College Days

Getting it done!! Staying up to late...

UPDATE:: I have set a defense date of April 12...getting it done!!

MF Salmon hula hottie

That's my girl!!!!

My Dad, the awesome fisherman

A Tightloop

My Dad and his record 20" small mouth bass are featured in the above magazine's January 2012 issue.  Scroll to the Small mouth article by Paul Melchior and you can see a picture of my dad casting (second page) and one of my dad with his record smallie (sixth page).  Way to go Daddie-O!!

Monday.Jan 9

 …depart SeaTAc 630, Portland then KOA at 12:15.  Long day of travel, pick up rental car, do a little food shopping at Safeway, head North to Spencer Beach State Park.  Pitch tent, chilled on the beach, collecting thoughts over the long travel from cold Pacific Northwest to warm Pacific Islands.  Sand in my feet.  The ocean water is warm.  What lies ahead of us on this trip?

We meet up with the Bruno family, friends of Todd’s from the Humbolt days and Alaska.  Dinner at camp. 

  Noisy French Canadians snuck in at night, they were smoking up a storm and talking loudly.  Luckily it was soothing French words.

Tuesday, Jan 9.

Hapuna Bay public access area for a swim.  Crashing waves and I am wearing the bikini, what a mistake. 

   

After beach time, Todd napped while I visited the National Monument near Spencer.  What an interesting and good site on the history of Hamakeahah.  

Nearby in the cove, which was a location of a small village, sharks swam about.  Typically the bay gets Black-tip sharks but the fins we saw were not black tipped and according to the rangers at the National Park, they were much larger than typically observed.  If the water was clear, we would be able to see the sharks better, but this location has a sub-surface creek flowing into it with lots of silt which makes the water black.  A bit strange considering the beautiful blue waters everywhere else here.

Before dinner we visited petroglyphs:

For dinner we joined the Bruno family at Roy’s.  Returned to cards at the camp table, cribbage.

Wed Jan 12 part two

After snorkeling, we checked out the national park.

Wednesday Jan 11

Today we left camp early to head to Captain Cook Memorial for kayaking and snorkeling:

After snorkeling we walked about the park and saw some neat lava and water features:

 looks like elephant skin.