I’ve known Kimo Gasper for over 35 years. He’s a super good underground surfer that only the hardcore surfers know. Also one of the best divers on the island. We went to Japan together in 1990 for the World Surfing Championships, we surfed Big Rights for 35 years straight on every big swell, and now we’re taking sunrise photos together. Haha.
The water was so clean! So clean that when the boys were diving, I could see sharks swimming to check them out. I’ve never experienced that kind of visibility before.
When the dolphins swam by, it looked like an oil painting.
On the way back, it was sunset photo time. We were still between islands and it was the calmest day the ocean will ever get.
After spending the peaceful day surrounded by nature in total seclusion, it’s never a happy time on the approach back to Oahu. It’s a time when you realize “what happened to this island???”
For the whole day, this is what we were looking at. The sun rays beaming down hundreds of feet into the deep blue sea. You get mesmerized and almost sucked out of reality. Your heartbeat is slow, your breath is calm, and you’re almost falling asleeep. Then out of the deep when you see a silhouette of a big fish or shark, you wake up really fast.
