Hawai'i Ocean Expo.

I attended the Hawai'i Ocean Expo this past weekend. The Ocean Expo is an annual two day event held at the Neal Blaisdell Center on Oahu. This event is an Expo where numerous ocean realated buisness gather in one area and set up booths to advertise there product. All types of people from experienced ocean men and women to the beginner ocean go'er gathers together to check out the latest and greatest ocean toys. The Ocean Expo is also an attraction for fishermen as it is also where one of the biggest fishing tournements in Hawai'i holds its weigh in. Fishermen go out the friday before, and spend their weekend trying to catch the biggest Ulua (giant trevally) where they then bring it in to the expo for the weigh-ins on sunday. Some of the booths that i found especially interesting include Naoki's Catch of the Day Gyotaku booth, Mike Hatcher's Hatch Customs booth, Fresh Catch Seafood booth, and the HammerHead Spearguns booth.
I took some pictures for you guys to enjoy.

Naoki presented his Gyotaku work beautifully on the back wall. I especially like the use of multiple boards to divide up the print of the bigger fish , such as the Ahi, Mahi Mahi, and the Uluas.

This was the other part of Naoki's presentation of his artwork,

I thought this shirt that Naoki made was especially interesting. Its a whole bunch of menpachi printed together in the form of a dive flag.

These are a couple of my personal favorites, I find mu difficult
in Gyotaku to truly capture the essence of the fish, Naoki does this very well in this print.

Another favorite of mine, a large kumu not too overloaded with
detail.

Mahi Mahi on the hunt.

Family of Uluas getting lucky with a school of Aholehole

The Alaska adventure booth also used Naoki's gyotaku to
attract viewers to their booth.

The Alaska Adventures picture wall

Boats, Boats, Boats!

Ono grinds at the Fresh Catch booth. I got a pokebowl with
shoyu poke, it was super good!

Mike Hatcher had two of his guns up, I was espcially fond of the
gun on the left in the photo. Its a 55" rear handle plus with a white
handle, white track, and white reel line. Its the same color match up
that i plan on getting on my Hatch. 

I know the last expo post had a blurry gopro mount from Hanapaa,
so i got a new photo of the mount.

Naish SUP boards that the Hawaii Extreme Sports tent.

drooling over some completely decked out kayaks from Go Banans