Remembering Typhoon Ioke….

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good evening from hawaii. gosh, it’s good to be back home. my flight back to hawaii was 100% full. i’m glad to see the japanese tourists coming back to hawaii. i surfed today, bought a speargun, and relaxed. i’m here for a whole month so i’m going to enjoy it. the last 17 days were pretty crazy for me. all the airplane rides, trains, boat trip, and automobile driving wore me out. i was looking at my new passport that i just got last year and couldn’t believe that 12 out of the 17 pages are full of stamps already. and the traveling i’ll be doing for the rest of the year will be nuts. oh well…. i ain’t complaining but i need some time for my body to recover. i’m going to sleep and nobody better wake me up….. i spent some time downloading the 1854 photos i took. check some out from the other day in chiba. have a great evening…..

it’s pretty fun surfing in chiba, especially when your in the water with people you know. yoko and yuko are 2 cool girls that surf really good. all the boys out there were watching them….

everybody’s been telling me that the tv crew are filming hayato’s everyday life. i think that’s cool because hayato has a really interesting life indeed. wake up in the morning, grab a raw egg from the chicken outside, eat it over hot rice with fresh shirasu from yamari, jump in the electric car to get a morning surf, come back home and eat vegetables from the garden, build a deck outside your house, go for another surf, walk on the jetty and grab a few lobsters, dig in the sand for some clams, go home eat sashimi and clam miso soup, feed the chickens so the next morning you can eat another egg, and go to sleep. then the next day, something totally different. yeah, that’s a very interesting life that a lot of japanese would be interested in. i’m just wondering if they will show hayato sticking a knife in the chickens heart one morning, eating the heart raw, and making yakitori from the rest? haha….. stay tuned because you will never know what’s going to happen…..

the last time i seen misao tako (owner of sequence surfboards) was at this big wave spot in chiba 2 years ago. it was just the 2 of us early in the morning during one of the biggest surf days in the history of japan. typhoon ioke. remember that? we both had 9’6 guns trying to survive the 15′ closeouts in the middle of the bay after being dropped off by skis. nobody was smiling that day. but now that we survived it and are still alive, we can look back and laugh at that day. a day that i will never forget…. so tako-san pulling into this barrel at torami is like a walk in a park for him….

KIRBY FUKUNAGA
ハワイで生まれ育ち、プロサーファー、フォイラー、スキンダイバー、カメラマンの肩書きを持ち、ウォーターマンとして、海で多くの時間を過ごし、海から多くのモノをもらいながら生活しています。彼が伝えようとしていることは、海がある生活は僕らを豊かにしてくれるということ。そして、自分だけではなく、いろいろなことをみんなにシェアし、人生を楽しむということ。現在は、ハワイでプライベートサーフィンガイドを主催。
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