Hawaii - A Shallow Snorkel, Coco Jungle, and Sunset Strumming (08 JAN 2009)

Tides and snorkeling can be a tricky thing. The place we're working on has a fairly shallow reef as it is, which means it can only be snorkeled at a reasonably high tide. The million dollar question is: how high a tide is high enough? The tide table can't answer such detail - ya' gotta go to find out. So we went. Too low for comfort (ours and the reef's), plus the trades were getting busy, so we made it brief and will try again later and only in the morning before the trades pick up...yup, tricky stuff..:)

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On the return, we saw a sign for Coco plants and Green Coconuts. Always hard to pass up, so we took a little detour into the Coco Jungle in search of this beverage. No luck on the nutty potion, so we did a little talk about Windward vs. leeward instead:



On this evening, we went to a special place to hear a new Hawaiian friend and his band. The sunset on this evening was absolutely sick (read: gorgeous!). Check it out:

'Hawaiian Winter Sunset by the Shore':



And a 20-second mini-movie of our 4 favorite photos from this evening's sunset:



Finally, more music and a word about the 'grassroots research' involved in TATC trip designs:



A hui hou!
Tetefano and Kamila