i’m enjoying mexican style food every day here. these are the 2 lovely chefs from Palapas Ventana.

been meeting some cool divers. there is these 2 mexican guys are entertaining us day and night with their sense of humor. it’s like having 2 comedians 24/7. haven’t laughed like this in a while.

this is mexican style breakfast. love it, but kind of miss my natto and rice too.

yesterday my diving equipment got all bust up. almost everything broke from the powerful pargo. but when you have James with you, everything is fixable. thanks James for fixing my equipment, and thank you Johnathan for bringing the line and tools all the way from hawaii. can you guys not snore so loud tonight? haha.
well, the boat leaves soon so better get going. i hope to get something big today. have a wonderful day!

omg, what an awesome day with some awesome stories. all i have to say is that experiencing things in foreign counties is so fun. i wasn’t a big fan of mexico, but now i am. coming to find out that this might indeed be the best freediving location in the world!

been getting up every morning at 5:30am. look outside my room and this is what i see. a beautiful sunrise, our dive boats getting ready, and the island on the horizon where we will be spending the next 8 hours in the water.

no, i didn’t use photoshop. this is the real colors of mexico!

and no, that is not a white spot on my camera lens. that is the full moon this morning. the golden sunrise on one end, and the full moon setting on the other. pure nature!

kyle and i are on the same team. the 2 of us speared 121 pounds or 55 kilos of fish today. if we caught fish like this everyday, we’d be millionaires. but no, the kids at the orphanage get to eat fresh fish for a while and that makes us very happy. we did blue water diving, to deep reef fishing. here is kyle at home in the deep blue waters of mexico.

this fish is one of the hardest fish to spear. it hides in and out of caves deep down 50-70′ of water. you have to play hide and seek with it and once you spear it, you better it doesn’t suck your speargun into a cave because you will never get it back. that reef out there must claim about $10k/year of spearfishing gear. guys are loosing things everyday out there.

before this trip, mike and eric didn’t spear a fish bigger than their frying pan. today, everything changed. they came across this marlin and speared it together. what an amazing father and son story.

after the long day, our captains clean and cut up the fish. we keep a few fillets for sashimi, and the rest goes to the orphanage. everybody happy!
tomorrow is the last day of the tournament. hope to get some good sleep now and be fully alert tomorrow. i was almost falling asleep while free diving today. i’m super tired but completely at peace. good night from my little room sitting on top of the ocean front hill in mexico.

Marlin caught by Mike and Eric Uyehara!
Good job boys!!!!