Today the ocean was a whole lot different than it was yesterday. The great snorkel area we were at yesterday was getting pounded today. It would have turned me into hamburger meat! Talking with a surfer today, he told me that the waves were about 8 feet. The measurement is at the back of the wave, and the front is twice that. So an 8 foot wave is 16 feet high comming at you. There were quite a few surfers out today, but they are quite a ways out, and they don't come anywhere near shore when they terminate their ride. We were at Waimea and Sunset Beaches this morning, with the best surf at Sunset. The Banzai Pipeline is between these 2 beaches which are only a couple miles apart. We tried to get some pictures of surfers, but were only able to get the body surfers and the boogie boarders.
I did find one well protected cove to snorkel this afternoon that had lots of fish, but was only 3 feet deep with a lot of sharp rocks and coral. I managed to keep from getting scraped up. Only stayed in for about half an hour.
We took a drive down part of the east coast (we drove up it Tuesday) and checked out a couple of gift shops, then stopped for lunch. We didn't find much interesting, and a lot of the little roadside souveneir shops weren't open. They must not have known that Joyce was comming!
Tomorrow morning we head for Honolulu to catch a 1:45 flight back to reality. We've been getting lots of weather information from the home front, and it doesn't sound good! Snow in the mountains and hail in Seattle. We can hardly wait for February and the Arizona sun.
You'll be able to recognize me at the airport tomorrow night. I'll be the guy in the shorts, sandals, and Hawaiian shirt.
The final aloha, Ernie and Joyce
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