good morning. 6:30am on this cloudy monday morning. big north/east swell. bumpy conditions on the north shore. bad weather on the way. heard japan was freezing cold yesterday so expect a huge swell heading to hawaii by next week. town is back to normal, flat. going to work on my boat today and hopefully get it ready for surf/dive trips. once again, i feel so fresh from diving yesterday. but not so fresh after inhaling fiberglass and resin today. yuck… anyway, have a nice day…

this nuts ass v-8 vw bug lives right near my house. i can hear it coming down my street every time he drives it. i want it….

got some really wide tires in the back. the guy says when he steps on the gas a little, the tires spin out… that’s power. i want it…

it’s the only one on this island. i want it….

and last. ikai’ka in japan. can’t wait to see them live next year. maybe i’ll practice hula dancing and i can dance a song for them… that would be cool… o mau kau kau….

gosh, get this. i got a small cut on my foot last week. the dam thing won’t heal. i think the dirty water infected it and it hurts pretty bad. it was doing fin until yesterday but my fins kept on rubbing on it yesterday and made it worst. i couldn’t feel anything when i was diving but when i got home, itai… might have to head to the hospital today…

good evening from hawaii. check out this awesome double rainbow this morning in hawaii kai….

it was stretching from hawaii kai to diamond head. what an awesome way to start the dive day off…. wanted to thank kyle, cathy, and keith for taking me diving. we jumped on kyle’s boat this morning at the hawaii kai boat ramp and drove all the way down to sand island. got some good dives in and seen some pretty cool things. like turtles, sharks and stuff. it felt pretty good diving on somebody else’s boat. i usually go diving on my boat. it’s pretty stressful because i’m always worrying about things like, if it’s going to break, it’s going to sink, the anchor getting stuck, or losing somebody, or getting hassled by the coast guard. it’s just there in the back of your mind when diving. so today it was cool going on somebody else’s boat. i still think about things but it’s just a little less stressing. now i know how my friends feel when the go diving with me. no stress. lucky guys. and how’s this? when it’s time to go dive, they call in sick to work, leave their girlfriends behind, or practically drop everything to go dive. that’s the fun part. but when my boat is broken, it’s funny how everybody is too busy. have to go to work, or have to take the girlfriend shopping. classic…. haha…. so come on guys, my boat is out of commission now so call and offer some help…..

getting back to today, here’s our catch. good for nitsuke. there should be a small mahimahi in this photo but that sucker got away. i speared it good and somehow, it got off and ran into the deep blue. lucky fishy…. it was so funny because when i pressed the trigger, i was thinking “sashimi”…. maybe next time…

i usually don’t dive with a dive watch because i tend to always look at it. and when i’m deep down and look at it, i kind of stress out and head back up. but after all this diving and mental training i’ve been doing, i was curious to see how deep i’m diving now days so i took it with me today. i went down to the bottom on this one dive and knew it was deep because it felt like it took forever getting down. so there i was, cruzing on the bottom looking for some big fish to come in. waited a while and nothing came so i started to head up. made it back to the surface easily. looked at my watch and it recorded 67ft or 22m. i was pretty stoked that i can dive that deep relaxed. if i went diving 2 months ago and was down 67ft and looked at my watch while i was down there, sayonara…. i would have raced up for air and probably blacked out. i’ve been diving with good divers so i’ve been learning a lot. just by watching, i feel like i’m getting better. and also asking a million questions. you know me. haha.. anyway, i’m not diving with my watch until i think i’m hitting 100ft. then i’ll check it again. that’s my goal… but for now, the only thing deep tonight is my sleeping….. good night….
**HIGH SURF ADVISORY FOR ALL EAST FACING SHORES….

gone diving….