Salmagundi
Friday, 23 August 2019
Glow before full sun.
Effect of full sun.
This brought happy memories.
This brought none…because: no pool. Heh. Reasonably clever name, though.
Musings
OTP™ adventure, heels up
Tuesday, 20 August 2019
We went up in the mountains.
To a lake.
Where D and I did some snorkeling! It was cool and lovely and beautiful. And fun.
We also enjoyed a picnic before looping through over another ridge before returning to Inside the Perimeter™.
Short sentences, just ’cause
Monday, 19 August 2019
Days are getting shorter. Sigh.
Caught my eye. Even though the sun wasn’t quite up yet.
Ah, there’s the sun. Time to head home.
Sunday drive
Sunday, 18 August 2019
The sun found me soon after I began the return leg of my walk. Hot and humid air, with dry, dry soil. [Using dishwater on the basil, BTW.]
We realized we had a bit of cabin fever (the hot-weather, summer kind), so we took off on a unplanned route west and north from The City. Don’t remember seeing this corner-Stacey before. Guess that’s one reason to take a Sunday drive.
Our loop was long enough that we needed a necessary break…right by the Visitor Center for the Kennesaw Mountain Civil War National Park of Parks. The entrance is disguised by vegetation (like this American beautybush) and a new (decorative) split-rail fence that a goat could push over in about thirty seconds. You can see both on your next visit. And cannons.
Revisit memory
Sunday, 11 August 2019
We found this cemetery-on-a-hill view of downtown Hoh-noh-loo-loo. That’s Diamond Head on the left horizon.
Temperature is higher here, although humidity is a teeny-tad lower. But you’d pretty much only notice if you had a measurement device. Your skin might not.
Check (check, etc.), but not pre-check
Sunday, 4 August 2019
Good morning, rainbow.
Good morning, ocean.
Good morning, fisherman. Best of luck.
Good morning, surfer and lighthouse.
Good morning, tunnels.
Good morning, working fishing boat. Hope you’re not tired, hahaha.
Hello, lei stands.
Aloha, loves.
Natural pair
Wednesday, 31 July 2019
We now know that periodic short sprinkles or perhaps “real” rain is typical. Multiple times a day.
This was our second rainbow of the morning. At 7:45am. There’s another sprinkle right now, maybe the third? so far…. Cycle of weather-life.
Water sport stories, mild
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
We snorkeled here in Shark’s Cove. Which lacks sharks. Thankfully. We poked around for about 1hr 15 mins, which for me was quite a while; I wasn’t exhausted when we quit, but I was ready. Much of that time was floating and looking down. By the time we headed in, the waves were kicking up just a tad, and I was glad to paddle assisted by the incoming tide.
We watched this dog placidly riding a surfboard for quite a while. “Quite a while” is the time it takes to do all the cleaning required when doing water sports in the ocean, or anything in/on the ocean. Thankfully, all the public parks on the ocean with parking that I have seen have flush toilets and fresh-water showers, so it’s not a struggle, but it does take time. Time to spot and watch a dog on a surfboard enjoying the same places we’d been snorkeling. Since I don’t have corrective lenses I can see shapes and colors, to some degree, so I get a sense of critters. Easiest are the green Hawaiian sea turtles. One even checked me out! I couldn’t keep 30 feet away (I think that’s the stat) like you’re supposed to, but I didn’t touch him/her (G forbid), and didn’t hang around at all, just slowly moved on. With a smile around my snorkel-mouthpiece. Yes, it can be done.
Continuing with the surfboard theme, here’s how you get home with one when you live near, but not on the beach.
Big adventure
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
Adventure clue number one. Salient points: 1) water view, no beach in sight; 2) not a drone shot.
Adventure clue number two.
Adventure clue number three. Salient point: the Guru and I did not do this.
Instead, the Guru and I snorkeled. Twice. Once at each dive spot. We saw sea urchins thirty feet below us, clear water (ahem, SALT water). Fish came far closer. We saw several Hawaiian green sea turtles, only from the boat. The boat is named Hapa, which means half; the lovely captain did not know why it is named that. He’s the fellow cleaning up after our trip. Note clouds on the jagged eroding crater rim; it’s raining there, ¿no?
Ocean views and infrastructure, usually together
Saturday, 27 July 2019
There’s the ocean; there’s the infrastructure (foreground).
Banana orchard. Wind farm infrastructure, far distance.
I relent. Ocean, no infrastructure.
No ocean; repurposed sugar mill/factory, now a mini-mall.
Dive boat returning to dock; fisherfolk; distant wind farm.
Ocean, left; infrastructure mending, right.
Ocean! Offshore islands! Minimal infrastructure.
No ocean. Language lesson: cone as a verb. We documented multiple usages, and all to do with orange ones, not ice cream ones.