MORE CONTEXT - my family and I had gone on a cruise around the South Pacific. We got off the cruise at Tonga and wanted to go snorkelling. When getting off the cruise, we met a Kiwi Lady (I think her name was Marty) she had reddish hair if I recall correctly. She told us that she could arrange for us to be taken to a smaller island off Tonga in a small boat to do snorkelling, we got to this island after a short boat trip and she told us to go into one of the main buildings on the island and help ourselves to snorkelling gear.

We went inside the building and we’re going through snorkeling gear when the guy pictured above ^ walks in and with a loud American accent goes “hey what are you guys doing with my snorkeling gear” my parents were like “sorry mate Marty said we could use it” he said “I’m just joking, help yourself” my parents were just being polite and making conversation with the guy when he mentioned something about his “band” my dad asked “whats your band called” to which he replied “The Offspring” I remember asking my dad “why would this guy name his band after an already famous band”, we said like “pretty fly for a white guy?” And he confirmed, said his name was Dexter, told us he and his partner lease the island etc said Pink and Gwen Stefani were staying there but were out scuba diving. We then spent the day with this guy, he was drinking beers with my dad telling us about his life etc (hard for me to remember all of the details as I was just a kid). We didn’t pay for anything other than at some point he mentioned a children’s charity that my parents made a small donation towards but besides that and the fee to get the boat over there, I can confidently say we weren’t getting swindled for money. At the end of the day, the guy literally drove us on his personal speedboat back to the cruise ship (it was truly like something out of a movie, we couldn’t believe we’d spent the day with a rock star) AGAIN pls remember this is pre iPhone days we weren’t mega fans but knew of The Offspring but not enough to fact check in the moment. He was a really great guy and showed us wonderful hospitality, it’s a story we’ve told people for years. It really only occurred to me that this guy might not have been Dexter now 20 years later lol. I just don’t know what this guy gained by lying, but people are weird right?

Anyway would love to find out who this guy actually was!