Hawaii - Day 5

Wednesday May 26, 2010

Today was the big day. We had purchased tickets to go on a snorkeling adventure with turtles, dolphins and other fish. I was so giddy with excitement.
We woke up at 5:30am to get ourselves together and be down at the marina for 6:15. The walk was only 5 minutes from the resort. We had a light breakfast and then had a briefing from the captain. We were then soon on our way.

On our way out to our first stop we saw a small pod of spinner dolphins. It was unreal seeing these wild dolphins in this crystal clear water.

Our first stop we swam with these HUGE sea turtles. No kidding they were huge and came so close. We were given some fish food and whenever I put some into the water I would be engulfed by fish. It was amazing.

Our second stop was near Electric Beach where we had been the day before. There was a place of some serious tropical fish and even a shark.

Our last stop was an attempt to swim with the wild spinner dolphins. The pod was a lot smaller than normal and very young. They easily got scared and swam away quickly but I did get into the water quick enough to see them dive and swim away. The rest of the trip we watched them from the boat. They were very playful and put on a show for us.

Back to the marina we then had lunch. After that we all took a nice long needed nap.

Then off to Waikiki for the evening. Stuck in traffic for a long time we missed the sunset :( But we had a romantic dinner at Dukes right on Waikiki beach. Romantic + Beautiful is a perfect way to spend our last night.