Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Search for the Rays: Part II

After a day of hiking all up and down craters from Volcanoes those will be talked about on a different post. Also the morning of the next day was taken up by the visiting of many different waterfalls and rope swings but that will be talked about on another occasion as well.
Anyways, getting sidetracked, after all that, I go on the dive boat a second time, this time to snorkel. At night.
We come out on the Mai Loa III, I sit on the top of the boat of course, the warm, humid, Hawai'i air whipping my face. I didn't care, I was a man on a mission, I was going to see Manta Rays tonight. We get out to the cove at about four, the Mantas come a callin' at about seven.
I snorkel around for about an hour, saw a moray, some long-nosed butterflies, triggerfish, nothing too amazing.
Then, as I'm swimming against the current back in, I nonchalantly look up at the boat and I see my brother, mother and mike all wide-eyed, making that trademark waving motion that was the signal for any type of ray.

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