We stuck with it along with about 70 other people. We headed out and the weather seemed ok except for all the big black clouds everywhere. The first thing (ok, the only thing) we saw was a calf spouting at the surface maybe 20 metres away from the boat and then we could see this huge shape looming under the surface - the mama too! Morgan got a great video of it, which we'll share when we can. I got a few pictures I'll post at the end.
After that, the trip was more adventure than anything. We headed out toward Molokini but when we started to see lightening we turned around. There were so many seasick people on the bottom deck, hugging the rails and clutching rubber gloves filled with water (why? i don't know).
Meanwhile Morgan and I were hanging out upstairs - I was drinking a Blue Hawaiian & eating a bagel. Until the torrential rain started and we had to move to the covered area. Fortunately we didn't have to stay down there with the sickies very long.
The good news is we rescheduled the trip for tomorrow (our flight doesn't leave here until 10:30 at night so we have a whole day to kill) when it should be sunny.
Today we were supposed to go on the manta ray dive but the conditions at the site were awful so we've scheduled a scooter dive at another beach for this afternoon. We're supposed to be seeing turtles & possibly whales and stingrays.
Despite the bad weather lately it's been an amazing trip & not getting to do certain things means we'll have to come back to do them next year :)
This will probably be our last post until we're home again - when we've got all the pics & videos up, we'll post here again.
Aloha!
A picture as we flee Molokini for the shore. About 5 seconds later everyone was below.
Here you can see the mama & baby - the mom is in the front on the left and the baby is just above her.
Here she is spouting...it was an amazing experience & I can't wait to see more tomorrow.
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