Date Night #2

Last Wednesday Mike and I went on a whale-watching tour thanks to Groupon. I've been on one once before last deployment, but it was very different--different location, different type of boat, and different time of day. I wouldn't say one was better than the other, but i did get a bit sick on this trip. I haven't ever gotten sea sick before, but thankfully even though my stomach was very upset, I kept it together. This boat was very small and any sicknesses would have been observed by the other 20 people on the boat. That would have been embarrassing.

It was supposed to be a sunset cruise, and i guess technically it was, but the sunset was not its normal beautiful self this night. In general, it's been a rainy, cool, windy week. That could partly be to blame for my motion sickness in the boat.

The whale-sightings were pretty good. We actually saw a whale breach twice, which i did not get to see on the last tour i took, so that is cool. We also saw a whale "spyhop" which is a term used when a whale sticks its head straight up in the air until its eyes are out of the water so it can look around--kind of like a periscope in a submarine. Pretty Cool.

After whale watching, we went to one of Mike's favorite island restaurants, Kona Brewing Company and enjoyed some yummy pizza--that is after a gingeraid to calm down my stomach. *Ginger is a natural remedy for motion/sea sickness that seems to really work.

On the boat, ready to see some whales

first sighting! a humpback whale fluke (tail)
Mike looking out for whales

Diamond Head and a whale fluke way off in the distance, can you see it?

a baby whale breach

spyhopping (that's the whales head sticking up)