Gel Jamlang for Reader s Digest
It traveled over 5,000 miles across the ocean and was still in one piece.
Doug Falter returned home on the evening of February 3, 2018, teary-eyed and exhausted. The 33-year-old professional photographer had just run from one end of Hawaii’s Waimea Bay to the other the length of three football fields while frantically scanning the water like a starving seabird in search of a fish. Still not finding what he was looking for after more than an hour, he tried scaling some nearby rocks to get a better view. But by then, night had started to fall.