A Little Fathers Day Fishing and Fish Nuggets

Big waves pounding the shore + a beach with other guys stringing out their dunking lines = not much fishing for me. I still did manage to catch a couple of wrasses so no skunk this day!!! And for dinner I made some A'u ki (marlin) Nuggets!!! Before and after pictures. I hope you had a good Father's Day!!!

Cool Squid

Mesmerized me while standing in line to check out. On news stands now - go check it out to get mesmerized!!!!

Hawaii Public Library Book Sale

On Saturday, among other errands, we stopped off at the Hawaii State Public Library Book Sale. Walking through all those books felt like going through a time warp back to the mid 80's. Those were the same aquarium books I used to borrow while I was in High School. I did find a cool series of Jacques Cousteau - but flipping through the pages felt like reading a super-out-of-date textbook from elementary school (I passed on the series - in a different place I would have scarfed them up, but with limited space and having purged multiple times, I am much wiser now. WISER - NOT SMART ;) I did find one gem that I took home... this book felt less like elementary school in the days before Al Gore conceived of the internet, and more like a prop straight from Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou". And best of all - it was in great condition and only $2 They also has some cool art (that if money were no object, I would have taken home). Check out your neck of the woods for a Library Purge - for sure there will be some treasure buried in the boxes :)

Corpse Plant at Foster Botanical Gardens

Friday afternoon, La, the kids and I paid a visit to a 48 hour visitor. Amorphophallus titanum is a type of plant that grows in one cycle (vegetative) and then flips over to a second (reproductive) - looks completely different in both phases. So why is this an 'amphibious' post??? This species smelled like rotting fish entrails (to draw in flies - it's primary pollinator).

Stop and Smell the Roses

This weekend was a stop and regroup for us. For watertime, Marlon and I went on the dawn patrol on Friday (King Kamehameha the Great Day - State and Local Holiday so the commute in was as good as it ever gets; gotta make good use of those limited days). But not much else in the water category. Noe and I did do some succulent gardening - mainly rearranging and repotting. Along the way, there were details to be noticed and time to reflect on the changes in the plants we've collected. The way I see it, it's okay to pass up a few waves in life. Looking at other sources of stoke and stress relief can help you appreciate what you do have. This was one of those weeks (and aren't the plants cool????!!!!)

Through Smith Lenses

About the only time I wear sunglasses now is when I fish the flats. Here's what the view through the Smith Chroma-pop bronze lenses look like compared to a straight shot with the camera. Big difference eh -

Sunday Afternoon Catching - Six Pack

I went fishing this afternoon and ended up catching six. Three papio, a nunu (coronetfish), a moana (goatfish), and a manini (convict tang). FUN DAY CATCHING!!!