What a full day! We woke up at a reasonable time (6:45am) and had a bite of breakfast. I attended a 10am (PDT) fight club zoom meeting and got my batteries recharged. We then headed out for a walk along the beach. We walked to the first place we stayed together here on a Maui, the Kaanapali Villas. On our walk back we walked by three or four big houses right on the beach and fantasized about living there. Since we can’t bring our dog to Hawaii we nixed the idea of buying one of the multimillion dollar properties.
When we returned from our walk we headed over to Maui Fish Company to see if the overdone fish tacos we had in day one were just an anomaly. They were. We had some yummy tacos. While eating we saw several turtles swim by our hotel. Mike got a close up of one.
I had a scuba dive session reserved for 12:30pm so I headed out after lunch to Lahaina Divers.
I’ve gone on boat dives with this company for several years. Today we dove at a collapsed pier. If you look closely you can see part of a pier behind the sail boat.
The rest of this cement pier is underwater due to it’s collapse decades ago. The pier stretches under the sailboat to well beyond where I am taking the photo. The debris from the pier has created an incredible place for coral to grow, for sea life to inhabit and for divers like me to explore.
We did two dives 30-40’ deep, each lasting around 45 minutes. The time flew by since there was so much to see. Large schools of various fish, a large moray eel and several sea turtles in various sizes. A couple of young ones had shells that were large plater size and an old giant turtle with a shell around 4-5’ in diameter. Perhaps the largest one I’ve ever seen. It’s common to see a reef shark or two at this location but none were to be found this time.
Here’s video highlights of the dives.
Here are some shots from the dive boat (tug boat?) in between dives.
The group on the boat was friendly and the crew was great. Not an easy job. I saw a fish that I’d never seen before. Here’s a picture from the internet.
A good dive master can usually tell you what you saw if you describe it well. It told my dive master, “I saw two little light blue fish about 2 1/2” long, about the width of a pencil. When I got close they darted into a hole in the sand. Do you know what they’re called?”
She said, “they’re called dart fish. Because they dart into a hole when you get close to them.” I thought she was messing with me until she showed me in a Hawaiian fish guide book. I’ll be damned. They’re called dart fish.
With the dives completed I headed back to the condo. Mike and I headed over to grab some food truck dinner, this time from…
We split a very flavorful beef and broccoli and a yummy stir fried red snapper and ginger over rice with some potstickers. All delicious.
This brought us to sunset time. Not as spectacular as last nights’s but just as relaxing to enjoy.
For any tech nerds who are wondering how I’m getting the time lapse videos of the sunsets here’s the rig I’m using.
We are in bed by 8:30pm and ready for a restful night’s sleep after a really lovely day.
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