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While yesterday was a blustery, choppy day…..today was very nice!  There was a north breeze, which was good because it was slowly blowing all the VOG out to sea.  I could finally see Lanai, Molokini, Kahoolawe, and the West Maui mountains today!  I paddled directly down to the boat ramp.  The breeze was nice but I wasn’t sure if it was going to stay just a breeze or turn into a wind.  I spotted my first two turtles just as I was paddling into the boat ramp area, so I paddled to them.  A paddling friend who was paddling out of the area, yelled at me that there were two turtles behind me too!  I was surrounded!  It was a great turtle day and I only had one snorkeler to compete with, and he ended up being really nice.  He got to see lots of turtles hanging out by me and he kept me posted on the ones that were under my board!  There were several turtle triangles and at one point, I had four turtles all around me and the snorkeler yelled that I had two more behind me again!  Yup….surrounded again!  I told the snorkeler how much I love just sitting in the middle of all the turtles, so he said he was going to leave me in my “reverence”!  He swam away from me and I realized that there had been at least twenty turtles today!  The conditions were still nice so I decided to paddle back.  Only the breeze had become a little stronger…almost a wind….and I got a good workout paddling against it!  I ran into two more turtles outside of Kam III too!  I got back and the day was still very nice and my swim was great too.  It ended up being a good day with lots of turtles and very little VOG!!!!!!  Maybe the VOG will be completely blown away by tomorrow if the north winds continue….just maybe!