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@giles are you reading “let my people go surfing?”
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I need to read that one - I watched one of his Ted Talks and he seems like a brilliant business man and good all around person
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Sadly, nowhere that naturally beautiful. Just Fiji.
My heart goes out to him in this time of misfortune.
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This is my Kanreki present to myself….....a bit of diving and some fishing.....
It's a very long story, but the short version is....
Giles meets great South African (Chad) when fishing in Oman. Form firm friendship.
Chad tells Giles he is building an eco fishing lodge on a remote island in Fiji (it's called Yacata - Google it).
Giles says, oh great I'll come and spend my 60th there.
Chad says, won't be finished. Then in off hand way says "we're looking for investors"
Giles spends days working out how to broach subject of investing in a mad adventure with Paula. Plucks up courage and blurts it out.
Paula says "fuck yeah".
Giles picks himself up off the floor.
We invest.
We are in Fiji.
Lodge not built.
Probably end up sleeping on beach.
Neither of us has ever been so excited about something in our lives..... -
No one really knows about the fishing in and around Yacata. It's never really been fished with fly and lure before. I will be one of the first (if not the first) person to spend a whole week fishing with a rod there. This is seriously exploratory stuff, we will be throwing lures and casting flies in and around islands and reefs that have never seen the like before. We do not know what we will catch (though we can make some informed guesses), where we will catch and what sizes we will catch….
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G - “I bought a watch.”
“Paula says "fuck yeah".”
Paula - “I bought 5 more pairs of sunglasses.”
G - “fuck.”just a guess. but having known you both for such a long time now….
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& you kids have fun!!! safe travels
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This is my Kanreki present to myself….....a bit of diving and some fishing.....
It's a very long story, but the short version is....
Giles meets great South African (Chad) when fishing in Oman. Form firm friendship.
Chad tells Giles he is building an eco fishing lodge on a remote island in Fiji (it's called Yacata - Google it).
Giles says, oh great I'll come and spend my 60th there.
Chad says, won't be finished. Then in off hand way says "we're looking for investors"
Giles spends days working out how to broach subject of investing in a mad adventure with Paula. Plucks up courage and blurts it out.
Paula says "fuck yeah".
Giles picks himself up off the floor.
We invest.
We are in Fiji.
Lodge not built.
Probably end up sleeping on beach.
Neither of us has ever been so excited about something in our lives.....You might be the coolest guy I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing. Seriously.
IT guy emails a handful of Japanese denim craftsmen and the one that responds is Haraki-San. IHUK is born and you get involved with and grow IMHO the best clothing brand on the planet. The brand evolves and becomes what it is today…full of unlimited potential.
About a decade down the road, through happenstance, you get involved with a fucking Fiji fishing lodge...just, wow!
Forget Yvon Chouinards, when is your biography getting published? (If you need a writer, let me know ;))
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You might be the coolest guy I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing. Seriously.
IT guy emails a handful of Japanese denim craftsmen and the one that responds is Haraki-San. IHUK is born and you get involved with and grow IMHO the best clothing brand on the planet. The brand evolves and becomes what it is today…full of unlimited potential.
About a decade down the road, through happenstance, you get involved with a fucking Fiji fishing lodge...just, wow!
Forget Yvon Chouinards, when is your biography getting published? (If you need a writer, let me know ;))
Quoted for the truth. Gives me hope for the rest of my life too. It all seems risky, but also the good kind of crazy risk that you may as well as you only live once kind of thing. Kudos to you for living good sir!
