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Almost amazingly, until yesterday, I had never swam at Honolua Bay. I’ve driven past it a ton of times, but never snorkeled there. The last time Corinne visited (about two weeks ago), she came back telling me about seeing some squid — which got me REALLY excited (I love cephalopods). I was really worried that [...]

Corinne wanted a whale watch trip for her birthday. How could I deny that – especially when I get to go with her! One thing she really wanted to see was a spy hop. Unfortunately, as it pertains to humpbacks and especially during their time in the Hawaiian islands, spyhopping is a fairly uncommon activity. [...]

Went to take a shower today and I was surprised (not startled) to see a rather large gecko chilling on the wall of the shower. For what it’s worth, I rotated the image 90 degrees. The gecko was hanging on the wall head-down. I think the original pose (vertical) detracted from the shot, so I [...]

Since moving, we’ve been a one-car household. For the most part, this hasn’t been a real problem since I work from home and Corinne will use the car to get to work as needed. There are three issues though. The first is that if the jeep has a problem and ends up in the garage, [...]

Without any family on the islands, the routine we had fallen into for spending our holidays is gone. This year, I decided that it’d be fun to go out on a whale watch since Pacific Whale Foundation was running them still on Christmas. It’s still fairly early in the whale season here, but there are [...]

Instead of spending hours and hours in stupid lines to fight stupid people for stupid things that we don’t really need anyway, we set out to see if we could spot any whales from shore today. While it’s still a bit early in the season for regular shore sightings, the whales are in the area [...]

Went out to snap some sunset pics yesterday. I decided to head south and ended up pretty much as far south you can go without looping around the other side of the island and traverse Hana. Here’s a shot with the sun setting behind Kaho’olawe from the beautiful standpoint of La Perouse Bay.

I woke up yesterday and it was windy. Really windy. Generally speaking, this is a bit odd. We have a rather predictable cycle where it’s calm in the morning, the wind picks up in the late morning / early afternoon for a few hours and then dies back down again. Plus, I get up early [...]

I can’t believe we’re already more than half way through September. That brings my time in Hawaii thus far to 4.5 months. It simultaneously feels like no time at all and something approaching forever. Before I know it, it’s going to be 2012. I know a lot of people that say that they’d miss the [...]

I’ve been taking video while snorkeling for a little while since I got my GoPro HD Hero. I decided to start actually processing it and put together this compilation of green sea turtles. It’s “long” (around 10m), but I’ve happily watched it a few times. As I start taking more video, I’m sure I’ll be [...]