Day 32 and 33 - July 28th and 29th

Today was a busy day. The plan was to go shore diving in the morning, so we got up and packed then had to wait a little bit before getting out the door. Ryan, Julia and I dove off of Crescent Beach which is near the harbor, and the same site basically as Manta Ray Bay where we went from Ron's boat. Its a cool dive, but like many places on the island the reef goes down really steeply and while following some fish I managed to swim to 72 feet before realizing it (we were trying to stay above 60). Thankfully I had Doug's computer so it compensated and I was able to continue my dive shallower which lasted for 61 minutes. This was my last day dive here in Hawaii which was kinda sad, but it was a great dive, despite a longish walk over a lava rock trail down to the beach.

That night there were only three divers on Sea Paradise so I was able to, for what would be my last night dive, and I got to take video. Diving at the south site is so different than diving at the north site, mainly because there is a lot of surge down south because you are closer to shore. It was cool and we saw two Mantas: Salem Ray and Capt. Kirk. I also got some good video, thanks to Martina helping hold me down as I twisted and turned to follow the rays in the surge.

Saturday was fairly uneventful, my only job today was to finish my project, which I did (and if I do say so myself, its pretty cool.) I spent the whole morning editing and ended up with a 17 minute project. Then this afternoon Julia and I watched Footloose (very entertaining) until Martina was finished with her work so I could get back on the computer and make a few corrections as well as make a short 4 minute teaser project.

So now (unless I go to the Sheraton tomorrow) I am officially down with my internship program. Time really flew by while I was over here, its hard to believe I go home on Monday.

Day 31 - July 27th

After looking over my work hours for the last few days and seeing that I had worked either day or night for the past five days straight Martina told me that I had to take a day off, so I did. On Thursday I got dropped off at the beach in the morning with a lemon, my book, my snorkel gear and camera. I had a wonderful morning, I relaxed on my towel with the lemon in my hair (trying to be blonde again you know...) and read my book for a while then when it got too hot I headed into the ocean and swam around.

The beach, Kahalu'u Beach Park, was pretty awesome. There wasn't much of a beach but the area was a large mostly protected cove that was less than five feet deep for about 100 yards and the far side had some small swells that people would surf on.

Since most of the cove was protected the water was pretty clear and there were a ton of fish (who didn't seem to care that we were there), as well as lots of turtles.

After swimming and taking pictures I headed back to the beach, read my book and had a huge snocone, which was delicious.

The rest of the day and night was spent relaxing, like I was told to.