I’ve been trying to see this giant hole in the ground for a couple weeks. Just off the shore at Ali’i beach park down the street there is apparently a trench that was blasted out by the military to hide a submarine in. It’s about 100 feet from shore, and when you get out there it starts at about 15 feet under. At that point, the hole is about 100 feet to the bottom.
As a person with only the air in my lungs, I dove down to 15 feet, took some photos and came back up a few times.
This is a big scary hole in the ground and I’m glad I saw it. A lifeguard the other day warned me that sometimes sharks sleep there, and while sharks don’t attack humans unprovoked, sometimes “hunger is a good gravy”, so I got a little more scared and swam away from the big dark hole in the ocean.
Here’s someone elses video of the trench:
When I got back to the apartment, we had a discussion about what to do today and decided that we didn’t have anything we wanted to do. Which is odd, since it’s so nice and warm and we were waiting for this weather. But we did all the things we wanted to do, even during the bad weather! So we sat and played with Ava and watched the waves out our porch.
I made lunch of chicken breast sandwiches, but almost botched them. More of the same for the afternoon, and then off to sushi for dinner! This sushi place is great, they have fantastic salmon. And I discovered a new beer to recommend, if you can get it — Hitochino Nest Red Rice Ale. It’s a Japanese beer that is different from the regular Japanese beers you find in restaurants.
While near the sushi place, we went into a few stores. The Patagonia was confusing – we’ve only ever seen them sell winter jackets sooo…what do you sell in Hawaii? A generic surf/snorkel shop. And a great little kids shop that took a bunch of our money in exchange for adorable kids stuff. And lastly, gelato, before coming home for more relaxing. 🙂
Tomorrow is our last day on our own – we have guests arriving Monday and then Tuesday and then it may be a little frantic for a bit!