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Health, Fitness & Wellness

Wearing Goggles is like Skinny-dipping

August 26, 2009

Our little adventure out over the coral reefs a few weeks ago convinced me that I needed a new mask and snorkel. I usually just wear goggles when I swim, but I had to spend a lot of time popping my head out of the water to breathe and missed the views below. So I got [...]

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Swimming with Dolphins at Haena Beach

August 15, 2009

Only three days in Kauai what were we thinking? So many beaches, so little time! We hit Haena Beach this morning and got in some good sand sliding, river stomping action (once again we forgot our camera so have very little to show for our excursion except for this shot of the Dry Cave across [...]

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Beautiful Brown Hanalei Bay

August 14, 2009

Our first morning out in Kauai we went to Hanalei for a quick visit to the beach. It is a sweet little beach town, unlike anything on the Big Island. Hanalei Beach was crescent shaped and miles long. There were a ton of surfers sitting on their boards waiting for a gentle wave to roll [...]

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Swimming Without My Life Support

August 9, 2009

After leaving the cave and braving the mild churn that tossed us around a little bit in the cove, we were back out in the open water gawking at the ocean floor like a couple of starry-eyed mainland tourists, marveling at this undersea forest that we didn’t even know existed earlier this morning.
We continued along [...]

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Cave Exploration on the Big Island

August 9, 2009

Just after watching the sea turtle swim by for a few minutes Beth and I poked our heads above water to see a cave which had been carved out of the jagged lava rock cliffs right in front of us. Beth had visited this cave before with our friend Trisha, but did not remember that [...]

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Awesome Coral Reefs on the Big Island of Hawaii

August 9, 2009

As I mentioned in an earlier post, when Beth and I swim we generally swim the same route day after day, starting at the south end of Hapuna Beach and swimming our way north, except on days where the current in particularly strong, when we swim with the current instead, again, as mentioned earlier.
Today was [...]

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The Length of Hapuna and Hamburgers

August 8, 2009

We extended our morning swim a little longer today, an extra .2 miles, which means that we went the full length of Hapuna, to the little beach that it just north of the resort. We’ve read that the beach is 1/2 mile long, which means our usual swim is 1 mile long (or so we [...]

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The Five Minute Ocean Swim

August 7, 2009

Today was the first time we went swimming in the bay at the Fairmont Orchid on the Kohala Coast- don’t worry we didn’t sit on the chairs or use their towels! Unfortunately the water was so cloudy that we couldn’t see anything under the water. Which was funny because there were all sorts of tourists [...]

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Swimming Against the Current

August 4, 2009

For the two months we have been going to Hapuna Beach for our morning swim, we have started and ended from the same spot every day. Get in at the south end of the beach, swim to the north end, pause for a few minutes to catch our breath and clear the accumulated salt from [...]

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