We usually keep things light on a travel day. Since our plane doesn’t leave until 10:30pm we kept our room so we could do whatever we wanted today and still freshen up before heading to the airport. So we didn’t keep it light today, we packed in a full and lovely day.
I saw at least a dozen flying fish this morning. The light was just right to make them super visible. Here’s a stock photo.
They don’t actually fly. They propel themselves out of the water at around 35 mph and glide. It’s pretty neat to see.
After breakfast (we finished off the last of our delicious Maui Gold pineapple. So good) we headed back out to the beach we enjoyed yesterday.
Once again we simply people watched, relaxed and snorkeled for a bit. There was a nice bit of reef not too far off the shoreline where we saw lots of fish and a red crab.
I haven’t seen too many crabs during my snorkeling and diving so it was a rare find. I think it was a Ghost Crab (pictured above.)
This bird circled us and squawked at us for a while. We named him Squawky.
Mike briefly considered getting a burrito. He quickly came back to his senses and got a couple of fish tacos. So did I.
Lunch on the lanai was quickly interrupted. We both were snapping a couple of photos of the view before eating when we spotted a huge turtle very close to a couple of snorkelers. The snorkelers were oblivious so I whistled down to them and we pointed them toward the turtle which was very close to shore.
She eventually beached itself. And yes it’s a she…
Mike and I decided to run downstairs to see the rare site of a turtle on the beach.
We are too late to catch it on the shore but we did get to see this.
As you can see in the video the turtle was swimming close to the shoreline chomping on algae. Then, out of nowhere a male turtle came up behind what we now know is a female and tried to mount her. His love was scorned as far as we could tell. This was really fun to see up close.
After lunch we packed up our suitcases and prepped for our departure. Then I took a nap. When I woke up we watched the final episode of Loki. (Anyone else watching this show? We’ve enjoyed it!) We headed over to the food trucks and split Broccoli Beef and some potstickers. We freshened up and headed out to the airport around 6:30pm.
We considered staying to see the sunset but both of us prefer getting to the airport with plenty of time to spare. And I wanted to stop by Maui Tropix to get a new sweatshirt. (I left my old Maui Sweatshirt on the flight from SMF to SFO. Filed a lost and found report. I hope I get it back!)
Here’s the new hoodie.
Now we are sitting at the airport, looking forward to seeing our dog and sleeping in our own bed. I don’t care too much for overnight flights but on this one we are in lie-flat seats again so I hope we get a little sleep.
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