Nice day!

It was another really nice day on Maui today.  Not quite a spectacular as yesterday, but still very nice.  The ocean wasn’t glassy like yesterday either, which made me wonder if the wind was going to come up soon, but I wanted to paddle down to the boat ramp anyway.  I started out and ran across a big turtle right outside of Kam I!  I stopped to sit for a minute and just watched the turtle swimming around until it headed out to sea.  The skies were mostly sunny today and temperature mild and very comfortable.  When I got to the boat ramp, a turtle was waiting for me, but it didn’t hang around very long.  The conditions got very glassy suddenly and it was much easier to spot the turtles.  I had counted up to nine turtles……. when suddenly I was surrounded by five turtles all at once!  It was just me and all those turtles!  I decided to lay back on my board and just listen to them swimming around me.  That went on for a few minutes and then one by one, they disappeared.  Then I spotted a turtle out farther so I paddled out.  It was “Torpedo Head”!!!  I haven’t seen that turtle for a while and I just sat there while it shot its head out of the water and dove down several times while circling me!  Before I was done, I had counted seventeen turtles at the boat ramp plus the one at Kam I, which made a total of eighteen turtles for the day!  I paddled back in ripply conditions, but the wind still had not come in.  By the time I swam, the water was bumpy and the wind was coming in and out, but the visibility was still very good.  It wasn’t as nice as yesterday, but it was nice enough!!