Seals

The seals have been so funny lately- Saturday we had an official seal count day- I was stationed at Sunset Beach for my shift- and there was not a seal to be seen....the whole time we were there- hours...

Sunday, I receive a call in the morning that there is a seal now sitting in the middle of Sunset beach-( this beach tends to be populated with people, many of them tourists ) so I brought my friend out with me, and we stayed with the seal, until a nasty, unleashed dog, ran into the roped off area, and the seal on the beach barked loudly at the dog. The dog did not want to leave the seal alone, no matter all the coaxing my friend and I did. Finally, the seal had enough of the dog, and she went back into the water. It is too bad that this dog was not with an owner, and harrassed the resting seal.

Waves coming in....

Yesterday it was cloudy most of the day and the waves were just wild...
getting wilder as winter approaches...the humidity was thick as evening approached, regardless of the little sunshine we had.

Shark

Many Fridays I spend with some girlfriends at a place we call " Secret Beach". It is a small cove of a place, where it is quiet and peaceful. We chat, snooze and often swim. Last Friday we were enjoying a lovely Friday afternoon at Secret Beach- we all went in the water, and enjoyed the clearness, & coolness of the water. We bobbed around for about an hour, about 10 feet from shore. We then all treked out of thewater and back to our beach chairs. We had not sat down more than 10 minutes, when a girl walking her dog came over to us, and told us a 6 foot tiger shark was near shore and tried to attack her dog. She was visabiily shaken. SO were we...

A shark in the and near the water we just in.. ? Crazy... Will I be swimming again there ? Still not sure.

Farmers Market

There are many Farmers Markets on the Island- we have a very small local one in Waialua, and a larger one in Halewia. Much of what is sold is hard to recognize...vegtables I have no idea what to do with...I ask the Phillipino women who sell them, and who I can hardly communicate with, and they say " cook it with chicken"...and they smile.

Molting Seals and Friends

I did my shift this week watching Irma as she molts....not super exciting, but still fun to be able to sit so close to a seal and keep a watchful eye on her. The excitement came when Irma's friend Kermit came by and wanted Irma to play- Irma was not feeling up to playing, but the two seals just hung out nose to nose- which was very sweet, them Kermit rolled himself back into the sea... the life of a seal.