good morning. it’s 5am here in shikoku. there still seems to be some south swell coming into uchizuma. the tides too high now so it isn’t breaking but there are some swells rolling in. been having a great time here. mike woo’s here, and hayato came yesterday so we did what we love to do. dive….. check out these photos from yesterday….
mike and i had our spears from hawaii. hayato left his in chiba so we went the the home center and he bought this japanese spear for $4. it looked like a little toy and we were laughing. hayato actually speared a fish with this. whatever works….
when you have good diving partners, your going to catch something. we caught more than something. before we left, yasan was talking about a barbecue so the pressure was on. none of us wanted to come back empty handed, and none of us did. not bad for 2 hours of diving….
this is called “black awabi” in japanese. when we came back to the car, there were 3 of them that crawled into our cooler. we still don’t know how it got there???
we went to morimoto-san’s restaurant in kaifu and he prepared our catch. we took the cooler into the kitchen and he brought this out 15 minutes later. i freaked out when i saw this. it would take about 2 months rent to pay for something like this in tokyo. gosh, i swear this was the best dinner ever. imagine that this fish were alive just a few hours earlier. as fresh as it gets…
this is erina taniguchi. gosh, i’ve know her since she was 14 years old or so. erina is one of the nicest girls you will ever meet. everybody gets along and likes erina. she is also number 1 in the jpsa womens pro rankings now. if you seen her surf, you will know why. she was out the other day surfing with us and i seen her get some nice barrels. anyway, this could be erina’s year. ganbatte ne…
this is the morimoto-san crew. these people are so nice, the food is awesome, and i always have a great time there. thanks for all the years of the great food….
