Hi there!

The vog was thick this morning and the sun wasn’t shining…. So I wondered about paddling today.   I waited around and pretty soon I could see the sun starting to peek out.  I hurried to put my sunscreen on jammed down to the beach!  When I got there, the wind seemed to coming up and it was blowing from the north.  Then I figured out why the sun was starting to come out……the wind was blowing the vog!  I decided to paddle north into the wind and when I got just outside Cove Park….. I spotted a turtle ahead of me.  I paddled to it and three more turtles surfaced so I was surrounded by four turtles!  I took that as my cue to just stay put and enjoy the turtles!  One by one, the turtles disappeared and so I turned and paddled south with the wind at my back.  I paddled down past Kam II and then turned and paddled against the wind back to Kam I.   It was windy but it never got blown out.  Just as I was heading out for my swim…. The wind backed off and it got really nice!  It was a smooth swim but the visibility in the water wasn’t very good so I stopped short of the reef and swam back.  The wind stayed out and there was barely a breeze blowing when I left.   I would be happy to see the vog dissipate!   Maybe tomorrow……