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.

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.