We had a bit of a slow start to our day today. After the Manta Ray swim last night we were late to bed so while we were still up before 7am we weren’t fast and hadn’t decided where we were going to go for today’s swim.
Quentin decided on Kahalu’u Beach Park which was about 50 minutes south. Our snorkelling book told us to get there early in the morning or late in the afternoon as it is a very popular spot. Popular because it has quite shallow access, so is really easy for all levels of snorkelling.
When we got there around 10.45am we had to wait a couple of minutes for a park, and once we got one headed to the beach. There was people snorkelling everywhere, a few people on paddle boards, it was like peak hour traffic!
Once we got ourselves ready we hit the water, gingerly picking our way between all the bodies. As much as it was busy it was actually a great spot for seeing lots of different types of fish, lots of lovely colourful ones even another turtle, although this one didn’t want to stay and play.
Most of the people stayed in closer to shore so we headed a little further out, which wasn’t so busy. I did a fabulous job of pointing out all the interesting things to Quentin, funny little fish, colourful fish, interesting sea urchins, Christmas Tree worms. He just wouldn’t have got by with out me!
As we were heading back in we came across one of the beach lifeguards, she was paddling around on her board and warning people that there was a fish that was biting in a certain area, luckily we didn’t come across that fish.
From there we decided we would head for lunch, only problem was we couldn’t find where we were going on the GPS. Stupid GPS requires you to put in the city/town that it is in, and none of the ones I used from my Lonely Planet guide so we gave up and headed to Ultimate Burgers which we knew we could find, and I also knew had good write ups. The burgers were nice, as were the chips, I had their home made lemonade which was really yummy but caused my husband to pull a most unattractive face when he tried it, must have been too sour for him!
On the drive we came across a store called Donkey’s Balls which I had read about, so mandatory stop. They make all these yummy chocolate covered macadamia’s in ball from. Apparently the story is when the macadamias are ripe they fall of the trees, wild boars run to the orchards to eat the nuts and the farmers chase them off yelling “if I catch you your balls are mine”. When the farmer wins the harvest is usually followed by a barbie with …you guessed it….boars balls. Luckily the balls we got were much nicer, one lot were macadamias covered with white and milk chocolate with an orange flavour, yummy, and the others were milk chocolate with toffee bits, also yummy. Mmm…we may be passing that store again tomorrow!
Home and a little rest before we headed off for the 1.4 mile walk around the petroglyph trail that is here within the resort. Even though we didn’t go until after 5pm it was still very hot on the walk! It was just up the road from where we are staying at Beach Park. After the walk we headed down to the beach to have a look and came across all these cats. There are quite a lot of feral cats around the place, in fact over a dozen lying on the warm concrete on the walk up to the beach. They aren’t aggressive at all, and seem in very good condition but we have stopped ourselves from patting them no matter how lovely they look. Oh and if you are wondering Sunny is doing fine at her hotel and Maureen tells me she is a real character and they love her to bits.
A lovely dinner of steak and kale chips. I had got some kale at the farmers market on Saturday as I had heard that kale chips were really good for you and very yummy. They were very tasty. Then dessert was donkey balls.
On our drive along the highway there are signs that tell you to be careful of the donkeys, so far we are yet to see any donkey’s but have seen plenty of wild goats along the road side, so not sure if they are just confused about what a donkey looks like or what!