TV SATURDAY SNORKEL SUNDAY

Aloha! Jackie and I have had a very nice weekend. Saturday was spent in front of the tv. We watched a lot of college sports starting with the Huskies blowout win over Texas Southern. Of course this was basketball as their football program was busy getting whooped by Cal! Next up was the Zags and their win over Indiana. The OU-Missouri football game also received a lot of my attention along with a bit of the USC-UCLA game. Oh did I mention the Alabama-Florida game? We watched that game pretty intently also. As you can see this took up a good share of the day and that was just the start as we watched the Cougs lose to Baylor in a game I thought they should have won. Their defense was up to the task but they missed a lot of easy shots on offense and last but not least was the Hawaii-Cincinnati game. Hawaii was handing Cincinnati their lunch thru out most of the game and they were leading 24 to 10 with about 7 minutes to go when Hawaii Couged it! They must have studied the Cougs really well when they played them last week because the last 7 minutes was played like only the Cougars know how! It was almost 10 pm when this game finished so our Saturday was taken up almost entirely with tv. This morning the remote for my tv was missing and I was informed that if I looked for it I could expect extra crunch in my meals for at least a week so after a nice breakfast we put our swimsuits on and headed to Anini. The conditions were ideal. We snorkeled out past the buoy and said hi to most of our friends on the way. We were out for at least an hour only heading back to shore when we got cold. We sat in our chairs drinking coffee and enjoying the sun for quite awhile debating if we should go back out or not. Finally the nice conditions lured us back into the water with the hopes of spotting another gurnard like the one we showed you on our last post. We missed out on the gurnard but did run across a new fish...a pacific trumpetfish. This fish is similar to the cornets but a little smaller. Our book says they grow to about 27 inches with the one we saw being about 15 or 16 inches. These guys are flat from the side and thin from the top where as a cornet is thin from the side and flat from the top. We will post a little movie of him for you.