Stay tuned Brudda PP heads, I will start giving you a few insights of howzit Island style, and style is the way things are done over here for the Kine! So for starters this is the Best line I have heard from any of my mainland friends in my first Quarter here" Dude I have to take two Valium before I get off the plane everytime I go to Maui", I know I been holding back but I will try to give you a report witha few pictures just to break you guys out of those winter blues !!!PEACE

Hey the little bish aboob came crawling back with his little tail between his legs....LOL

I'll be in Maui in March Don, lets grab a beer!

I will take care of yaa SG what I tell the visitors to Maui is go find your Island and when your done I will show you mine,absolutely you got my phone #!!!PEACE

WTF? Don't you have a Koi pond to clean out or some fruit to pick?
Your dog only took one crap on my carpet today, so today has been a good day. Pics of the yellowfins or they didn't happen. Call a brudda. Toodles...

Atleast my Mom is a Lady, not a BULL DYKE like your dad, I mean mom. LOL

SD please take your drama out of this thread , this is for the Brudda's that know me thank you Brudda!!!PEACE

GFY!

So lets begin.When I moved over here and believe me the transfer from the mainland wasn't easy all my friends that know me where asking me "what are you going to do over there? My answer was always what I have always done but in reality I didn't have a clue but the funny thing was I didn't care I knew it was the right thing.
Maui really is a magical place I have been really blessed to have been excepted as just a good person from some locals that really are the "kine"! This experience of being unconventially excepted by total strangers only because of my friendship with 1 individual is amazing. Its what we live for and for me to find this type of respect in life has been a gift believe me. I'm not going to give you anymore dribble about why or what but just daily events to kind of give you my view.

Day is just begining here so here was yesterday. My property is a choke view upcountry home where if it actuslly rains 2 days a year I'm lucky. So I got chores done and had a urge to roll down the hill even thou it was pow rain in the valley, Maui the pitbull that has befriended me loves truck rides he is so mellow. My brudda in the valley had buckets everywhere so I was on a mission to get his roof patched up or at least a plan. Its funny I have a saying overhere " what doesn't get done today probably won't get done tomorrow" if you get my drift. Yep ts pow make a plan, Time for a little swing back upcountry to lay in the sun since its raining everywhere else. Hell I haven't had a tan in 20 years and it just grows on you here. Today if the golf tourney is still workin I got a date, HUUMM!!!PEACE

Took my first trip to Maui this past September for the honeymoon my wife and I never had. A very diverse place in everyway. Would have liked to gone fishing but opted for surfing instead. While we were their they made the decison to overturn the protection of Honolua Bay as a marine sanctuary which opens the area up to fishing and development. Such an amazing area with world class surf and snorkeling. Sad to say the least....alot of bummed locals in the water.

Sounds like you're making the most of it, Don...glad to hear it!

Fish on...

Todd

too much Maui wowee I guess. Reads like an Ebonics Brudda thread. lol

Plenty wowee here, comes with the turf. Yep, so today I got to take the new wahine back home since she is the water girl for the farm they own up hill from me that is a early chore not for the kine that like to sleep in. Mind you now this is a huge fenced in Organic spread where critters are not welcome! I open the gate and drive up aways and she is going ballastic, Deer, deer, deer, Yeah I'm thinking. Over here their is no license no limit killem as you see fit. Dang I'm in heaven race home grab the old guno and return for the bloodshed. Just think fresh venison hanging in Maui, Awesome [Bleeeeep!] where did the day go I better clean this mess up before it gets dark. Did mention it is 8o and sunny!!!PEACE

You are killin' me brudda! Nicely done. Was it an Axis deer or Whitetail? Aren't Whitetails only on the big island? Any luck on scoping the pig situation?

Maui surf n' turf...yellowfin and vension - Don style. Highliner indeed!

Looks like another beautiful day coming! Today is Huli Huli chicken day, which means to flip chicken. I trade labor with my Brudda here I help him with his roadside grind stand in exchange for landscaping duty's up here Definitely get the better end of this deal. I actually enjoy it as I get to meet and talk to all walks of society on these days and the chicken and Porkbutts he cooks is heavenly. My boy was here recently and got to sample some PB fresh off the fire and his Quote was, and mind you he was a Defensive tackle in college and like "Mikey", " Dad that was the best [Bleeeeep!] I have ever ate!" The Kiawe wood they use to cook with over is some of the hardest hottiest wood I have ever seen I can't wait to mix it with some alder to smoke with also as it has its own smokey flavor and I know the two together are going to be the Kine, Later!!!PEACE

Don have you had any time to fish while you have been over there?

Sky hit the Ahi one day in October made a kill but really just been diving more, Lobster and Octopus are not a bad reward for a few hours in the water, been howling trades with just a few windows in the last couple months, Marlin are no show and a few mahi and shibi's on the fads but save my gas money for the kine, the aHi show up in a few months' and I will be runnin and gunnin when that happens. I got a Bruddah with a 35 ft. Force that I will be crewing on this summer I can't wait.

OH yeah, life in Maui! When I finished chores I loaded up the dog picked up the "wahine and headed up mountain. Their is a great drive that switchbacks up the backside of the crater that isn't excessable to the tourist and has got some awesome views. Its funny because I stop to eat lunch just past the gate on a nice little landing let the dog out to run and am enjoying the moment and next thing I know their it is, Mr Michigan and his wahine pounding into my space wanting to know everything about whats up. You can't hide from them on Maui. Fill them with Aloha spirit and send them about their day. The cool thing though was they were walking not driving so I respect that since it is 4 wheel only.


Yep, I screwed up usually I got the 38 in the truck but had switched trucks for the day and of course mid afternoon I could have killed to pigs as I just about had to shoe them out of my way, couple spots they got it so tore up I can't wait to go back up and stock up! Today off to the westside to play in the water with the tourist and a long walk in the sand!!!PEACE

First good rain of the year here last night and when you live on the edge of the desert that is a god send believe me, Maui has been in a drought that is brutal for a long time and when it rains I am very happy!!!

Today is a tackle day, Sunday was the first day I got a twinge to start rigging but today I will start getting my [Bleeeeep!] ready as the want to get back to the killing fields is starting to creep in so it is time to spend some energy their! I don't get to excited about the Mahimahi or smaller tuna but what the hell suppose to be a few windows opening up weather wise so I want to be ready and I am not at the moment anyone want to help!!!PEACE

Life is so alive over here. Yesterday I went to a pot luck over at pat simons place. It was a get together of musicians that have a pot luck once a month and just jam. Freakin unreal, the highlight of the evening was actually Pat's son who is so gifted in his own right its amazing . So yaa the energy keeps flowing but dam I'm tired from all this positive crap!


On a side note I actually smoked a bunch of fish this week, you have to do it at night when the temp's down turned out the bomb, when you guys come visiting that salmon or steelhead you bring me goes a long ways and is shared by some really great people!!!PEACE