good morning. wow, what a surprise. pipeline is going off. it’s looking 3-5′ and pretty dam good. clean conditions with 20 guys out. town is small. knee/waist high at bowls with 12 surfers. it’s another beautiful sunny day in paradise. no wind now so get it before the onshore winds come. have a nice day!!!

this was round 2. i put a belt kui around my waist to carry the fish i catch. it’s pretty hard work and can get dangerous, especially when you have sharks coming around to see what’s for dinner. i seen 2 sharks yesterday that came in pretty dam close. imagine diving to the bottom waiting for fish, then as you start coming back up, you look behind you and there is a shark staring you in the face? it’s kind of freaky and a good way to get my heart pumping….

this is called a “munu” or “joe lewis”. put it in a steamer and you got yourself a gourmet meal. i want to thank kyle, cathy, and james for the awesome day of diving… let’s do it again!!
***ok, everybody’s been asking me about the waves at HT’s or Lances Rights. we absolutely scored the best of the best. a lot of the guys out were saying that it doesn’t get better than what we got it. 4-6′ and perfect peeling rights. at times, there were only 1 or 2 guys out. i shot this video clip from inside the boat while i was eating lunch. you can see how good the waves were and you can also see zuccho watching it while image surfing. we got so many barrels and there were also so many waves that nobody was on. i counted 4 empty waves in a row. it could have been you. watch this clip and dream. and remember, dreams do come true…..
and for the guys that couldn’t make it on this trip. i’m so sorry…. and i’ll say it again. i’m so sorry…. you just missed your chance at riding the best waves of your life…. but don’t get down because i’m already planning a trip for next year. if you miss that one, i’m not going to say “i’m so sorry,” i’m going to say “you blew it”…. again…
**watch these waves barrel on by…. more clips on the way….

**last, the okinawa video i just posted on youtube got some ratings:
#5 – Most Viewed (Today) – Travel & Events – Japan
thanks everybody….

good evening. wow, what a long day. 5am leave for molokai. get there 7am after rough seas. dive all day. leave molokai 4pm, get back to hawaii kai 5:15pm. lots of diving, lots of fish, and lots of sun…. i’m freakin tired…

invite me to surf? invite me to dive? i’m there… check out the beautiful island of molokai in the background. and look how happy i am. all you can see is teeth… haha…

i wasn’t planning to catch that much fish today. i just wanted to take it easy because the cut on my foot was killing me. but once i hit the water, i forgot about it. now, it hurts so much that i feel like my foot got cut off. this was my catch on my first dive. kyle went down in the front of the hole, i went down to the back. kyle scared the fish out of the hole and it came right to me. BAM!! GOODNIGHT FISHY…. GT OR ULUA DESU….. LOOK AT ALL THE FISH. SASHIMI ALL WEEK!!!
**more photos and maybe a video coming tomorrow morning. right now, i’m going to sleep because i’m super tired. hope your day was as fun as mine….

good morning. 4am and i couldn’t sleep last night. i’m too excited on this molokai trip. it’s the first time i’m going by boat and kept thinking about it. i gotta get going. today, i’m looking for lobsters… hope i can find a few for dinner. the waves? i have no idea… haha. have a nice day….

some people tell me that seth looks like me. i don’t think so. if i was that cute when i was a kid, what the heck happened??? haha…

i just got 3 emails sent to me asking why kelia doesn’t update her blog more often. i just don’t think kelia realizes how many hard core fans she has in japan. i really want her to go to japan and see for herself. then it will wake her up and she will probably update her blog more often…. but until then, i don’t think it will happen…

i was fortunate to go to tahiti last november with wendell ko. i watched him dive and learned so much. what did i learn? i learned that i have a long way to go to become one of hawaii’s top free divers. wendell is the man. i’m fortunate to be going with him today to molokai and i’m just going to sit back and watch. when he goes down, i just stay on the surface and try to hold my breath when he goes down to see how long he can do it. i’m probably about half way there…. well, i better get out of here. i don’t want to miss the boat. by the way, the fish wendell speared in tahiti tasted pretty dam good….
**and last, i’ll leave you with a short video of kazuma miyagi and team okinawa in hawaii. kazuma caught his first wave at kewalo’s. cute kid….