going to Cuba is like going back 50 years in America. going to Molokai is like going back 100 years in Hawaii. just the simplest of living off the land and sea. going there for the first time made me realize how important our natural resources are.
and getting taught how to live off the land by true 100% hawaiians is something you could never learn in school.
and watching these guys dive first hand blew me away. i remember just sitting back, watching, and learning on this trip. we would catch fish, take it back, clean it right as we got in, and share it with everyone. it was the Molokai way.
here is Dino cutting up the filets. nothing here goes to waste. what ever you catch, you eat. simple.
it’s amazing how close Molokai is, but yet so far from Oahu when it comes to pure hawaiian culture. it’s the simple lifestyle. live off the island, and take care of your family.
so 1 year ago, some free divers from Oahu take their boat over to Molokai, they rape the ocean, meaning spearing anything and everything to fill up their coolers to bring back to oahu to sell to chinese restaurants. some of the Molokai locals got pissed off, went to their boat, threw their spearguns into the ocean, and told them never to come back. the Oahu guys came back to oahu and called the police. here is what i think because when it comes to things like this, i speak my mind. Molokai is different. the people protect their land and resources. they take what they need for dinner and that’s it. their ocean is like their refrigerator. so going there from another island and raping their ocean is like stealing from them. i totally respect their ways, i totally respect their culture. in my eyes, the free divers from Oahu that went there were wrong. they should show more respect for the hawaiians living on that beautiful island. all this i learned by the hawaiians on Molokai and i wish everybody would respect their ways.
so i just have one more thing to say:
Keep Molokai Molokai!
and maybe another thing too:
Keep Cuba Cuba!
