good morning. it’s 6:30am and i’m freezing cold. the winds are blowing outside and the waves look junky on the north shore. and it looks like the waves came down too. i see some 5′ sets at pipe with windy conditions. town is much cleaner but kind of small. got a lot of things to do today. pick up boards, send boards, check out a new spear gun, and computer work. busy busy busy… these are the days to get those little things done because once the winds stop and the waves get good, i’m surfing all day….

went to jack in the box yesterday to claim my 2 free tacos..

what a deal….

then it was to the beautiful east side to give wade tokoro a visit. gosh, his backyard is so green…

bert ishimaru works for wade tokoro surfboards. bert and i grew up surfing against each other back in the nssa contest days. he was leaving to the airport for a trip to australia to hand deliver mick fannings surfboard made by wade. he’ll probably be riding this 6’0 in the WCT contest coming up soon….

wade and the boys have been filming pipe recently. he showed me some footage of the last good day. holy cow!!! check this wave of japanese charger takayuki wakita taking a hell drop at pipeline on a 10′ set. can you believe he made this? the video is crazy!!! wakita is crazy…

good evening. once the winds seemed like it was dying down, it was just taking a break. get ready for 5 days of 30mph gusting tradewinds. not good for diving or surfing. maybe it will give me some time to get back to responding to emails and stuff… don’t worry, i didn’t forget about you. have a nice chilly evening…

this is the interior of my boat. i just love this color. and it looks even nicer when it’s full of red fish…

these are go-naminori riders alyssa wooten and chiaki okuyama….

i had a meeting last night with japan’s “CASIO G-SHOCK” distributer Takahiro Kinoshita. a very smart man, and a very positive thinker. the kind of guy i like to talk to. and the best thing about kinoshita-san is that he’s a surfer… just like us. i was stoked to meet him…

and i wanted to thank kinoshita-san for giving me a new killer G-Shock G-LIDE watch. it has the tide chart on it that will keep me posted on the tides for surfing and diving. so stoked….

and last, remember that garage sale i went to last week? i found a stack of record albums the lady was selling. all classic hawaiian kine. i bought 6 and this is just one of them. cecilio and kapono came out with this album called “elua”. it’s by far one of my favorite all time albums. i know every word of every song by heart. and if you don’t believe me, i’ll sing the whole album to you.. haha… by the way, i paid .25 cents/each. score!!!

BOSTON RED SOX PITCHER HIDEKI OKAJIMA, MARCH 26, 2008. TOKYO, JAPAN
ONLY IN JAPAN…