Yes. It’s New Year’s Eve day. Here’s our message. But the 5 pictures below are from yesterday’s drive around the northern ring of the island. The road gets very narrow - very quickly. Not yet tho. It’s always cloudy over that side. But reallly green and grassy. Wow! Lots of great views! This is the famous Honolua Bay. Ha how cute. A little village. Though I’m sure that he locals would hate to hear that Now it’s today. These are Giselle’s toes one the beach. What a super beach. Great snorkelling and sun and view! That’s me snorkelling. Giselle took the next few photos. I was a bad girl. I snatched a slate pencil urchin off a rock (gently) and brought it up for Giselle to photo. She’s holding it upside down, but it’s sure big and beautiful. And orange! And now I’m looking for more things to see. I did see 3 turtles!’ Yay! We swam and followed them from a distance. IT WAS SO AWESOME!!
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So here is the pile of photos without edits. Mostly Giselle took them. She takes such cool shots Snorkeling is my favourite thing of all time ... next to horses. Ha ha. The below two photos are of a special type of sea urchin. I think it’s called a helmet urchin. First pic is upside right. Next pick is upside down. Yes I put it back safe n sound. I felt bad for freakin it out. A cowrie. A type of sea snail. The snail is still inside. This is a hug one! I saw 3 other little ones the next day, but they were only the size of my thumbnail. It was smooth as glass by the way. And so beautiful. This is the skinny entrance to a cute little beach. I bought G and me a fresh coconut. We drank the water. Quack quack - I have my pink flippers on.
There are feral chickens everywhere. Here is a mama and here chickies. And also a lot of feral snowmen who escaped winter to join us on Maui! Notice that Clint stays well back so as not to frighten the skittish thing. Ha ha ha. There is a sea turtle under the water in center if photo. Under the rock overhang. They are hard to photograph. I love the hibiscus flowers. Ugly shot of a pretty flower. I should have cropped it... but am in a hurry to post this and get out for my walk. Just a selfie. Proving I’m really here. A path down to a favourite viewpoint. An experimental shot using reflection. I learned this technique on Facebook of all places! The shot turned out nice. I like this shot better because of the honey in it! Ha ha. And we stumbled upon another snowman. He’s posing in front of the sunset. He’s obviously eating well here. And here is the sunset. Mr. Snowman is sure enjoying it. The pic below is not just the sunset. There is a whale breaching under the clouds in right side. It is that black speck. Really really. You could see them quite a bit more clearly than this photo shows. I think it was just one whale but it breached and jumped every couple minutes starting at left and all the way across the bay. It was rather special!! ... and that’s another day in Maui!
Read below for explanation - but here are the final 2 photos. This is the last knot. I untangled from 2 ends at once - sort of alternating. That’s why there are 2 balls. Aaaaah. Suweet satisfaction. All done. One big ball of craft yarn. Lol.
breakfast of champions: Poke. (Pronounced pokay). Is chopped tuna with sushi sauces premixed in. I wrap it it a corn tortilla and put some sushi seaweed salad too. Omg it’s one of my favourite things ev-er!!! That round rock is a sea turtle! Look closely. It was sunning. A pretty hibiscus flower. Just a selfie. I might not look happy, but I’m in heaven! Oh and by the way, my necklace is made of real shells. It’s from my mamma many many years ago! oh yeah...! Breakfast number 2: papaya with yogurt and granola. Oh yum yum yum. chillin on Big Beach. Small surf today - but the everpresent cloud. Not cloudy anywhere else - just there. The (dormant) volcano is behind us but it’s high enough to make clouds. And a Maui sunset. Haven’t seen one for about 5 years! ok. Here’s a story. I found this nasty knotted up ball of yarn at school. I felt very OCD about fixing it. I thought it would be a perfect meditative and restful way to decompress. Here is about 1/3 of the way done. Next is the LAST knot. Then look look LOOK. I did it. Ha ha ha. It took about 2 hrs. I’m so weird! Only one knot left. That funny figure 8 knot it what it all came down to after I unravelled and pushed those 2 yarn balls through and over and under. Tracing the routes to untangle. I had found the 2 ends of the yarn and it seemed to work a little quicker if I worked both ends simultaneously- which is why you saw 2 balls in prev pix. At very end, I rolled them into one large ball. Ta-daaa!! Bwa -ha ha.
That’s Maui down there! yay! A fish taco from Coconuts’. There are apparently 47 ingredients! And ofcoirse a sunset. Not even a nice one by Maui standards - but warm and lovely nonetheless. Wish you were here!!
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