FLYING GURNARD

Aloha! Jackie and I have enjoyed another marvelous day. The weather has been almost perfect with just a short rain shower this morning keeping it from being ideal. We got all our chores done yesterday so we've had all day to play. We started today at the lighthouse with the hopes of spotting a whale. If you want to see a whale this early into the season you need to either be real patient or lucky. Jackie and I were neither this morning so we will have to leave the whales for another day. After the lighthouse we went to the Subway and got two of their new flatbread sandwiches. Jackie tried the chicken and I tried the bacon and steak. They were both very good especially when you can enjoy them in your beach chairs at Anini! Jackie had sliced us an apple and a starfruit also so we had a gourmet lunch...a lot better than the peanut butter and jelly with the extra crunch I had yesterday! We sat in our chairs enjoying the view along with our coffee for a good while before deciding it was time to get in the water. The water was a little murky at our spot by the reef so we didn't hang around there too long and headed towards turtle rock, swimming upon a gurnard on the way. This guy wasn't as big as some of the other ones we have seen but we really got a kick out of seeing him anyway. After we left him we came across a stripebelly puffer asleep on the bottom. They spend most of the day asleep and do their feeding and other activities at night. After we left him we resumed our swim to turtle rock and we were rewarded with a nice honu to swim with. As a matter of fact we swam with three different honus today with the other two being out by the buoy. We will post the video of the honus tomorrow as I want to show you the gurnard today.