Surrounded by secrecy, guarded by myths, Vulcan Island ranks right up there with some of the world’s most celebrated ‘mysteries’: The Bermuda Triangle, the Lost Civilization of Atlantis, Dick Clark’s youth; you get the picture. Supposedly located somewhere in the South Pacific, few are those who’ve breached her shores and lived to tell the tale, for Vulcan Island is the home of hideous creatures, indescribable dangers, and treasures beyond your wildest dreams.

At least, that’s what it says on the brochures.

What they don’t tell you is how to get there.

Awesome Earl said that Vulcan Island could be reached by ‘unconventional means’. Guided by his mentor, The Big Kahuna, a quasi-sage, spiritual advisor and licenser of Awesome Earl merchandise, Earl was instructed to hop upon his Trusty Thruster Surfboard and… "go into the waters. Under fool moon you wait. Tidal wave of awesome motion will shake, rattle and rrrrolll the ocean!"

The Big Kahuna

Earl faithfully obliged. That night, parked off the shores of Maui’s Kahuakahainalagapa Bay, Earl waited patiently under the moon’s pale glow, bobbing gently in the water on his surfboard. Something happened.

The waters below him began to bubble and boil. The sea started to draw into itself beneath him, forming a gigantic ocean swell. The swell carried him up, up, up into the air. It began to crest. Then, it began to move. In a split second, Earl hopped upon his board and cut into the face of this monstrous wave. "BONZER!" he shouted as it carried him away…

TIDAL WAVE OF AWESOME MOTION

Earl rode the tidal wave all night, clear across the Pacific Ocean, and as the first, faint rays of dawn streaked across the horizon, a looming shape appeared before him.  It was an island unlike anything Awesome Earl could have possible imagined.  "Wow…" he whispered under his breath, for it was truly… awesome.

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