had an awesome time surfing with Fujimoto-san. super cool guy with a lot of energy to surf.

2nd time surfing in his life and already looking and paddling like a surfer. cool!

Fujimoto-san has great balance. perfect style and perfect surfing all morning.

this small local turtle that i’ve been seeing everyday popped his head up. if you’re not use to seeing this, it will be a treat for sure.

so i dive down and swim with it. there is a special way to swim with turtles. never swim towards it, swim along it’s side. show the turtle you aren’t a danger and it will swim along with you.

and it will even swim right up to you if you are quite and graceful. i seen this baby turtle there 4 days in a row.

went down in the afternoon to do some routine maintenance.

took off the cover and checked things out. making sure the oil is clean, level, and everything is in check.

needed a grease job so greased up the fittings and everything is once again running perfectly.

Another perfect day! Go-Naminori!
Good morning 6am.
North shore tiny at waist high. Very clean.
South shores chest high coming bigger head high today.
South swell this afternoon and tomorrow. Very clean conditions.
No wind so perfect!
Super sunny and warm day.
Surfing all day.
See you in the water!

woke up early this morning to surf the north shore. just paddled out to laniakea and waves were better than i thought. only 2 guys at the peak with nice overhead sets. plenty of turtles, plenty of waves, and plenty of sun. had an awesome session. then stopped by wailua bakery on the way home to pick up my favorite pastry.

then stopped by wahiawa to pick up my new Match single fin shape by TSSC. so stoked! i can’t wait to ride it!

something different, something interesting, and something i’m looking forward too. going to wax it up now!

i had a meeting today with a really nice man. Nishikido-san is a professor from Hosei University in Tokyo. he’s been supporting the recovery efforts in Kitakami for the past 3 years and is a good friend of Naomi-san. we had a great meeting and i was so happy to meet such an intellectual man with a great heart. talked about the recovery efforts and remembering our missions almost brought tears to my eyes. over 4 years and Nishikido-san and i have something in common. “we will never forget 3/11” We Are One! can’t wait to teach Nishikido-san how to surf, and can’t wait to talk to his university students someday.

then went to the apple store for another long meeting with an apple genius. took too long so i left my computer there and came home to eat dinner.

been eating pretty healthy recently. fried tofu with bonito flakes from mugi, japan. so good!

got the phone call from apple at 8pm so rushed over to kahala mall for the pick up. want to thank Derek at the genius bar for taking really good care of me these last few visits. a true apple genius! works perfectly again!

now it’s snack time with my favorite treats from hokkaido. thank you Nishikido-san for the wonderful sweets and for the wonderful talk today. it’s always nice to meet people like yourself. have a safe flight back to japan and see you in september!
not it’s 9:10pm and way past my bedtime. south swell tomorrow! going sleep. had a long day, goodnight.