Capturing the Moment

  After a wonderful night listening to the sound of waves outside our open air bandas everyone awoke excited for our first full day on Mnemba island. A stay here comes with two scuba dives daily included in the price. They also offer different PADI level scuba classes which some of the group was going to do. So after devouring a delicious breakfast which magically showed up on my front deck, I went off to the boat house to meet up with the group. Pipefish   Jack, Fiona and myself were all headed out for a fun dive in the morning and another right after. Mary, John, and Maggie were all going to do a refresher dive and then dive with us for the second dive. And Moira was going to do a discover scuba course since she is not certified...yet.   For most of the group this was their first time taking a dip in the Indian Ocean. We went to Little Wall and Cabbage Reef and had a couple of wonderful dives. The critter hunting was nonstop as we came across cool finds like p...

    Beaches of the North Shore   An Oahu friend told me the other day that no other island can compare to Oahu's beaches. "In fact it is like one big beautiful beach", he said. So I decided to put that to the test. I drove up to the North shore starting at sunset beach down to the beach town of Haleiwa. That was farther than I needed to go to start thinking my friend might be on to something. The softest, whitest sand stretches for miles. Surfers leap off the sand into the ocean to ride the swell which happened to coincide with my north shore visit. Not a coincidence. And think...this is only a fraction of one side of the island. Give me enough time and I'll have the full picture of this island we call Oahu.