Spotted moray eel
It was quite calm this morning, so we felt it would be a good opportunity to go to Honolua Bay and snorkel. The bay is a marine preserve, and is supposed to be good snorkeling, but only when it is calm. We drove north to just past mile 32 where there is a parking spot on the side of the road, and a very jungle-like trail through tropical forest about a quarter mile to the bay. There were no jungle birds though — just a lot of crowing chickens. Many, many chickens!
As it turned out, it probably is good snorkeling here sometimes, but it wasn’t great today. The fish were very large, probably some of the biggest we’ve seen, but the water just wasn’t very clear. We stayed out for about an hour, then sat on shore for a while. Most of the people didn’t stay long. We saw several come and go right away.
Bluestripe snapper
Gray chub
We also decided not to stay any longer. On the way out we talked to a couple from Australia. They didn’t even bother to walk all the way in, based on our advice (they’d been here before and wondered if it might be clearer today). Instead we just came back to the condo, and spent the day here reading and relaxing.
It didn’t get very windy during the day, but it must be very windy somewhere. The surf kept building all day, and by evening there were quite large waves at the seawall. On the weather information it says there is a high surf advisory until tomorrow morning.