Surf and Smile.  Enjoying the ride…

Good morning 3:10am.
Ala Moana chest high sets and good.
Diamond Head shoulder high and good.
Trade winds at 15mph.
Sunny and warm.
Going to the sea.
Have a wonderful day!

Today was very interesting.  We went out on the boat and it was very calm and clean.  We started diving and everything was perfect underwater.  Then 40 minutes later, the ocean suddenly changed.  It got really rough, the current got strong, and the water got dirty.  It happened so fast!  

I was looking for shells.  It’s very peaceful to be in total silence in a total different world.  You don’t need to meditate if you free dive because this is meditation.  Thank you Mighty Mouse for the photos.  

Feeling comfortable is the key to longer breath holds.  So making sure you’re warm and weighted properly is important.  The girls are figuring it out therefore staying underwater a lot longer.  

Came home and ate more sashimi for dinner.  Fresh and free fish taste the best.  

Can’t believe they are selling Christmas trees already.  Isn’t it too early?  

This is not from today.  This is from our last trip to Okinawa.  And this was not from underwater.  This was from a white sandy beach.  

About 30 years ago, you could walk on any sandy beach in Hawaii and find shells like this.  Not anymore.  

Hayato went diving in the day and cooked us a wonderful seafood dinner.  Thank you for sharing your dream life with us…

My friend has the same boat as Mayuki.  When ever I see him out in the open ocean flying over waves, I’m mesmerized.  This is the best ride you’ll get out of any 23′ boat in the rough Hawaiian waters.

This dive watch records depth and bottom time.  I put it on for the last part of the blue water day because I thought I was going too deep at times.  All you see is deep blue so it’s hard to gauge depth.  This will bring you back to reality really fast because if you look at it and it tells you that you’re approaching 100′, you better start thinking about making your way back up to the surface.

Building muscle memory is the correct way to teach someone how to surf.  It takes time to build muscle memory, but once you get there, it’s a much faster path to doing turns like this.  It literally takes a couple of days to go from intermediate level to super advanced like this.