Saturday, November 29, 2008

North Shore big wave day












Todays HACC ride had the bonus of watching some of the enormous waves that the North shore is famous for. Surf report said 15-25 foot wave face through this evening. I can't imagine surfing in these conditions but there were 10-12 brave souls out there at sunset beach.



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Monday, June 02, 2008

More North Shore sealife

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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Kayaking North Shore




Our kayaks have been getting a good workout this past week. Last week we hit Kaneohe bay and the sand bar, then yesterday we went over to the North shore with Tracy and Micky, some friends who are TDY here from Japan. I remembered to bring our new underwater camera (which Pentax was nice enough to replace for us after the last one stopped working) and snapped these pictures of another big turtle out by the Waialua bay channel buoys. There's a deep drop off into the channel there and I can always count on seeing a few of these big fellows. There's no scale in the photos but it was what I call a "refrigerator door size." Before we left we paddled up the river a ways and tried to decide which shack we'd like to live in.

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Monday, September 24, 2007

Scuba Diving the North Shore






Sunday morning we met Mark and Debbie on the North shore at a place called firehouse to go scuba diving. We had rented some gear the night before so we were able to get in the water good and early. There are a lot of caves and swim throughs in the coral and it's a protected area for fish also. I spotted this rockfish doing his best to blend in. We did two dives at about 30-40 feet deep and really explored the area. I got to play with my new toy which is an underwater slate. It was a great time and we're talking about going to Maui for a dive trip next month already. We'll see.





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Monday, June 11, 2007

BIG turtle






As we were getting ready to leave our spearfishing spot I saw what I thought was a big flat rock under the water. The rock started moving and it turned out to be one of the biggest sea turtles I've ever seen. It's shell was about the size of a refrigerator door and the head was as big as a half gallon milk carton. I wonder how old it is? No one know's what their life span is but they take up to 4o years to mature into adults.

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Friday, January 19, 2007

Video's

I know a lot of people enjoyed those standing wave surf video's but I'm too ignorant to figure out how to post them without permanently imbedding them in the template like I have been. So the links are here and here

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