I'm just hanging out on our deck waiting for my wifey to take a quick shower before we head out on a hike to the north shore. As Sarah mentioned, I went diving with Seasport Divers yesterday and I have to say they are a great operation! I think I lucked out a bit in that the trip only had 4 divers, so we had plenty of room on the boat and the dive sites were not that crowded.
The first dive was a drift starting at Turtle Bluff and ending up at the Fish Bowl. Visibility was decent I would say around ~75 feet and water temp was around ~75 F and my max depth was 75 ft. I was a bit rusty at the beginning of the dive but got right back into the flow about 5 minutes into the dive. Saw a few small white tip sharks sleeping under an overhang, good thing Sarah wasn't there or she would have freaked!! I Swam by a turtle cleaning station which was very cool to see and as a whole just explored and relaxed.
So after we were all back in the boat we headed back east past Poipo Beach toward Sherdan Caverns. On the way we motored by the beach where Jurassic park was filmed and the famous Fantasy Island beach "The Plane, The Plane!". However the coolest part was a school of dolphins that decided to play with us just off the coast here. The captain stoped the boat and all of the divers jumped into our snorkel gear and slipped into the water being sure to not make big splashes and scare off the dolphins. The school (not sure if this the right word for a group of dolphins) including a little baby dolphin swam around us and under us checking us out before heading on up the coast.
The second dive was Sherdan Cavern's which are a bunch of old lava tubes that have collapsed and that turtles use to hang out and sleep in. This site had great visibility, I would say around ~80 -90 feet with a max depth of around 60 feet. If you want to see turtles this is w/o a doubt the place to go. I must have seen around 20-30 of them on this dive alone. There are some cool little swim throughs and lots of little cracks to explore. Of the two dives this was definitely my favorite. We even heard the dolphins off in the distance but they never came close enough for us to see them.
So after the diving I headed home to my wife and we packed up and decided to do a relaxing afternoon down at the pool. We both got plenty of sun while doing plenty of reading and relaxing. That evening we went out to "Old Koloa," did a little trinket shopping and relaxing before heading home and calling it a night. Well I think my wife is just about ready so we are off to explore the north shore! Stay tuned for the next update!
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