Another beautiful morning for paddling on maui!  As I was starting out on my paddling workout, I heard a big splash….I looked over my left shoulder and a novice paddler had hit the water.  Then another big splash and this time over my right shoulder, I saw another novice paddler hit the water!  A lot of people were out today trying out stand up paddling for the first time.  I don’t miss the days of falling off  “until you get the hang of it”.

As  I continued on my paddle, I saw a turtle just off of Kam III, so I did what I usually do, I stopped paddling and got down on my board to watch it.  It popped it’s head up a couple of times to look at me and then suddenly I realized the turtle was swimming over to me!  It became clear to me that it was either going to run into my board or end up on my board with me!  Just before it hit,  the turtle quickly dove under my board and swam away!  I had a good laugh and continued on.  The water was so clear I enjoyed seeing all the rocks and coral just looking at it from on my board.  Then another turtle appeared, but this one had no interest in me and it dove down and was gone.