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I love taking pictures to share with people. That’s become pretty easy out here because there are so many beautiful things to take pictures of! Every time I turn around there’s another flower or bird or mountain view that I want to share with friends and family back home! I will try not to flood my blog with those kinds of pictures, but I wanted to share this stereotypical hibiscus flower with you!
Sailing Trip
So every Sunday, there is a group of people that Joe knows and I am beginning to become more and more familiar with that go sailing. The primary owner of the boat is Tommy and his co-owner is Jack. They are both older gentlemen with lots of sea-time experience. They like taking groups of people of all ages out and sail up and down the Western coast of the Big Island from about 1-4pm. I’ve ridden on the boat before, but the last time I had Bonine. Bonine is a great drug for motion sickness, and is like a non-drowsy, more effective version of Dramomine. This time I decided to be ‘brave’ and see if I really needed the Bonine to be on the boat, or if I could get away with just wearing sea bands. (sea bands are elastic wrist bracelets that have a rounded button that press a pressure point on your wrist to relieve nausea) It turns out that Bonine and I are bound to have a long lasting friendship on this island…
Joe was very sweet and sat next to me for just about the entire sailing trip and reminded me to put more sunscreen on. Here we are sitting on the edge of the sail boat and dangling our feet into the water, which helped me feel better. He had a lot of very helpful suggestions, like watching the island instead of the moving boat or water and stopping to swim. Swimming was a lot of fun and refreshing, but did little to relieve my sea sickness unfortunately.
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We did get to see a pod of dolphins that followed us around for a while! That was pretty cool! They were much smaller that I had imagined.
Super Moon
After we got done sailing, Joe and I went to one of our favorite beaches to sit in a hammock and catch the last hour or so of sunshine. The tide has been very high lately due to a phenomenon called Super Moon. This makes the tides a bit higher than normal. The next super moon is in June and it is supposed to cause even higher tides.
I also got a pretty awesome picture of the sunset….
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on June 27, 2013