June 28, 2014
It's 10pm and it's still eighty degrees. I woke up at 7:30 and it was eighty degrees. It turned out that was the coolest it was going to be all day. I stepped out onto the lanai and was hit by a wave of humid air that took my breath away. I was sweating like a water sprinkler in seconds. The sweat was literally squirting out of me! Then just to start my day off with a minor stroke, a gecko ran right across my toes. It's only four inches long but I screamed like Godzilla was living on the porch!
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| Squish the lizard! |
He ran across my toes and right up the wall into the gutters. I think I'll name him/her Squish. Because if it happens again he/she will be.
Lisa had a yogurt, a banana and half a road kill avocado. I had
the other half and a couple of cheese dog wraps.
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| Road kill avocado |
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| Breakfast? |
I had a quick shower because I was headed to the pool to cool down. We haven't used the pool yet. I wasn't even sure where it was. We found it right beside the ocean. Lisa wanted to go down to the waters edge and I wanted to get into the pool. She got part way down and realised that flip flops may not be the ideal footwear on the rocks.
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| Death defying flip flops |
She came back and got the keys so she could go get her adventure shoes. I went swimming. It must have been 90 degrees now. She came back and gave me the keys, you need the key to get on the shore, took the camera and was gone . I checked on her every once in a while, but basically she was gone for an hour. Lisa always seems to find interesting things when she is on the shore.
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| Loving the view |
I checked on her from the pool every once in a while. She was always crouched down poking at or taking a picture of something or other.
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| I'll be in the pool! |
I did my four stair stretch on the pool deck.The concrete is hard on the heels! Five sets of twenty alternate arm reaches. No sit ups because I was alone, also no pictures because Lisa had the camera. No way I was doing crunches on that concrete, I lay one of the recliners flat, put down a towel and did ten sets of twelve. There was an old guy trimming his nose hairs with a hand held mirror on the second floor watching me. That's the truth! I swear I heard him laugh. By the time I was done, you would think I had already been swimming. I was dripping wet and steaming hot. Peeled off my shirt and rolled into the pool. I swam laps for about twenty minutes till Lisa showed up.
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| Loving the condo! |
We have a pretty good waterproof camera, so we were goofing off in the pool taking pictures of each other underwater.
I call it the Mermaid and the Blowfish. Guess which one I am?
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| The little Mermaid |
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| Who you calling Blowfish? |
Back to the condo for a shower. They put so much chlorine in the pool, I smelled like an airport urinal!
We packed a cooler with frozen bottles of water, and a couple of unfrozen ones as well, fired up Sparky for a stop at the Sally Anns. I need a book. It took so long to get here, I read both I had with me on the way. I buy a lot of books from them and today was half price day! One dollar for two books! A Grisham I haven`t read and a Lee Child, Jack Reacher novel. I just need to get Tom Cruise as Reacher out of my head.
From there, we drove aimlessly along the shore, air conditioning on stun, looking for a beach. The people we rented the condo from had told us that the Sheraton had a great beach and turtles. We parked and went to the Public access part of the beach. It was about twenty yards of jagged lava rock surrounded by Hotel guests only and no trespassing signs! Mahalo Sheraton!
Sparky said the outside temperature was now ninety-two degrees. About 2 miles down the road we saw a beach with sand. A seemingly unique thing on the Big Island. When you do find a sand beach, the sand is very coarse and mixed with Lava rock. Makes your feet feel great! This was a good choice The water was full of fish and we saw a few Sea Turtles too.
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| Fish |
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| Not fish |
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| Fish |
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| Not Fish! |
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| Fish |
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| Not fish |
I was close enough to touch the turtle. I don't know if you're supposed to touch them...but I did. His shell was slippery with algae and felt really hard. He didn't even stop grazing. We were in the water for a couple of hours. I was so wrinkled I could have passed for a foreskin!
We were cutting it close. We had to be at the Fairmont Orchid for a Luau with Nin and Krista and everyone who made it to Hawaii for their nuptials on Monday. I had my third shower of the day and settled in to wait for Lisa. She was worth the wait. I was sure I took a picture of her. Ooops!
The food was excellent. Three kinds of Poke,( marinated raw fish with spices,) pulled pork, beef, chicken and a ton of sides and salads. After the dinner was done the entertainment began. I will introduce you to Nin and Krista and show a few shots of the stage show that told the histories of the Polynesian peoples.
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Krista and Nin, our hosts
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It was a really good show, telling the history of the Islands from a Polynesian perspective. It could have used more fire. I like the fire bits.
Thirty-five people made their way to Hawaii for the wedding. Krista`s family and friends came all the way from Toronto while Nin`s family and friends had a little easier journey from the West Coast. Half of them ended up flying into Maui after United cancelled their flight without notice. Well, we`re all here now and looking forward to the wedding on Monday. Lisa and I were invited to play golf tomorrow at the resort but we declined.
I know, weird! We golf all the time. We don`t know when we will get to snorkel in Hawaii again.
It`s one hundred miles to what is supposed to be the best snorkeling on the Island. We are getting up early to maximize our sunburns, Lisa has been crashed since we got home at ten. Between the sun and the snorkeling it really takes it out of you. I considered crashing myself, but I have become a blogging junkie! I can`t sleep until I get all this stuff out of my head. My head is now empty. I will leave you with a picture of Tess, this cute little three year old we shared a table with and some flowers from around the condo. Lisa told me what they were, but who listens to their wife?
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| You looking at me? |
That's all I got.
Till next time
Peace Out Y'all
©2014 Dave Squatch Ward
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