Enid snorkeling at Kahekili Beach
We’ve been getting up half an hour later every day, so I guess our time is getting readjusted. It rained quite a bit overnight, but this morning was sunny and the wind didn’t seem as strong. We stopped at a supermarket on the way to Kahekili Beach, to see if the store was worth shopping at (it was, so we stopped there on the way home tonight to shop for groceries).
Kahekili Beach is quite nice. There is a good sized parking lot, with picnic tables, toilets, and shower. Today there were a lot of people for “Earth Day” at the park, and they were picking up garbage. Afterwards they had a picnic lunch.
The beach is sandy, but quite steep and drops off quickly. The coral start not far out from shore, and rapidly gets better as the water deepens. About 50 m from shore there is a very large bed of coral that parallels the beach. It was about 5 m below the surface, so you could see it well, and the water was reasonably clear, considering how windy it’s been.
Octopus
Several people were here Scuba diving. I think they were a class. I used my video camera on the extension pole for the first time. It was hard to hold it steady in the waves, but I could get quite a bit closer to the fish.
After lunch the wind picked up, and periodically it would mist rain. The wind was from on-shore (North East) so the water was not too rough, but it was picking up and whipping around the sand, so it wasn’t really all that nice on the beach. We were back in the shade, and a bit sheltered from the wind. I did get a little bit sunburned on my arms and back of my legs, as I was snorkeling for quite a long time today.