Enid, Mavis and Grant snorkeling
There was a very heavy rain storm overnight and it was overcast for most of today. It wasn’t raining when we left for Honaunau Bay, but started soon afterwards. But the rain had stopped by the time we arrived at the ocean, and it wouldn’t have mattered for snorkeling anyway, but it was a lot nicer to eat lunch by the ocean with no rain.
The water was quite turbid today, more so than when we were here last week. It has been windy for the last few days, and probably last night’s rain contributed to the cloudy water. However it was still much clearer than we had in Costa Rica.
The highlight of today’s snorkel was a white tipped reef shark which we watched for quite a while as it slowly swam over the reef.
After snorkeling was completed we went to the Place of Refuge (Pu`uhonua O Hōnaunau)National historical Park which is just across the bay from the snorkeling site.