I was up WAY early this morning because the clock in the Master Bedroom here at Hale Honu was one hour and 43 minutes fast...so I was convinced dawn was moments away when I awoke around 4 a.m.  I finally got out of bed at around 5:15 having figured out that I wasn't going back to sleep.

It turned out okay though.  I puttered a bit figuring out my to-do list for the girl's work week.  Then I settled into writing and was already 800 words in by the time Lynne made it downstairs.  Shari came down around 7:00 and I continued pecking away at the keyboard until the end of the chapter. 

It was interesting to write about Lenn's experience of the angst, confusion and fear that comes after one's country is attacked.  I filtered in some of what I felt on 9/11 and some of what I've read about the reactions to Pearl Harbor (and in particular to Japanese Americans before the internment order).  I'm not sure I've got it just right yet but Nanowrimo is about getting words on the page now and editing later, so that's my modus operandi.

(And I'm sticking to it!)

After a quick bite, Lynne and I headed down to Kahalu'u and snorkeled for about an hour.  With a 10 minute walk each way and the work that's yet to come, I figure that's my workout for the day.  We saw 15 honu (including an adorable baby honu, tang, tons of parrotfish, a yellow trumpet fish, wrasse of many types, butterfly fish, sea cucumbers, a bunch of surgeonfish and some gorgeous parrotfish.  The bay was calm, tide was relatively low, and there were very few people in the water so we had a great snorkel even though Lynne's mask kept leaking (I fixed that) and fogging up (no help there). 

The water was pretty cold in spots (mid-60's) and then we would swim through some thermals that warmed us back up.  The honu seemed to prefer the warm spots too.  Maybe that's why we saw so many in groups of two or three.  I was laughing at one point because we literally were running into honu every time we turned around.

So now it's lazing for a bit followed by stocking up on cleaning supplies.  That's your report from the Big Island for Tuesday, November 6th.  Aloha!

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