Fiji Relax day

Today is a dive day off for us here in fiji so we are learning the Fiji culture and lifestyle.  In other words learning to RELAX!  Let me introduce to our house maid "Una".  She didn't know I took this photo as I was busy working on my computer because she suppose to be hard at work cleaning up our villa but instead she is sitting down in our living room watching discovery channel.  We haven't been in our villa during the day and she was surprised to see us at home but a really nice lady who knows how to relax.  Her husband is outside doing yard work but Keaka caught him sleeping on the job too. They like to work 5 minutes then rest 5 minutes.  ha ha! We had a nice lunch and guys are getting a massage for we will be diving hard tomorrow!  For now we will learn to relax "Fiji style".

Fiji day two

Day 2 ended up on the reef again after hours of blue water hunting. Owen Adams Sr. is used to shooting thus in Hawaii so when this blue uhu came by, bam! No mercy.

Owen is 61 years old and he has a great bottom time!  There are not many 60 year olds who have good bottom time as this man does.  Tomorrow we are going big and I'm positive he will get his personal best fish.

Jaga is our guide here and he also landed this nice Uku on the reef.  We took it to the Pearl restaurant and paid $15/pp for dinner.  They steamed it up along with a nice mu we got and all the guests at the hotel were admiring our dinner.  Today we will rest up for the next 3 days of diving.  

Fiji Day One - Reef Diving

Day 1 diving in Fiji with Keaka and Owen Sr. is complete.  Started off at 7:15 am and headed out to the local reefs.  Rain made the water little dirty so had to head further out.

Visibility was around 80 ft+ so no complaints.  Keaka Ching pulled out his 115 cm reef gun and after not diving for months it was like riding a bike.  He got right to it and started shooting fish.

Here was the catch of the day.  A nice marble grouper that didn't get away.  Tomorrow gotta wake up early so time to go to bed.  good night! 

Fiji Villa

Bula! We made it Fiji on time! Perfect weather so far with light winds and no surf so gearing up for our dive tomorrow.  This is our place and boys are loving it!  Internet is super slow here, no such thing as high speed internet only dial up modem.  Well time to gear up and get going!  Stay tuned

Time

...to travel. The journey starts now!

River Monster!

Rain and wind continues in Hawaii but at least we don't have snow and sleet.  I think the next north swell will be coming March 1st. With the ocean so rough with small surf, not much surfers or divers can do so you gotta improvise.  Meet diver Joe!  His been on HSDTV shooting big yellowfin tuna but today he decided to go spearing in the fresh water ponds in Hawaii where river monsters reside.  Yes river monsters! He got his trusty or rusty spear and headed down in search of the creature from the black lagoon.

This monster fish kind of looks like a mix breed of a pirahna and a carp?  He said there are more in the waters there so next time he goes spearing for river monsters I'm coming with my camera.  I think people will freak out if they saw this on Hawaii Skin Diver TV.  Congrats Joe on the fresh water catch of the day!

Ready Set Mix

Windy weather continues all week with poor surf so decided to head over to one of my favorite hardware stores to buy some cement.  33 bags to be exact. If you want to buy ready mix cement, Home Depot or Lowes is the cheapest place to go, but City Mill will match their price if you show them your receipt.  Since the Red Sea boat can't go out diving or fishing, I better call the Red Sea crew to come help.  

Here James and Alan began the mixing process.  Luckily my neighbor let us use his mixer otherwise we would be severely hurting (Thanks Malcom).  Alan is a great baker so we let him control the mix to get the right consistency so we would have a good hard crust.  James got down and dirty and was the jack of all trades.

Kekoa moved the mixed cement into the form and instead of 5 shovels he moved 5 gallon buckets of cement at a time.  What a great productive workout he had this weekend.  Just think of it as cross training:)

Me and Crow shaped the slab to perfection one mix at time.  You need the right tools to do the job and the right crew!

Final float and finish was completed just in time for lunch that was provided by the rest of the Red Sea crew.  Thanks for everyones help today!