on thursday we went to kailua for a guided kayak tour. i've never been kayaking before but i definately want to do it again! it was awesome, i felt like i could paddle anywhere in it, haha, well plus it was in kailua bay so way calmer than the shark tours off north shore the day before. i was in a two-person kayak and we went from kailua beach to a "turtle cleaning station" and then to lanikai beach to snorkel. it was cool, but i guess i'm a little jaded from living here because i see turtles all the time on the north shore and the snorkeling off lanikai was much more murky and shallow than like shark's cove or somewhere, so i couldn't done without that, but it was cool anyway.
after snorkeling, the really neat part was paddling out to the mokulua islands, one of them has a little beach and even though the whole place was a bird nesting sanctuary (eww... birds... poop...), it was a nice beach with some cool reef and tidepool areas.
this tidepool was really deep so you could jump in and go swimming, it was a lot saltier too (because of evaporation) so you float really high, but i didn't go in because it was all stagnant and gross (but very appealing to tourists, haha).
it was really cool being on that little island, and our guide was a geomorphologist (i really like geophysics) and he was telling us that like just in the past 10 years they discovered that the entire east coast of oahu was a giant volcano that plunged into the ocean like 1.2 million years ago, the ko'olaus were the western edge of the crater and the mokulua islands were actually part of the volcano's core (the waianaes were another volcano, so long ago oahu kinda looked like maui), and the volcano slid into the ocean in one of those ancient landslides creating a mega-tsunami (like the one in the medditerrainian, santorini, the one that they think destroyed atlantis, and like the volcano in the canary islands that's gonna collapse soon that they think would create a mega-tsunami big enough to destroy the entire eastern seaboard of the US and put all of manhattan underwater all the way up to the empire state building). cool huh? i've been watching a lot of the history channel, and the discovery channel, and the science channel, and the national geographic channel... they're all in HD.
so that was my kayak adventure, man, i've been doing things in the past week that i haven't done in my entire life of living here on the island, ha. the kayaks were really cool though, i'm pretty sure you can just rent them from kailua beach and it wouldn't be that hard to paddle out to these islands again... i'm itching to do it again...oh, p.s. - those pics were taken with a rental digital camera, which was sweet because it was $25 for like 123 pictures that they downloaded and burned onto a cd at the end of the tour so you go home with the pictures instantly. only thing, it was really hard to see because the screen wasn't good with all the glare out at sea so i couldn't really tell what kind of pictures i took, and the lens glass got water spots and smearing so the pictures weren't the best... but still cool. then today in the paper i saw an ad for a REAL digital underwater camera:
it's an olympus, so that's a decent brand... still, the camera i used for the kayak tours was an olympus (in a waterproof housing) and i thought it was pretty sucky compared to my maria sharapova canon powershot, but canon doesn't make waterproof cameras so you've gotta buy a housing which costs almost as much as the camera itself. i really love canon and i don't think i would buy any other brand of camera... but i loves me the waterproofness of it all... i'd be picture-taking like a madman.
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