Perfect day!

It was another picture perfect morning on Maui!  There were just a few scattered clouds and a slight northerly breeze and the ocean was calm.  I paddled down to the boat ramp and several paddlers and a kayaker were moving out of the area.  It was so perfect and nice!  I sat on my board and just enjoyed the scenery.  Suddenly I spotted two turtles surfacing beyond me, so I hurried and paddled over to them.  I sat with them while they floated on the surface of the water and they occasionally popped their heads up to look at me.  They were too close together for me to squeeze in-between them, but eventually they drifted apart and I ended up between them!  Then I spotted a third turtle out farther so I paddled out to it.  It was a big turtle, and it was also not in a hurry to swim away.  It floated on the surface for a while and then dove down and swam under my board.  I just watched it swim around because the water was so clear!  I was about to paddle back, when a small turtle popped its head up closer to shore.  I paddled over to it, but it didn’t stick around.  Three friendly turtles made my day anyway!  I paddled back in the same perfect conditions, stopping briefly out in the “quiet zone” to sit for a bit, before heading in.  The conditions stayed nice through my swim and the highlight swimming today was finding myself in the middle of a school of fish!  There were at least fifty of them swimming back and forth,  so I hung with them for a while!  I don’t know what kind of fish they were but they were shiny silver and had a light violet trim on their body.  I never know what adventure I will have each day…… every day is different!