Perfect Fall Day!

This photo should be on a post card, and it was just this perfect!  Scattered clouds with wispy clouds mixed in and laying atop Haleakala, and glassy conditions, just the way I like it.  I didn’t get out until almost 9 a.m…..which was really late, but it looked so perfect I couldn’t wait to paddle.  At Kam III, I saw my first turtle, then down at the boat ramp I visited with three more turtles.  It was so perfect I was afraid it might not stay that way and wondered if I should paddle back…. but then the turtle show began! Before I knew it I had counted twelve turtles in all.  Three of them hung around me for quite a while and then all three dove down and I could see them swimming around under my board!  It was really neat.  It was pushing it, staying down there for so long, but it was so perfect.  A paddling friend and her sister came by and she said, “Hey, looks like you’re in the middle of a turtle party!” and then she told me they didn’t want to disturb my party, so they paddled on.  Finally one by one, the turtles disappeared and so I paddled home.  The wind never came up!  It stayed equally perfect while I swam and the water was so clear.  I love days like this….. what a perfect Fall day!