BACK IN THE WATER

Aloha! Well Jackie and I made it back into the water today for a very relaxing snorkel. The weather was great as was the water. We had a real good time getting re-aquainted with all our old buddies and managed to find most of them fairly easy. We did have a bit of trouble locating turtle rock though. We started our snorkel with the plan of checking out the edge of the reef first, then swimming over by turtle rock and then out to the buoy. Well the first leg was very easy. We found the spot we like to visit by the reef with no problems. There were a lot of fish and the visibility was ok. From here its only a short swim of about 40 yards to turtle rock. Well we got to where the rock was supposed to be...no luck! I figured we were a little too far out so no problem...we'll just swim back towards shore a bit and there it will be. No such luck! We must be too far to the right so again no problem...we'll just go a little to our left and there it will be. Well again no luck! We had given up on finding that darn rock by now and had just started to swim out to the buoy when we swam up on Mr. Honu. He swam along real slow with us and we followed him for about 2 minutes not paying too much attention to where it was he was leading and when the chase was over he had led us to, you guessed it, turtle rock so Jackie and I both had a good laugh at that! We got the short clip of the small honu on our way back in from the buoy. He was a little spooked so Jackie and I just let him go as we didn't want to stress him out.