Hawai’i 2007: Day Eight

August 26th, 2007

Today started slowly as we’re getting tired. I was up at 6am ready to snorkel but Autumn said she was too tired so we went back to bed. Aiden woke up not feeling well due to being hungry and not drinking enough fuilds. Around 10am he started feeling better so we started the trek to Anaeho’omalu Bay (A’Bay) for hopefully some turtles basking in the sun.

We arrived near 11:30am and were initally greeted to five turtles feeding offshore. As we moved down the southern side of the sandy and lava rocked beach we came across a pair of green sea turtles sunning themselves. Jackpot. I took numerous photos

Walking a little further we happened upon a solo turtle sunning on the sand. He noticed us right away and on the next large wave made a b-line for the water. The one thing about A’Bay was that it’s extremely hot in the sun. After about an hour everyone was baking hot.

Returning to the car we left for the Waikoloa food court for lunch. Eating Subway and pizza so Aiden will eat. Driving back towards Kona we stopped at a beach off the highway down a dirt road. Sadly it looked better from the highway.

Back in town we did some shopping and I then took a short snorkel in Keauhou Bay. Now we’re eating dinner at Crystal Blue watching the sunset.

Tomorrow is our last full day on the Big Island. So far the early plan is to snorkel A’Bay in the morning then its a toss up afterwards.

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