After all the excitement of yesterday, my arm has been hurting.  When I paddled with the whales, I am sure I over worked it and it hurt.  Now paddling with the dolphins yesterday, I definitely over worked it!  So today I needed to take it a bit easier, but the wind didn’t see it that way.  A Kona wind was blowing out of the south and it made it harder to paddle to the boat ramp.  On my way down, I stopped to check out something dark under the water.  It was pretty far down so I couldn’t quite make it out but it looked like a ray swimming near the bottom.  Two tourists on rented boards yelled over to me to ask what I was looking at, so I told them it was something dark but I wasn’t sure what it was.  One of them had fallen off his board and the minute I said that, he scrambled back on his board!  Then I ran into a paddling friend and she had just seen a couple of turtles down by Kam I. We paddled towards the boat ramp, but the wind had picked up and it seemed like it took us forever to get there!  The ocean got choppy too, so I wasn’t sure how long we could hang out.  As we passed Kam III, I spotted a turtle and paddled out to it. It stayed on the surface for a few minutes and then dove down and disappeared.  We continued to the boat ramp in choppy conditions.  It was hard to sit on my board to wait for turtles, because every time I did, the wind turned me completely around and it was pushing us towards the rocks.  Suddenly the pontoon tour boat roared in to drop off its snorkelers and we ran into another paddling friend who had just come out.  We all agreed that it was too choppy to hang around!  All three of us started paddling north.  One of my friends spotted a turtle in front of Kam III and then I spotted a turtle out from Kam III!  I paddled out to it despite the wind, but it didn’t stick around.  The wind pushed us north and I couldn’t believe how fast we got back!  In closer, the wind was not as strong, so I got in a nice swim.  I was swimming towards the rocks and reef, when suddenly a large Ulua fish swam right past me!  They are such a pretty shiny silver color outlined in a light purple and I don’t see them very often, so that was a treat.  My arm hurt the most swimming (so go figure), but all in all, it was a good workout day!  I wonder what tomorrow will be like?  I never know…. it’s always a different adventure every day!