It was a beautiful morning, but the wind was already blowing from the north/west.  I decided to paddle anyway.  I headed into the wind and when I made my turn south, I was surprised by a large turtle!  I stopped paddling and sat down on my board and the turtle hung around, popping its head up a couple of times and diving under my board.  This went on for quite awhile and then it dove down and disappeared.  I headed towards the boat ramp, but I was wondering about the wind.  I decided to go for it and paddled all the way there.  When I arrived, I was the only paddler out there and I didn’t see a single turtle.  I just sat on my board enjoying the sights, until suddenly two large turtles surfaced!  Then three more surfaced and then four more surfaced.  Before I knew it, I had counted 19 turtles there and I quit counting!  I was surrounded and loving it, until two other paddlers saw all the turtles and quickly paddled over.  The guy said, “Hey you have a good spot!”…. and then one by one, the turtles disappeared.  I was so bummed!  I paddled away from the other two paddlers and figured that my turtle day was over, but suddenly up popped three turtles; one in front, one on my right and the other one on my left!  I was thrilled to be surrounded again.  I decided I should start paddling back, but before I knew it, four more turtles had surfaced around me!  I was so excited I forgot about the wind.  Then out from Kam III, one more large turtle surfaced right in front of me!  It was headed in the opposite direction, so I paddled on.  Finally the wind had picked up and it was a choppy trip paddling back, but it was so worth it!  I had counted over 20 turtles!  Then, during my swim, a big turtle swam past me and a good-sized Ulua swam around by me for ten minutes.  It ended up being quite a day!