This is Friday and we set off about 9 am to find some different beaches for snorkeling.  Turning our rental car south, the Wagnersons made it about ten or fifteen miles before we had to stop for breakfast nourishment at the Coffee Shack.  Thanks to Kathy Anderson for this breakfast recommendation.  Our meal was excellent and we were soon headed off with new zeal for Pu’ uhonua o Honaunau, a national park and a Place of Refuge, with reported excellent snorkeling north of the park.  It did not disappoint.

Making our way out into the crystal aqua blue water, we were again inundated with beautiful tropical fish and majestic coral formations.  As I headed farther away from shore, I soon came across 15-20 dolphins swimming underneath me.  Dragging my camera out of the pocket of my swimming suit, I began shooting pictures as they darted and turned below me.

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It was so cool.  That went on for several minutes and Doug and I headed back to shore to check on Barb and Lynda.  http://youtu.be/eP4ob_wekVw

Barb and Doug headed out into the water while Lynda and I watched the dolphins from shore.  These were spinner dolphins and there were babies who would fly straight up out of the water about five feet in the air and then tumble around through the air and splash back down under the water.  They were putting on quite a show.  Lynda was anxious to get back out and get an opportunity to swim with the dolphins again.  She and I went back out and before you knew it, there were dolphins all around us. Lynda was leading the way back to her dolphins.

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I tried to get a video shot of the dolphins with Lynda in the foreground (If you notice in the video I turn the camera to make a longer picture to get both the dolphins and Lynda who was right next to them in the frame…..it didn’t work and only makes the video confusing) but it is what it is…….Amazing!!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBbYXofM5FU

I have been asked by my traveling companions to come up with a different descriptive word.  Kona has been almost magical.  Incredible, awesome, unbelievable are all possible replacements but……..sorry, Amazing works the best!

Since she asked us about it, tomorrow we plan to return to the local neighborhood park to get pictures for Rubi of a “Humuhumu Nukunuku A pua a” a lagoon trigger fish.  We’ll do our best Rubi!!