Beach Day

Saturday was an idyllic day at the beach and it deserves to be immortalized on the internet. So, here goes…

Kara and I wanted to hang out at the Beach on Saturday, so we called up some friends that morning and arranged to meet them at Kamaole II Beach around 12:30 or so. Kara and I got there first and laid claim to a parcel of golden sand. Once Marc arrived, Kara, Marc, and I jumped in the ocean and played around a bit. The water was clearer than usual and the waves were pretty small, so we just waded around and splashed each other. After a while we headed back to shore to dry off and warm up in the sun.

Shortly after, Russell showed up and we (he and I) went back into the ocean to play frisbee in waist-deep water. We started purposely making bad throws so that we’d have to dive for it since the water landing was so soft. While Russell and I were out there, James and Maria showed up and joined us. I got Kara and Marc to come back out and we all played keep-away with the frisbee for quite some time. Every once in a while a set of big waves would roll in, at which point someone would yell “WAVE” and the game would stop while some of us would body surf the waves in to shore.

While we were playing the game, someone noticed that whales were breaching pretty close (maybe 200 yards?) from where we were. The game halted while we all stood there and watched the whales. We saw the most spectacular breach when a whale shot straight up WAY out of the water and then crashed back down into the ocean. It was the biggest, closest breach any of us had seen and we were all amazed. Russell and I started jumping out of the water and smashing down like the whales when I noticed something awesome. When my head was under the water, I could hear the whales singing loud and clear! I told everyone, and then we all dunked our heads under and listened to the squealing and clicking for a while.

After that we swam back in and sat on the beach just chatting and playing in the sand until we decided to leave. What a day!