Day 10 : Hanauma Bay

Merry Christmas Eve!!   We got up at about 630, put on our swimsuits, and headed off to Hanauma Bay.  This time the parking lot wasn’t full, so we made it in.  I did feel a little silly being in my swim suit before 7 a.m., but we were determined to do Hanauma Bay today!  We reached the beach a little after 8, and found a shady tree area that we set up our towels, beach chairs, and cooler under.  The scene reminded me of a corona commercial.

Because the water was a little too cold still in the early morning, we sat in our chairs and read our books for a few hours before hitting the water for snorkeling.  The snorkeling here is beautiful.  The whole bay is a huge coral reef, and there are all kinds of gorgeous fish of all sizes, some absolutely huge.  I tried to measure a few of them, and they were almost as long as my whole arm.  We actually saw a sea turtle eating off of the reef pretty close to shore too.  It was really cool seeing a sea turtle that close up.

I kept telling Chris as he’d try to go over the reefs in the shallow area “too fat” through my snorkel.  My new body size is something I’m not quite used to yet and I was really nervous about hitting my belly (or these ginormous new boobs) on the reef.  We did kind of get trapped in one shallow area that was a bit too shallow, and I cut my leg and my fingers trying to swim over top of it to deeper waters.

As you can see, my new body comes equipped with its own floatation devices.  Handy huh?

The day was so beautiful and relaxing.  It was nice to do an entire day of the beach.  We snorkeled many times throughout the day…the water was a bit cold, so after 30-45 minutes, we’d get out, warm up in the sun while we read our books, and then head back in.  I think we left the beach sometime around 3 o’clock.  It was a great, beautiful day!