Ever since forever I’ve had “go deep sea fishing with my dad” on my bucket list and what better place to do it than Hawaii?! So before we even got to the island my sister did a bunch of research and booked us a 4 hour private fishing tour! We woke up at 5:30am (lots of early starts on this vacation) and went to the Lahaina Harbour to start our trip! We met our Captain and whatever the boat equivalent of a first officer is… first mate? I don’t know boats, I know airplanes. They went over the rules i.e. no bananas on board (bad luck) and if you’re gonna puke do it over the side of the boat, those kinds of things. We piled in and started our journey! It was every bit as fun as I was expecting! They dropped a couple lines in the water to try and catch some live bait, there’s no way of predicting how many you’ll catch it’s very hit-or-miss. We ended up getting 3 decent size mackerel, we were the only boat of the day to catch any live bait (and any fish, but more on that later). once we were out to the deep stuff we put 4 lines in the water 2 with live bait and 2 with frozen mackerel. There was lots of downtime just trolling around waiting for bites so I got some awesome tanning in (woohoo!!). The lines have bells on them so when they get a bite you’re well aware of it. About an hour and a half in one of the bells went off and the first mate, Johnny grabbed me and said here we go girl! (I’m pretty sure they forgot my name since they called me “girl” for the whole trip, but who cares, I’ll respond to basically anything) I grabbed the belt thing that the rod hooks into and I started reeling that sum’bitch in! … a good few minutes of hard arm work and the little SOB got away!! oh man did I ever want a fish after that! so we checked the bait… amazingly still alive and wiggling on the hook and we recast the line and went back to tanning and chatting about my super interesting northern life. Another hour and half-ish later the bell went off again and it was time to work! When the fish went for the bait she jumped right out of the water and everyone got a good look a the size of her and again I put on the belt and start reeling it in. A good probably 5 or 6 minutes of solid reeling and the fish was finally at the side of the boat. Johnny hooked her through the gut and brought her aboard, she flopped around getting everyone in a 3 foot radius mighty bloody and then they put here in a bag to sleeeeeeep (die). once she settled down (died) and Johnny cleaned all the blood and guts off the boat we took her out of the bag and I got my picture with her! Then the captain filleted her right there and gave us all the meat in a couple ziplocs. Yum yum yum we had Mahi Mahi for the next 3 days… I’m not a HUGE fish eater but dang when it’s that fresh (and you’re the one who caught it) you can’t really say no… and damn was she tasty! Fish tacos and BBQ fillets for days! On our way back into the harbour Johnny put a little yellow flag up on the outrigger which let the other boats know what we had caught (different flag, different fish) and none of the other boats caught anything in those 4 hours! MY beautiful 25lbs Mahi Mahi was the only catch of the day, GO ME! So here’s the pictures from the trip!
6:00am at the Lahaina harbour, the man in the white shirt was our captain
checking out the map
got to watch the sunrise from out on the sea, very pretty
one hell of a lure
First mate (left) and captain (right) trying to get some live bait
lots of time to relax
here we go!!
yay!! I got it!
Last picture with my catch before she got chopped up
yum yum yum!!
our flag to signify what we caught, only boat with a flag at the end of the day
The famous banyans tree, apparently it’s something like 140 years old… the branches grow out then down to the ground and root there. It’s at least 5 degrees cooler underneath the tree, really cool.
Stooph made amazing guacamole with our huge Hana avocado
Markie cooked for everyone! 
freshest fish I think ANY of us had ever eaten… caught less than 3 hours before!
fish tacoooooos
and some liquid aloha!
and another beauty sunset
Since we started our day so early we packed a lot of activities into it. SO MANY ACTIVITIES. We each rented snorkel gear on our first days there and used them almost every day. The snorkelling just outside our hotel was really great and that’s where the following pictures are from, but the BEST snorkelling EVER was just outside our parents hotel just down the beach at a spot called Black Rock, there will be plenty of pictures from there in another post. I got a wicked waterproof camera just before the trip and it took AMAZING pictures but under and above water. So here’s a ton of pictures from snorkelling.. enjoy!
mark twerkin’ in the horse mask
Hawaii’s state fish! The Humuhumunukunukuapua’a (there ya go Hugh!!)
awesome coral reef
yellow!
Markus just chillin’
we look really pumped but we’re just trying to get lower in the water haha
Markie swimming through a little trench
big urchin !
The yellow “bubbles” guy from Finding Nemo
I tried to fight a sign one day (kidding, I just straight up walked into it) and it bled through my rash guard, ouch.
This is the point called black rock very popular cliff diving place so we obviously had to jump off the two most right people are me and mark (my brother’s wife took the pictures)
… and she saw some Angel fish!
there I go! about a 30′ drop
weeeee!! 
Mark in front of the coral at Black rock
sea turtle!!!
the most awesome massive creature, moves through the water effortlessly
and then we saw a sting ray!!
Mark and I went for a very long swim around black rock instead of walking back to our resort and we saw another 2 sea turtles and another sting ray! Mark snapped this picture of two at once!
Hugs & Kisses from afar
xoxo
Laura
Momo with her foot on my part of the arctic!
off we go in the 207 with Captain Meathook!
Inuvik from the air
Pingo from the air
Arrived safely in Tuk!
Dad’s artistic shot for the trip
waiting for the cab to come take us to the ice house
There we go!
Momma going down the ladder
opened up one of the rooms and found a seal!! and some other meat, maybe reindeer?
FUN FACT: Karina, Kyle and I are locked in that room
shining a light into the permafrost layers
just after getting out of the arctic ocean
Chive on! From the Arctic Ocean!
Lu North, Strong & Free 