To Lana'i

Today I left at dawn on a sailing catamaran to Lana'i.

In the picture below, you are looking at the full moon getting ready to set, not the rising sun::



The crew was young and enthusiastic. Here is Jill describing something or other:



This is Capt. Ben. To me he looks like he's about 17, but I think he's been working with theo company for quite a while.


There were lots of whales going and coming. Here is the morning shift.




It was a beautiful morning as the sun came up. Here are the flags flying from one of the stays:



Here's the harbor in Lanai.


These guys had spent 9 hours overnight kayaking from Maui to Lana'i.



On Lana'i, there is a fair amount of work going on. It looks like the guy here isn't wearing safety gear, but he is union. The whole island is owned by 1 guy, David Murdock (no relation to Rupert, they said. It's a union island though.



Here's the beach we had to snorkel at, pretty miserable, right?


Next to the sandy beach was a lava flow out into the water, and there was coral all along the bottom which made for good snorkeling.






On the way back to Lahaina, there was a whale almost too far out to photograph, that was slapping its tail, meaning that about every 30 seconds it would lift its tail up out of the water and then smack it down with a big splash. It did that for maybe 5 minutes.



oh, ok, i'll put in one more whale tail I took:



Wait, I think this is a mom and baby whale hanging out. It sort of felt like there were whales lurking all around us. One is spouting, one is flipping its tail.