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| Sharks Cove |
Our day snorkeling at Sharks Cove
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| Sharks Cove looking out to sea |
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| one of the smaller pools at Sharks Cove |
I got a little behind in my posts so I am including two days in this one.
Day 12 - June 8, 2011
Today we decided to make a little more relaxed and close to home day. We slept in a little later and then got up and headed over to Sharks cove to do some snorkeling. I enjoy these type of days because no primping is required! You just run a brush through your hair, brush your teeth, put on your suit, grab your gear and towel and go! I could get used to this! We found that Sharks cove was mostly lava rock and little beach so we found a place to put down our things and slathered on the sun-screen and headed out to snorkel. Sharks cove was quite different from Hanauma Bay in that there isn’t a lot of calm water to snorkel in. I am not an experienced swimmer so I didn’t head out very far. Sharks cove is made up of numerous piles of lava rock in between small pools of water. When the tide goes out there are fish and other marine life that get caught in these pools. Most are not deep so you can see all kinds of things in these pools. I saw what looked like a rock in one pool – that is until it moved! It was a crab that had taken up residence in what looked like a clam shell with all kinds of barnacles. I watched it for quite a while. Eventually I found a cove that was deep enough to swim in, yet calm with no waves. That is more my style. Greg and I snorkeled there for a long time – he got what we hope are some great underwater pictures. I even swam for a while with a humuhumunukunukuapua’a!!! Greg got some pictures of him- I hope they come out! At one point we realized we were completely surrounded by a school of fish – they were about 4-5 inches long and silver. I said to Greg if this was a movie – I would be freaked out right now! But they were just curious and watching us – I think hoping maybe we would feed them. They stayed with us for a long time. We saw fish that were yellow, and blue, some that were striped, a black and orange one . . .so many fish! I actually saw more fish here in Sharks cove than I did at Hanauma Bay! We spent a couple hours just floating and watching what came our way. I love snorkeling – it is so peaceful underwater. When we were done – we walked up to the car and cleaned off and went up the hill to a place to get lunch. It was what we used to call “a roach coach” But these little food coaches have sprung up everywhere and you can get anything from shrimp, to chicken, to kalua, to smoothies at these coaches. They are just old repurposed buses or food delivery trucks and they have been turned into roadside eaterys. They are very popular here. I had a kabob plate with teriyaki chicken, mushrooms, green pepper and onion along with rice and black beans. Greg had a cheeseburger. We sat and relaxed and fed the chickens our left overs. That is another thing that fascinates me about the island – there are chickens, baby chicks, and roosters wandering everywhere! Talk about your free range chicken! After lunch we headed back to the cottage to succumb to the sleepiness that sunshine and swimming tend to bring on! We took a nap and then I caught up on my reading while Greg wrote a report for the business meeting at church. Greg grilled steaks for dinner and I made sweet corn, grilled mushrooms and a salad.
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| Sunset on our beach |
Day 13 – June 8, 2011
This morning while I was showering Greg headed back to the place we had eaten lunch at yesterday and picked up breakfast - a bowl of oatmeal with nuts and raisins for me and he got a breakfast sandwich and we each had a fruit smoothie to drink. Today was our last chance to pick up things at the swap meet so we headed out with our list in hand of soveniers to buy. We also wanted to get some more Hawaiian sweet bread. Took us about 2 hours but we found everything we were looking for. After the swap meet we decided to head over to Kaneohe and see if we could get on to the Marine Corps base and drive around to see what had changed. We stopped at the visitor center and explained to the sweet girl behind the counter what we wanted to do – unfortunately times have changed and unless we knew someone on base who could sponsor us they could allow us to go on base. We were disappointed and the girl felt terrible but there was nothing she could do. So we headed back to the car to see if we could think of something. Greg posted on Facebook to see if anyone knew someone on base, and while we were still sitting there in the parking lot the girl came out with a phone number to call on base and explain what we wanted to do and said they may be able to make an exception in our case. We headed back to the cottage but stopped at another roadside eatery in Kaneohe for lunch. We ordered a combo plate and split it – 8 grilled butterfly shrimp and kalua pork with salad, rice, and pineapple. We got back to the cottage and spent the rest of the day reading and relaxing. Greg called and left a message at the number we were given to see if we could get on the Marine Corp base. At 7 pm we headed down to the beach to catch some pictures of the sunset. It wasn’t the best circumstance for sunset pictures because it had been cloudy most of the day and the sun dropped behind the clouds pretty fast. I will try again for sunset pictures tomorrow.
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