Hawaii: Foiling and Japanese Paradise

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only spent 2 days in Japan but ate enough for a week. i’m still fascinated with everything about it!

just the most simplest pickled cucumber was amazing.

it was a long flight home because of my little experience with food poisoning, but i’m glad i made it. kind of felt tired, weak, and heavy so grabbed my foil and went to Diamond Head. only had 2 surfers out in the whole ocean and when i got out, it was my foiling buddies Edmond and Daniel! we had the time of our lives!

for the past 3 times i foiled Diamond Head, there was somebody on the top waiting for me. they would watch it and be very interested. then we would talk story for a while and i’m sure when they went home, they were looking for one online. haha.

if i had a surfboard, i would look at the waves and not surf. but with my foil, i look at the waves as everything is ridable. i’m not an artist but looking at the waves, it’s like a canvas. and my board is the paintbrush. drawing and painting some beautiful lines with the boys today was priceless…

then i see these 2 Japanese tourists smiling and laughing riding their electric scooter around Diamond Head.

i wave at them and yell “whoooo!” one of the girls took her hand off the handlebar and waved back. good thing she didn’t fall! haha. it’s so cool that i just got back from Japan as a tourist and enjoyed every minute of it. and these tourists are enjoining every minute of Hawaii. traveling is wonderful…

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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