good evening on this cold north wind evening. the waves sucked today on the north shore. big, onshore, and unridable. town came down too into the waist high range. surfers are bummed today but divers are stoked!!! i surf when the waves are good, and dive when the waves aren’t. what a life yeah? haha… anyway, took naoka for his first boat dive. did some shallow dives today to break him in so i thought it would be just another ordinary day in the water. but these are the days that you see the freakiest things. first, on our first dive, we were diving together and i speared this fish. an aggressive shark came out of the blues and tried to eat it off my spear. i pulled the fish in close and tried to poke the shark away with my shaft. i never give sharks my fish. no way… so i kept him away but he didn’t want to leave. i told naoka “shark” and when he saw it, i think he freaked out. i seen his eyes get big in his goggles… haha… but the shark eventually left so we kept on diving….
second dive, we went out to this spot about 30′ deep. i jumped off the boat and seen this something huge in the sand. the water was a little dirty so i couldn’t make it out. i dropped down on it and as i was approaching it, i saw his eyes look up at me. shit!! it was a freaking huge barracuda. i’ve never seen a barracuda that big in my life. it was about 6′ long and super thick. i pointed my gun at it and it never moved. i kept looking at me and as it was going to take the shot, i thought to myself, no way!! if i spear this monster, i will lose my gun for sure. and there’s no way i was going to take that chance. if i had a shitty gun, i would have for sure. came back up and took the tag line off naoka’s gun and clipped it to my gun. now i have a float so i’m ready to take the shot. went back down, and he wasn’t there…. shit!!! oh well…. i was telling myself “next time”. but there might be no next time….

this is what a barracuda looks like. the teeth are so big and sharp that it can rip a fish in half. and probably my arm…
third dive, the water was dirty again so couldn’t see too far. i went down, waited for this uhu to come in, got the shot in the head. then as i was pulling him in, this huge 40lbs ulua or GT tried to eat it of my shaft. what?? he looked me in the eye, turned to the side, and swam away slowly… shit!!! another missed chance…. oh well, there’s always tomorrow…. waves are going to be junk for the next 2 days so got to go back in the ocean and experience things only free divers can….

this is our catch from today. not bad…. see the gold on the top? 3 big gold bars???

yeah, this is the gold i was talking about. steamed kumu for dinner tomorrow night and nitsuke kumu for wednesday….

and last, here is naoka’s first speared fish….. don’t laugh because this is where everybody starts….
**by the way, no eddie aikau today. they got until feb. 28th so plenty of time….

good morning. 7am sunday morning. HUGE waves on the north shore. but with the waves are the north winds. everywhere up there is onshore and stormy…. eddie aikau on hold so check back to see if it’s a go today. town is straight offshore and clean but the waves came down. maybe chest high at ala moana with a bunch of guys on it already. diamond head is probably the spot again today. i surfed a secret spot yesterday where the water is usually dirty but it was crystal clean. might have to go see if there are some fishies there. feel like eating fish for dinner…. anyway, have a nice and safe day!!!
**also wanted to wish my friend russ trinidad a happy birthday!!!! cheers[:??????:][:?????????:][:?????????:][:?????????:]

went to dinner last night at imanas. the chanko nabe there is the best on the island. so good…..

my camera doesn’t take good photos at night but let me tell you, the nabe is awesome….

having a good dinner with friends makes a happy night…. kobayashi-san from selection surf shop in nagoya, kubuta-san from on the beach in miyazaki, naoka from hiroshima, and tokura-san from dove…. such a fun night!!!!

and last, check out this sick big wave photo from waimea on jan. 10th. the whole gallery coming up on go-naminori.com sometime soon….
**and last, check out one of most played karaoke songs in hawaii…. bring back memories??? “oh sandy”…..

good evening. went to the north shore early this morning and pipe/backdoor was going off!!! it was a bummer because they had a contest so all i could do is watch and dream….

i was dreaming that i was in that barrel….

and this one too….. we ended up surfing haleiwa and it was pretty good. not as good as backdoor but good enough….

then came back to town and the waves were good too. this is diamond head at 12pm. 100 guys out? ended up surfing a secret spot and it was only us…. so today was a good surfing day for me… can’t wait till tomorrow…. oh, the next huge swell supposed to peak tomorrow noon so there’s a good chance the eddie will go. if it’s on, i’m going to go watch history in the making…. have a good evening…