It was a beautiful morning at the beach, but the wind seemed to be already coming in.  I was early for a change,  so I went out anyway.  I paddled north, in the direction of the wind and just as I turned to paddle south….the wind totally backed off!  The ocean was not calm, but at least the wind backed off for a while.  I took a chance and paddled down to the boat ramp.  I was the only one there  since the wind looked so unpredictable.  I also wondered  how long I could really stay down that far!  In fact, I couldn’t see a sign of a turtle anywhere, but I sat down on my board and uttered these words, “okay turtles, now where are you?”  As soon as the words slipped from my lips, I spotted turtle #1!  I paddled out to it and as soon as I got there, two more turtles surfaced on each side of me, surrounding me!  Then two more turtles popped up and then one more, so I had six turtles all around me!  Then two of them disappeared and the other four reconfigured themselves, which left me in front of four turtles all in a row!!!!  It was so funny to see them all lined up as if they were awaiting instructions.  Then another turtle surfaced closer to shore so I paddled over and another turtle surfaced on the other side of me and I was in-between them!  I was having such a great time with all the turtles, being surrounded a couple of more times and ending up in the middle of two turtles multiple times!  I am pretty sure I counted at least 2o turtles and I totally forgot about the wind that was looming. Suddenly three kayakers came out who were visitors with rented kayaks.  They paddled over to my turtle party and were overwhelmed!  I started to pay attention to the wind starting to kick up slightly and I left my turtles with the tourists.  I paddled back over wind swells from the wind that was blowing quite strong out farther, but when I passed Kam III, another turtle surfaced in front of me so I stopped to visit with it too.  Some of those wind generated swells were sizable and I was using some real skills to keep control as I rolled over them.  By the time I swam, the wind had backed off again.  I saw the same school of about fifty or so silver–blue fish again and swam back and for with them a few times before I headed down to the rocks and reefs.  There were quite a few fish down there too, but when I started to head back I could hear wind howling through my snorkel!  The wind had come in with a vengeance and I really worked to swim back against it.  The wind continued to gain strength until the sand was starting to blow on the beach.  That was my cue to go home!  It was a really windy day…..but I lucked out and got to see my turtles.  That is always a good day!