying surfing