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Published: April 10th 2023
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Quite a few days of activity! Lucky we have our grassy turtle view point to return to for relaxation and drinks!
I was generous in my activity planning yesterday and allowed for a lazy morning of pancakes. Maybe it was just to fortify everyone for the terror that awaited - zip lining! A quick drive and check in before we were all kitted up and ready for our first line.
Some important lessons in physics - fat people go faster, so Beeb ate our dust…didn’t mean we couldn’t hear her the whole time! Three relatively tame, but still exhilarating lines, while we were hanging vertically before we drove up the mountain to tackle the beast. Apparently it’s over 4000ft in the old measure…which would seem to me well over 1km in the new.
The distance doesn’t seem to important when they make you climb a tower which is clearly eleventy billion feet in the air and then they tell you to hold onto the railing and lean forward while they lift up your feet. Not even if I had 4000 of them my friend, it’s a no from me.
And then apparently it’s not. You watch your
child being subjected to the same torture and remind yourself again that you paid for this, and then, before you know it, you’re soaring like a bird towards the other end! It was amazing…even the slowest and lightest of us reluctantly agreed, even though death was almost guaranteed.
Celebrated our survival with a life-affirming trip to Walmart to pick up some supplies and re-calibrate Beeb’s idea of a ‘nice’ shirt for a dinner out. Back to our condo, a quick snorkel before some drinks on the grass, some turtle antics and a wedding to keep us entertained.
An early start, so lucky we had the spoils of the Easter bunny to get us out of bed! A leisurely drive west to meet our guide for the day before jumping on our zodiac for a fast and bumpy ride up the Napali Coast. We were 10 minutes out of the harbour and we’d already seen a small pod of bottle nose dolphins fishing, a huge pod of spinner dolphins and a whale, so things were looking good. The sun was out and the wind wasn’t too bad and we held on for dear life as we careened towards the
scenic coast.
A few stops in sea caves, some waterfalls and absolutely stunning scenery before we made a stop for some snorkelling. Heaps of fish and a couple of turtles to hang with before we were back on the boat and headed home. Not before another quick dolphin encounter.
Back to Koloa for some lunch before heading back home. Not content with the two turtles we’d already snorkelled with today, we were determined to swim with the ones we’d seen flapping about outside our condo. Patience paid off, and we were able to swim alongside three as they went about their business in ‘turtle alley’.
Thoroughly waterlogged and crisped by the sun and wind, we retreated home for some much-needed relaxation time followed by our now-customary turtle antics drinks. No weddings or proposals tonight though!
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