Kona, Hawaii

Well, I’ve been in the tropics for a couple days now.  The weather is warm, and the sun stays up longer than 4 hours at a time. The last couple days have been spend laying by the pool, and reading.  I am trying to be careful not to get burned.  It happens all to easy with my arctic tan.

The surroundings are nice.  There are palm trees and of course the ocean.  You’d think I’d have more stories after being here for this long, but really I have just been relaxing.

 

The hotel has a salt water swimming area that full of ocean fish, and even sea turtles.  Here is a picture I shot of a sea turtle swimming by the stairs along the edge of the pool.  You can snorkel in amongst these animals without venturing out into the ocean.

Last night Dad and I went to a little get together for the Alaska Telephone Association.  They had finger food, and free drinks down by the water.  This all took place as the sun was setting.

There were also whales breaching in the distance.  A couple of times they were 3/4 out of the water.  I wasn’t able to get a picture, of them, but here is what it looks like where they were jumping  😉

We are scheduled to go diving tomorrow morning early.  It will be a two tank dive, which means we do one dive, move to a different area, and do another dive.  Each dive we use one tank until we run out of air.  We were going to try to get on a Manta Ray dive this evening, but they were all booked up.  That would have been a night dive.  I guess some of the mantas have a wing span of up to 15 feet.  Pretty amazing.

I’ll fill you in on the details of the dive tomorrow.