good evening. feeling like winter here in hawaii. how cold was today? i finally got things done and was trying to catch up on emails. sorry if i haven’t got to you yet but i will eventually. i watched the news today and nothing was good so i turned it off. i’m tired of hearing about our economy going down and all the other depressing news. so instead, i was looking through our tahiti trip photos and getting all happy again. then i was looking back at our indo trip and was getting even happier. and then i was looking at all my photos from japan and i’m happiest right now. so happy that i’m going to eat a happy cookie and milk. have a safe evening… goodnight…
when i was in tahiti, i was swimming around with my speargun and camera at the same time. the camera was for taking photos for a magazine. and the speargun was to keep the sharks away from the boys. so i was playing around and trying to shoot myself. not with my gun, but with my camera. so here is step 1. swim around and look for fish with the gun in the right hand, and the camera in the left. point camera backwards and take a shot. cheese….
step 2. when you see something, take aim and slowly approach your dinner. move very slowly and stay down until the fish gets curious….
step 3 is hit the trigger and hopefully hit the fish. i forgot to shoot that part because i was too excited. step 4 is to secure the fish as in this photo. stick your knife in the fishes brain so you kill it and keep the hungry sharks away….
step 5 is to look around for sharks. look good. see that 6′ black tip shark heading my way? he wanted my fish so bad but there was no way i was going to give it to him. he came within a few feet a couple of times but there was no way he was taking my dinner. he finally gave up when i told him to get somebody else’s fish. it’s amazing how sharks understand english. but the sharks were everywhere. spear a fish, here comes the sharks. it was pretty cool watching them in their world. we were even feeding them at times. the underwater world is the bomb…..
**so here’s the deal, i ended up taking over 1,000 photos. most for the magazine, but some for my blog. got some cool ones coming up…. stay tuned and dive safe….
Stalk, Aim, Shoot, Photo, Shark, Dinner….
Seth Moniz and Shun Murakami Go-Naminori T-Shirts….
good morning. junk waves for most people on the island but good enough for me. waves are waves and surfing is surfing so that’s what i’m doing today. i went to tahiti and came back more of a positive thinker than i already was. most surfers complain about small surf, windy, cloudy, nothing to do days like this. as for me? this is still paradise and there are still so many things to do on this island. for example, sleep… haha.. have a great day…
hey everybody, check this out. wada-san from New World Trading Inc. in tokyo sent me some presents for the boys. yes, this is the first ever seth moniz tshirt. and seth moniz stickers. i’m so stoked and i know the boys will be stoked too. i’m so fortunate to have met so many kind people from my blog. thanks to everyone for giving me the motivation to sit in front of my computer 5 hours a day. haha.. just joking. but really, i’m glad to meet every one of you. thanks so much again..
these are shun murakami’s. these two kids don’t even know that these tshirts even exists. they are going to be stoked for sure. if this were size L, i would wear it all the time….
and wada-san didn’t leave me out. he designed and made this cool go-naminori tshirt for me as a surprise. i’m going to keep this tshirt for the rest of my life and when ever i wear it, it will remind me of all the kind people that’s around me. things like this make me so happy that i don’t know what to say…. except, thanks, thanks, and thanks…. thank you everyone….[:?????$B!x(B???:]
Carissa Moore No moore Roxy….
good evening. gosh, it’s feeling like winter already. it was so cold all day today. windy and cold. the waves were stormy but still fun. i’m still tired from the hot days and nights in tahiti. anyway, gotta get going. have a safe evening…
after 8 years with Roxy, carissa moore changed sponsors. nike 6.0 and red bull stepped up and probably handed her a hefty contract. at 16 years old, carissa moore is on the right track. wait, doesn’t she go to punahou school? oh, that’s why…. go kaiser!! i mean punahou….
this is carissa ripping up haleiwa. imagine the load on this young girls shoulders now? i hope she wins every contest and becomes the youngest women’s world champ. or even men’s…. that’s how freaking good carissa surfs….
and last, i was checking out the camera yesterday at uchizuma beach, shikoku. i love staying at the club house overlooking the bay. i was only there for a few days this year and wished i could have been there a lot longer. it’s peace and quiet. if you want to check out the signs of the south swells hitting japan, uchizuma is the place to check. i know guys in shonan, wakayama, shonan, and chiba that look at the TSSC live camera. so do i. if you want to check it out for yourself, CLICK HERE AND THEN ON THE LIVE CAMERA BUTTON….