the ichiba or fish market in naha is my favorite. they have so many of the same fish we have in hawaii, but with more colors. i can stay there for hours and hours just looking around. and it also helps me figure out which fish is better eating so when i go diving, i can choose only the good ones….

and the lobsters are freakin huge!!! and expensive too!!!

even the vegetables are pretty cool. similar, but different…

when i see a cool thing, i take photo. this is cool….

ever since i got my boat over 10 years ago, i never launched it from makaha. why? i don’t know. last month was my first time and i wasn’t use to the surge in the harbor. yeah, i had a hard time getting my boat back on the trailer and when i finally did, my truck tires started slipping and i thought my car was going in the water. that would have been a nightmare.
the next truck i’m buying is a 4 x 4.

imagine spending $80,000 for a boat, $40,000 for a truck to pull the boat, $3,000 for fishing poles, $300 for gas, $50 for food, $30 for beer, wake up 3 am, go fishing all day, AND CATCH NOTHING!! OMG!!
i remember about 7 years ago waking up at 3 am, driving down to makaha, jumping on my friends boat, trolling all day long, and catch nothing. OMG!! guess what? that was the last time i went fishing on a boat all day. my friends always invite me but i always say “no thank you”….

instead of being on the water, i’d rather be in the water….

no other surfer in the world has broken more boards than wakita. i’d guess about 20 a year? that’s the price you pay for the glory of getting barreled!!!
this is wakita pulling out the back instead of pulling into a closeout. this way, you have a better chance of sparing your surfboard….

this is bruce irons on the next wave. see the 2 pieces of foam on the left side? that’s wakita’s broken board from the wave earlier… that sucks. but i’m sure wakita came in, grabbed another board, and went back out…. and probably broke that one too. i feel sorry for his surfboard sponsor. haha…