A pretty mellow week out and about on the lovely Big Island. It started out with me making a nice long trek to Makalawena last monday, which definitely seems longer than I remember it. I walk it at night, which has its pros and cons, but I think I favor it better than the hot sun of the day. I have a very small chance of being picked up by someone but it is very cool even chilly the later in the walk it gets. Surf picked up once I moved north a bit and I found a bodyboard at Kua Bay on one of my water runs to Kua Bay which was a nice mix up for stuff to do. I got in a couple of dives this week at Otec and Puako, which felt gret to get back into the diving since I haven't been breathing underwater in about two weeks. I should of mention it last week, but I did finally, after two years, finish The Brothers Karamazov and it is definitely the greatest and most enjoyable piece of literature I have ever read in my life. I then read As I Lay Dying this week and it was pretty solid but seemed much like a short story since getting off the Dostoevsky band wagon. I am almost through In Our Time by Hemingway and then onto Cormac Mcarthy's first novel The Orchard Keeper. Well her are some shots for the week, enjoy ;)
About 2/3 of the school was circling around Ryan, while the rest of them were cruising over, behind and under me. You also have to realize I only caught the tail end of the circling on video. A lot of the Ulua had already stopped circling and were cruising out into the blue before I had started filming. I would say there was somewhere around 400+ Ulua altogether, most of them being around 30-50 lbs but a good number of large ones being close to 100 lbs. It was pretty amazing to catch a glimpse of 3 of them out of the corner of my eye and then by the time I looked up, several hundred of them buzzing past me at mock 10 speed and being able to feel the water rushing by me. Talk about a serious pack of wolves out for some blood; I'm pretty sure every fish on the reef was shaking in there shoes. I know I was.
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