Sunday, October 28, 2007

Hawaiian Day Off

Yesterday, saturday, was our day off, we had a lot of fun. played some beach olympics, snorkeled with colourfull fish, and swam with sea turtles and a big tiger shark. for real, well, kind of.

So we went to this one beach called "Turtle Beach" when we arrived we saw this sign. we asked around about what kind of shark it was and how long ago it was last seen. Apparently it was a 12-15" tiger shark that was not much more 100' of the shore. The Tiger Sharks main sustenance is Sea Turtles. The Tiger shark is one of the only animals that is strong enough to break the shell of a sea turtle. Local authorities were so concerned about this Tiger Shark being so close to shore that they called in a police helicopter to monitor it. About 2 hours after all of that was when we showed up. What did we do? We went swimming. This is one of the only beaches where you can actually go snorkeling with Sea Turtles. Ryan was the only one of us who swam with a turtle, and none of us got eaten by a shark.


Here are a few shots from our beach olympics! Ryan won the long jump event

The beach olympics took place on our beach at the military base we had a great time.

see you tomorrow courts!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i love the first surfer pic. the yellow haze.. awesome. i'd love to join the olympics when i come around.. maybe take on the long jump champ and show him a few.
the first few remind me of...
"how did he get away?"
"sea turtles"
"sea turtles?"
"aye, sea turtles" p.o.t.c.

that was wierd. anyways, i can't wait to play in the waves!!
in the words of Sawyer.. see yah freckles .. ;)

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