good morning. gosh it was raining hard and so windy last night. the roads are wet, the water is all bust up, and my car is so dam dirty. want to wash it but it will get dirty again right when i leave my house. going to stay home today because the waves are terrible. town is flat. north shore has 2′ max and super windy again. and today is sunday so expect another super grom session at ehukai. might go watch the boys surf in the evening. but for now, i’m staying warm and relaxing… have a nice day…

gosh, those guys in okinawa never quit. kevin sent me these photos of this huge grouper. they caught it off a cliff at some secret spot. look how huge this thing is? imagine how much bigger it looked in the water….

imagine how heavy this thing is? they have to lug this fish up 400 vertical stairs to get it back up the mountain. how would i do it? drag it by the tail or make somebody else carry it..

this is how the boys down in okinawa do it. when i first saw this photo, i laughed. but not that i think about it, what a great idea… maybe they can carry me up the stairs too? haha…. thanks kevin for the awesome photos. keep diving and save some fish for me. i can’t wait to go back there next year….

good evening. left my house with the 2 boys, then headed over to my sisters house to pick up the other 2 boys. we had a fun day….

shun and ryota went to check out the moniz boys room. this is their trophy rack….

after i picked up the boys, we went to surf kewalo’s. the waves were so fun. much better than yesterday and it was really sunny. the kids had fun. then it was off for some fishing at uncle perry dane’s house. on the way out there, there was a yard sale. dropped by to check out some old surfboards and stuff. pretty cool hawaiian style beach front yard sale…

we went fishing right off the rocks and we caught a lot of fish. we ended up throwing some back because this was enough. these fish are called “aholehole”. deep fried these fish and you got an awesome meal. after some fishing, we headed to the north shore. ehukai beach park was the spot today. almost every grom on the island was out. even kelly slater and andy irons were surfing with the groms. surfed into the sunset….

now this is the shitty part. out all day, drove around the island, surfed two times, and even went fishing. yeah, the drive back to town sucks. especially when there is choke traffic and heavy rain. i’m lucky christmas is coming up because i was singing christmas songs they were playing on the radio all the way home. “frosty the snowman, was a very happy man……” i love christmas. christmas makes me happy….. good night…..
**today was pretty fun hanging out with the boys. the were playing around in the back seat of my car when i was driving. doing jun ken po, and teaching each other japanese and english. i was so stoked to hear seth saying “daijyobu? onamae wa nan desu ka? and nansai desu ka? that’s pretty good for today. shun and ryota were speaking english too. then after the japanese/english lesson, they started wrestling each other. i was just laughing because it was funny. but when i went to surf ehukai and pulled my board out of my board bag, i wasn’t laughing. there was a big hole in my good board from somebody’s surfboard nose. it must have happened while they were playing around. oh well, boys will be boys….

good windy cold saturday morning. the winds backed down a little but still blowing hard. waves way down from yesterday. north shore looks 1′ if your lucky. no pipe masters today. town has knee/waist high waves. 6 guys out at rockpiles and 3 at bowls. the waves will me small for few days so get use to it. have a nice day and see you in the water…

mark “occy” occhilupo surfed his final heat as a WCT surfer today at pipe. he’s 41 years old and has accomplished so many things in his surfing career. what a legend….

this is sugar cane. when we were kids, we use to ride our bikes and cut through the sugar cane fields on the north shore. all i remember was sugar cane and pineapple fields. those were the days. now? nothing… sugar went out of business as well as pineapples. that sucks. now there’s all weeds in the once beautiful landscape views of the north shore. what next? hotels? i don’t want to be around to see that. that would kill me….

tokura-san took this photo in the philippines. i would be sitting on my bed every night working. i still hate the person who invented the computer. this machine took most of my life away. i don’t even have time for my daily afternoon nap anymore….
**anyway, hold on to your hats and get ready for 3 more super windy days in hawaii….