Aloha! Jackie and I have been enjoying a marvelous day here on Kauai. We had a few rain showers this morning but nothing that lasted very long. The temps have stayed in the mid 70's with very light trades. Jackie and I took advantage of this great weather and headed to the beach. Anini seemed a little crowded but the fact that we normally have the beach almost to ourselves might be why we felt that way. The outside conditions were almost perfect with very little wind chop but the water conditions close to shore were terrible...the visibitity was limited to about 2 feet! If we both hadn't felt like we really needed to get in the water we never would have given it a try. We were hoping the water would improve as we got away from shore and it did but not until we were out about a 100 yards or so. We headed straight out to our spot by the buoy and ran into more honu than we have every snorkeled with at one time. There were at least 7 of them in an area about 25 yards around. While I was following the first honu Jackie ran across an eel that was at least 3 feet long. She said this one came all the way out of its hole and was swimming around the coral ducking in and out of the many holes there. Normally when they do this they are on the trail of a tako (hawaiian name for octopus) which is their favorite meal. She said when they swim it looks like a ribbon in the water. I followed my honu all the way out to the outer reef. Do you remember me telling you about the crevasse out there that always gives me chicken skin? Well thats where this honu lead us! You will see in the video where he disappears up this crevasse and I turn my attention to a smaller honu we ran into. Jackie and I followed the outer reef along for a pretty good distance and saw a lot of fish. We even saw two yellow tangs. We saw a lot of these on both Maui and Oahu but these were our first for Kauai. Hope everyone has a safe and happy new year!
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