A pretty mellow week out and about on the lovely Big Island. It started out with me making a nice long trek to Makalawena last monday, which definitely seems longer than I remember it. I walk it at night, which has its pros and cons, but I think I favor it better than the hot sun of the day. I have a very small chance of being picked up by someone but it is very cool even chilly the later in the walk it gets. Surf picked up once I moved north a bit and I found a bodyboard at Kua Bay on one of my water runs to Kua Bay which was a nice mix up for stuff to do. I got in a couple of dives this week at Otec and Puako, which felt gret to get back into the diving since I haven't been breathing underwater in about two weeks. I should of mention it last week, but I did finally, after two years, finish The Brothers Karamazov and it is definitely the greatest and most enjoyable piece of literature I have ever read in my life. I then read As I Lay Dying this week and it was pretty solid but seemed much like a short story since getting off the Dostoevsky band wagon. I am almost through In Our Time by Hemingway and then onto Cormac Mcarthy's first novel The Orchard Keeper. Well her are some shots for the week, enjoy ;)

Week Won!!!

Back from my first week of being out in the bush and it went pretty well. Couple busted up toes and some gnarly blisters but I'll get over it I think. I spent Three days down at Makolea the black sand beach and then three days up at a beach in between Makalawena and Kua Bay. I like to call the second beach Sandy Roach. I seems to fit it nicely when night time roles around and the cockroachs come out by the hundreds. Pretty disturbing at first but you kinda get used to the little buggars as soon as you find they have been sleeping beside you in your tent. Well I have been slaying the fish so I have been eating like a king of late. I pulled a huge dumb ass and tried to haul my 25lbs of water across the lava fields and inevitably exploded two of my toes. Fortunately I proved myself wrong when I thought I broke my toe, so for that I'm pretty lucky. Other than that, my routine has been to swim and fish in the morning and to read and nap in the afternoon. Weather has been fantastic and the water nice and calm. Tough life I'm livin'.