I have lost two cousins in the past year or so picking opihi's. The most recent one was my cousin Kent picking some for breakfast during a fishing tournament. The ocean gives life and will take it away.

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

Donnie Mays sorry for your loss brother

@johnfraser8116

6 жыл бұрын

So sorry to hear that. Please accept my condolences.

@ireneespinosa3476

3 жыл бұрын

😢😥 I love nature but that's why I am so afraid to oceans and rivers. Aloha to them all the way to heaven 🙏😔

@ka-boom2083

2 жыл бұрын

What? Did they pass away due to eating poisoning or due to being swept away by the sea?

Native Hawaiians were taught to ALWAYS respect the ocean, because it provides life and takes away life. No matter if you are on the rocks or on the sandy shore, you must keep an eye on the water. My mom grew up in a remote area on East Maui and it was common practice for them to "live off the land" or gather ʻopihi (limpet), hāʻukeʻuke (purple flower looking sea urchin), pipipi (little black snails) & limu (seaweed) for their meals. It was vital to manage their resources for long term use and not exploit these resources for profit. Except for the pipipi, the other items were eaten raw. if you enjoy eating high priced sushi, then eating these delicacies in its pristine state should not be a problem. Aloha.

@elainebts4ever584

5 жыл бұрын

The sea ,the land and the elders and if you disrespect any of these its trouble in my household

A very kindhearted, rich in conscience person he kept on emphasizing the importance of being very careful and attentive to the surroundings when picking and prying out the shells

Props or making video👍 I'm sure it's been said already but us Hawaiians pronounce it O-Pee-Hee and not O-Pee-Eee- I'd also suggest a butter knife so you don't accidentally lacerate your catch - I use a butter knife or a small flat metal tool (like one used for spackle) - and the "guts" actually is healthy to eat. It's not like crabs or shrimp where you want to stay away from the "innards" - Opihi graze on algae all day... So they're essentially vegetarians. 🤙

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

much mahalo and yes a butter knife is best for opihi

@DarrynJones

5 жыл бұрын

I'm just surprised that @@gabehumphries5483 used a knife instead of a machete 😄

A little ash never hurt anyone, tell that to the people of pompeii

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

no can do brah no can do

@mateanfosmo5169

4 жыл бұрын

I couldn't picture living im a meaters of ash

We always pick Limpets aka Opihi but we boil then blend ours, we then add olive oil and a garlic to make it into a smooth pate for toast in the morning, nom nom!

@yusfishdotcom7830

3 жыл бұрын

wow sounds delicious!

Nice video but a few things, the H isn't silent in Opihi........ also its better raw and you're supposed to eat the whole thing guts n all try um next time braddah

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

Mafi Talasinga Mahalo

@alexcarter8807

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah he says is like Opi'i but it's Opihi.

People from hawaii the locals eat the guts , the guts is the best part.

@monikerone3203

5 жыл бұрын

LilGreezaGaming 123 in Hawaii it’s okay to eat the guts, but on the mainland it’s dangerous because they can have toxins that can cause brain damage. They eat types of plankton here called red tide that has an acid that is very toxic.

@thatonehead

4 жыл бұрын

MonikerOne actually they’re omnivalves and are safe because they just graze on seaweed unlike bivalves that filter the water and process and clean it. They’re like snails not clams, idk if i’d eat a mainland one raw but in the right spot i might

I live in Nova Scotia, Canada. We have the best lobster and scallops in the world. I go picking for oysters, mussels, bar clams and quahogs. Quahogs are in the mud flats and are my favorite. I would love to show you how we harvest here, and I would love to come try what your shore can offer.

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

very cool. mahalo

Wow! I just gathered a bunch of these a few weeks ago and was perplexed as to what they were, now I know they're edible! Thanks for shedding some light bro!

@addisonmacaluso9818

3 жыл бұрын

Why gather a natural resource if you don't know what it is? Sounds wasteful

@trashfishtvoregon7290

3 жыл бұрын

@@addisonmacaluso9818 I was using them for fishing bait I just didn't know you could eat them. Get wrecked you don't know everything Karen.

@addisonmacaluso9818

3 жыл бұрын

@@trashfishtvoregon7290 You should know what something is before you take it, regardless of what you're using it for. Some species are protected due to an endangered status, making harvest (even for bait) illegal. Others have a bag or size limit, or a season, making harvest (even for bait) outside the range illegal. Research what something is and know the law before you take.

@addisonmacaluso9818

3 жыл бұрын

@@trashfishtvoregon7290 You said you gathered a bunch without knowing what they are. They have a minimum size limit. Your statement basically announces that you broke the law.

Learn so much from your videos gabe thank you

That looks fun. Love the vid.

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

Gerry Funke paradise has its perks

be careful out there getting them

Cool video

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

James Nibarger mahalo

Those look really good to eat really love this channel and videos very interesting stuff specially the chocolate making 👍👍

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

Joel correa much mahalo

@joelcorrea8260

6 жыл бұрын

Nahhh mahalo to you broo for your content

Dude they look so good right now freaking craving lmao

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

ono

I love the sprouted coconut cotton candy.

Great video. The clams looked great!

Some advice on the cooking bit :P. Start a fire a before you actually start cooking to get some embers going while you go out to forage. This way when you return you can just lay them on the hot embers to cook inatead of risking it from falling into the fire.

Not too fond of water, especially water that wants to kill me. I will eat Spam. Thank you for the video, Gabe

You down with Opihi pihi? Yeah, you know me.

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

Sev Pha LOL

Rocking that Finn hawk I love mine very good price and great edge

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

duke togo its a good knife

@deathbyastonishment7930

6 жыл бұрын

H.I.S Survival how does it compare to a mora?

Gotta be quick, the abalone here will suck to the rock and be impossible to remove if you so much as tap their shell. Hard to gather when they are in 1-1.5m of water with a rocky bottom and even a slight tide, definitely need more than a pair of eyes

I never heard of them things.i'll have to try them.looks like you have a great life there.keep up the great work!

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

Ken Coleman mahalo brah

@aftaflash

6 жыл бұрын

They taste like a rubber eraser. They have a little face with antenna eye balls. My friend and I gathered them while on kawaii.

Now I want to eat opihi

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

mahalo for watching

I wanna get lost with you. Lol. U r very resourceful.

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

now I'm dealing with lava......great adventure

I know you meant good, but when you throw them back into the ocean they would have a hard time attaching back to a rock and if they go into deep water they will be eaten anyways.

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

into a tidepool

Awesome 👍👊🤘

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

REAPER MILITIA SIDETRACKED shoooots brah

you just hit them quickly with a rock. Give them a tap and they come off fast. If you do it slow theyll suction on harder

one of your best videos yet like the Edc bushcraft opihi man take your bag and run sometime when the surfs up talk about the square rock in the background

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

Ray Stebbins power of the ocean can move huge rocks. much mahalo brah

Super!

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

mahalo

Cooking opihi??? Better raw, but still enjoyable with soy sauce or garlic/herb butter. Thank you for sharing!!!

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

mahalo for watching

No concerns of people over picking limpets here in Ireland, nobody eats them. I pick them the odd time and throw them into into my marinara spaghetti. Their an aquired taste due to their texture more than anything but I find they taste better if you leave the guts in.

Do you know what kind of iron wood it is? in england we only really talk about persian ironwood 'perrotia persica'

Make it easy for yourself and use an old chisel (not a knife ) and put them through a mincer then make patties out of them they wont be chewy then,

proper pronunciation for opihi is (O-pee-hee) not (O-pee-e)

@x22boi85

3 жыл бұрын

Shaddup scrub

@rodendeguzman5011

3 жыл бұрын

@@x22boi85 you like scrap or what

It's all about knowing your location, if you get greedy and go to risky spots then yeah you could get swept out to sea, I picked them as a kid all day long, just be ready to hug a rock lol

wire mesh would be nice complimenting the stove...makes cooking way easier..nice vids btw

lol,,we call them limpets and they very tough to eat, like rubber but nice flavour

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

yep like rubber

@karlwooduk

6 жыл бұрын

haha,, chewy but tasty,, love the videos

Could you possibly do some sort of fishing video? Perhaps of you making a spear and using it or going through tide pools and finding creatures to eat? (I don’t know if hawaii has tide pools or not I’ve never been to hawaii)

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

more fishing videos soon

I especially want some of those Sheldon shell clams that are onliest fresh as it gets.

Throw some hawaiian chili pepper water and shoyu on top. Winnah!!

I think a helmet would be useful if there's no way to just sustain a small farm of them after procuring several of them and the type of rocks they live on while every so often coming to the ocean just to gather some of its nutrient rich water(keep in mind we don't process nutrients as well as other organisms that we eat).

I have learned there are many bacteria and dirts on the side that abalone face to rock. Some people even using the brush to clean the abalone very carefully. So I’m just asking do we have to do the same way on Orpihi before we cook it?

Thank you sir yes good video. must have more foraging an please.poi?

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

mrfixit011 Mahalo!! Poi is on the menu

@mrfixit011

6 жыл бұрын

Menu ha ha ha lol You funny!! menu

What did you edit this with PowerPoint? 😂

I wear a life jacket when I do this;)

Interesting.

Do you get sneaker waves there like we do here on the coast of Oregon? It can run inland many feet more than the regular surf. People especially children can drown in some areas if not watchful.

Wut bu, u no eat da dodo sack?? U killin me,das da best part.

Wow amazing 😎😎😎

Cool channel 👍 is this video on the Big Island?

can you do more coastal foraging videos. showing different things you can eat from the ocean around hawaii? i am interested in that

I use car key for to get them loose, and take only every other one leave some for others, no?

OPIHI!! WE EAT EVERYTHING BUT THE SHELL ...UUUMMMM

in Portuguese these are called Lapas

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

mahalo for the info

besides the as usual interesting & informative topic, those are nifty "segue's" (not sure of correct film-technique word) between your shots :) .. mahalo!

I swore you said "Opi'i" a few times :-).

Why don’t you eat the whole thing? I’ve always eaten the whole thing guys and all cooked or raw!

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

gjkluvvv you can I just don't like da guts. Mahalo for watching

Nice video..

Why not remove the gut sack at the start before cooking ,, plus Limpet is best gathered at very lo tide.

Why dont peoole just put arm floaters on just in case being washed out? Seems simple enough but i dont live in hawaii

2:17 what are those yellow stuff on the rocks? And why am I still watching this in 2018?

Opihi (Oh-pee-hee), not Opi'i (Oh-pee-ee)

Is there in north shore

Is there a state law that limits the amount of Opihi you can collect in a day?

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

william az yes there is a size minimum and limit on numbers you can pick. mahalo

@barrybueler3356

6 жыл бұрын

Like I’ll listen not

@senpaisanchoyt5225

6 жыл бұрын

Barry Bueler Its best in the long run if you do :P

@barrybueler3356

6 жыл бұрын

SenpaiSancho YT if I do p I’ll try the p thanx for the p advice✌️

Limpetts

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

my bad

I’d eat it on a dare or if I had to but I’d definitely throw a line in that water before eating those shells maybe I’d like em who knows I do like fried clams yummy 😋 in my tummy that guy lost two family members picking these shells sorry to hear gotta watch ur surroundings there last though must of been why didn’t I pay attention and that’s a Shitty last though not how I wanna go drowning is one of my phobias definitely like breathing and those people who fall into giant cracks in the ice at the poles and just get caught in the ice like 100 yards down and slowly die from cold hunger and it can’t be easy to breath smashed between two huge blocks of ice spooky shit at least u don’t have to worry about the ice part 😁✌️

"you can eat it however you want,everything is edibal"... Then after there cook he says "you don't wanna eat all this guts part" lol

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

Cj Foust I wasn't in a survival situation so I'm not going to eat the guts LOL

Super random question, not related to this video in particular, but what are your views on non permitted homes/structures and is it something that happens on the island a lot?? Im asking for my own personal reasons (I am wanting to build an non permitted structure in Mt. View area) and I cant seem to find all that much on the topic on youtube or anywhere else for that matter. I would greatly appreciate and info you could lend, knowing you are from the area I would love to know your perspective. Mahalo!

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

Tara Rodgers It's a Jungle Out There and I think everyone around here has lived in a structure that might not have a permit.....

@Ryanb895

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry Levi it's not up to you. Just because you were born somewhere doesnt mean you dictate who gets to live there. The earth belongs to all of us. Hawaii is a US state. They voted to become a state.

@JesusisJesus

6 жыл бұрын

Levi, it was either that or you'd be speaking Japanese by now.

@meadow5962

6 жыл бұрын

Levi why do you hate so much? Do you have no "haoles" that were born and raised in the islands? Are all people that aren't full blooded Hawaiians included in your hate?

Big Island?

Are you ok you seem lonely

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

lonely? no. I have you

What knife is that? Thanks.

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

kwarnisplayer cold steel Finn hawk. its ok. I like Mora knives better

No cook em just eat em 💯 if you like be Hawaiian just eat em off the rock

Use surprise and a stone rather than a knife, why double the risk.

can we eat those yellow seaweed?

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

yes

ay bruh! . . the natives call them . . oh pee hee's!

do you use a camera person?

Why don’t you get the views you deserve

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

Paul time is on my side

Opihi not ope’e

Is that a chimaira tattoo on your leg? Find these kind of videos oddly relaxing. Need to get tot he coast...

A few of those "throw backs" didn't even make it to the water.

What beach is this?

Otherwise known as a limpet.

Okay...it's very dangerous... We get it...

It would have been easier with a simple butter knife.

eat it raw right out of the shell

No crab?

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

not that day

mniam 😛👍

food for a mouse

My friends uncle died doing this

Why dangerous

It looks a reese

You eat the hole thing 🤦🏽‍♂️

You keep mispronouncing the word opihi. You keep pronouncing it without the h!! It’s not opi’i! Get it right!!

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

kekau1979 Hawaiian pidgin is a language mostly comprised of mispronounced words. Da, dis, fo, mo, bettah.....make sure you correct everyone.

@kekau1979

6 жыл бұрын

You are confusing pidgin English with the HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE!! They are two completely different languages!! Accept your mistake. I’m merely helping you to better your pronunciation so people take you seriously. When we know better, we do better. Good luck!

All that for 5

when your picking opihi use one butter knife, not like dis guy..

@gabehumphries5483

6 жыл бұрын

I'm test a knife so the company and my viewers what to see it used

what is a fuking OPE anyway

Next time let the locals do a video. Make us look bad . Lol plus overcooked , sticks as tongs ? Come on ,be a man . Grab them with your fingers . Eat them without the guts ? I don’t know anyone local or haole that removes guts . That’s the flavor 🤷🏾‍♂️. And we eat them raw . U should just stick to “your kind “food . Try spaghetti

wanna be..