A DAY OF FIRSTS

Aloha! It is very nice on Kauai at the moment. The heavy rains they were predicting hit to the south...mainly on Maui and the Big Island leaving us with awesome beach weather. Our snorkel this morning was very nice. The water was much improved and we saw the smallest honu Jackie and I have come across. This little guy was out close to the buoy and I think he might have been a hawksbill turtle. These guys are uncommon in Hawaii but Jackie and I had a pretty good look at him and to us it looked like his face was a little more hawk like and his shell looked a little serrated which is how you can tell the difference between the hawksbill and the more common green sea turtle. I was trying to get in the front of him so you could get a better look at his face but all I was able to do was to spook him! We didn't want to stress him any so we let him go on about his business and we went on with ours. In the same area we also came across a large school of unicornfish. There must have been close to 20 of these guys and almost all of them were at least 18 to 20 inches long. This is the first time we have encountered a group of unicorns this large. We normally see them either in pairs or maybe in a small group of 4 or 5. To continue with our day of firsts we also encountered a small humu. This guy was maybe 3 or 4 inches long but marked just the same as an adult.