THE PACKER 6

Monday, December 21, 2009

Dolphins and Sting Rays and Whales…Oh My!

We had a fabulous day on a Na Pali snorkel sail tour by Holo Holo Charters.  Dawson was old enough to go and had a blast.  The younger kids stayed back with Jeff’s wife who graciously offered to stay with the little ones.  Thanks Heather!  The morning started with boarding our catamaran and heading out to snorkel. 

756606906_dsc02295 

The snorkeling was amazing and we saw a TON of fish.  I was worried Dawson would be scared since this was his first time snorkeling outside of the pool.  But, he jumped right in and thoroughly enjoyed it.  He wasn’t scared at all.

Kauai '09 (5)

We were all famished – time for some breakfast!  Check out that spray tans – Nice Huh?

P1000550

P1000554

Hanging out on the trampoline getting wet and enjoying the scenery.

 P1000563

Gorgeous Scenery!  Na Pali is absolutely amazing.

  756612910_dsc02467

756613589_dsc02491

756615021_dsc02527

756614099_dsc02499

756615201_dsc02534

756615607_dsc02539

P1000607

756616049_dsc02543

P1000567

756608977_dsc02346 

 756611126_dsc02429 

756613276_dsc02484 

756613911_dsc02496

P1000577

P1000593

756617460_dsc02566

756613438_dsc02489

All that snorkeling tuckered Dawson out and we had to wake him up when we started seeing the “big show”.

P1000558

We saw sooooo many dolphins, probably over 100, and they put on an amazing “show”.  They were jumping and flipping and swimming right underneath the boat. 

756609732_dsc02381

756617630_dsc02573

We even saw a huge stingray!

756618238_dsc02587

And the highlight of the day was definitely the whales.  They stole the show and were amazing.  We saw about 15 whales – every time you looked, you saw a blow hole shoot in the air. 

756618317_dsc02607

This whale was swimming toward the boat and they cut the engines and let the whale swim toward us.   It got within 100 ft. of the boat and gave us a perfect shot of it’s tail.

756616859_dsc02552

756616706_dsc02550

756616990_dsc02554

756617302_dsc02561

756618765_dsc02620

All tuckered out and time to head back.  It was an amazing day – one I will never forget.

No comments: