Last of Hawaii...or not

Well there's not too much more to write. We spent the rest of our time in Hawaii lazing around in our various beach house rentals, surfing, and snorkeling. I got marginally better at surfing, or at least got used to standing up, falling over, and hitting everyone with my board. And, as everyone noticed, I got lots more tan. We got to know all our local turtles; our favorite was an old dude with a big growth on his eye who we called the Cyborg. We were pretty mad when a white tipped reef shark came and took over the Cyborg's napping spot, but white tipped reef sharks are tame little guys and we didn't have the heart to chase it away with the spear!

Some friends visited and helped keep us entertained. Sam finally did manage to catch some squid which is what they call octupus in Hawaii, since they don't have squids and "squid" is shorter. Then Sam had to defend his catch from the reef shark and ended up climbing up on the reef to get back to the beach. Sam's cousin speared a few Nemos and we cooked those up too. Ok, not really Nemos, I promise! But we decided to go back to the mainland since we'd depleted our little fishing pool sized favorite reef. That and we missed all our little nieces and nephews who were getting bigger and bigger while we were gone!

So pretty soon we were off home to California. But we are planning on going back to Hawaii ASAP! So everybody come visit us!