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Mar. 17th, 2005 06:02 pmhttp://www.hawaiiweb.com/hawaii/html/sites/1871_trail.html
I don't take a camera with me when I travel any more. The above site has fabulous photos of the Big Island.
I'm having such fun telling my friends and co-workers stories about my trip. The shark story is the best one. This is where I saw it:
http://www.hawaiiweb.com/hawaii/html/sites/puuhomua_o_homaumau_national_historical_park.html
The photo at the bottom here shows the swimming and snorkeling areas:
http://pahoahi.tripod.com/kona/refuge.htm
My fish ID books arrived via UPS today, hooray. The shark looked to me like a a grey reef shark, though the text says that Galapagos sharks are more common offshore and are often mistaken for grey reef sharks. It had the thick body of the grey in John P. Hoover's Hawaii Fishes book. White tips are much sleeker. Hoover doesn't show tiger or bull sharks, though. I would've seen the stripes, so, not a tiger.
I don't know. http://www.maneatingsharks.com/Images/Bull/bull.jpg It looked like this - the thickness of its body was remarkable. But it could have been this (only no remoras or ragged first dorsal fin): http://www.metridium.com/movies/raggy.html (the one in the center under the words "Importance to Humans" looks good).
Then there's the crossing Kelakekua Bay story. It's here: http://www.hawaiiweb.com/hawaii/html/sites/captain_cooks_monument.html
See the bottom photo - that's taken from about 3/4 the way across the Bay (it's about a mile paddle) and 1/4 mile away from the monument. What turned out to be a couple day storm was kicking up as we were heading back from snorkeling around the monument. I'll not get into the getting launched story except to say my ankle was slammed between the boat and a rock while trying to launch and is a nice shade of green and purple, and my nose wasn't broken when it was also slammed. So anyway, we did get launched, and we're paddling back to the launch area. There are 4, 5 feet swells. There are white caps. There are more and more white caps by the minute. We are in an open deck molded kayak. Both of us are on the heavy side. We have already discovered that if one of us leans in any way, the entire boat capsizes. So. I'm in the rear, steering us in a zig zag so that we are not hit broadside by a biggish wave, but rather 3/4 on. At some point, however, we are in the middle of the Bay, and a 5, 6 foot swell is heading right for us, broadside, and it already has a white cap. It's going to hit us. I'm yelling, don't lean! Don't lean! the boat is self-bailing! Katerina is trying hard to not lean OR throw up, because she long ago got seasick, and I have been saying, please throw up down your lifevest, if you have to throw up, don't lean, don't lean. There's the noise of the wave. It's coming towards us. It's crashing over us. There's white water everywhere. Neither one of us leans, bless it, and we scoot forward, still in our kayak. YAY!
I don't take a camera with me when I travel any more. The above site has fabulous photos of the Big Island.
I'm having such fun telling my friends and co-workers stories about my trip. The shark story is the best one. This is where I saw it:
http://www.hawaiiweb.com/hawaii/html/sites/puuhomua_o_homaumau_national_historical_park.html
The photo at the bottom here shows the swimming and snorkeling areas:
http://pahoahi.tripod.com/kona/refuge.htm
My fish ID books arrived via UPS today, hooray. The shark looked to me like a a grey reef shark, though the text says that Galapagos sharks are more common offshore and are often mistaken for grey reef sharks. It had the thick body of the grey in John P. Hoover's Hawaii Fishes book. White tips are much sleeker. Hoover doesn't show tiger or bull sharks, though. I would've seen the stripes, so, not a tiger.
I don't know. http://www.maneatingsharks.com/Images/Bull/bull.jpg It looked like this - the thickness of its body was remarkable. But it could have been this (only no remoras or ragged first dorsal fin): http://www.metridium.com/movies/raggy.html (the one in the center under the words "Importance to Humans" looks good).
Then there's the crossing Kelakekua Bay story. It's here: http://www.hawaiiweb.com/hawaii/html/sites/captain_cooks_monument.html
See the bottom photo - that's taken from about 3/4 the way across the Bay (it's about a mile paddle) and 1/4 mile away from the monument. What turned out to be a couple day storm was kicking up as we were heading back from snorkeling around the monument. I'll not get into the getting launched story except to say my ankle was slammed between the boat and a rock while trying to launch and is a nice shade of green and purple, and my nose wasn't broken when it was also slammed. So anyway, we did get launched, and we're paddling back to the launch area. There are 4, 5 feet swells. There are white caps. There are more and more white caps by the minute. We are in an open deck molded kayak. Both of us are on the heavy side. We have already discovered that if one of us leans in any way, the entire boat capsizes. So. I'm in the rear, steering us in a zig zag so that we are not hit broadside by a biggish wave, but rather 3/4 on. At some point, however, we are in the middle of the Bay, and a 5, 6 foot swell is heading right for us, broadside, and it already has a white cap. It's going to hit us. I'm yelling, don't lean! Don't lean! the boat is self-bailing! Katerina is trying hard to not lean OR throw up, because she long ago got seasick, and I have been saying, please throw up down your lifevest, if you have to throw up, don't lean, don't lean. There's the noise of the wave. It's coming towards us. It's crashing over us. There's white water everywhere. Neither one of us leans, bless it, and we scoot forward, still in our kayak. YAY!