Ben is hitching a ride while I snorkel – he’s finally getting a little bit reliable about holding on!

We spent every day this weekend in the water – I think about 5 hours today alone! After the beach this morning, we came home for a bit while Ben napped, whipped up some grilled focaccia dough, salmon, ribs and then went over to our friends’ home for a bbq with friends here in Kailua. We are so lucky to live in the same town as Mike and Angel and Rich and April – longtime friends from our NR1 days. So the boys were in the pool at Mike and Angel’s home for another 2 1/2 hours while we played volleyball and chatted. April, Angel and I also did some really silly antics (synchronized swimming performances while the boys chased down errant beach balls).

Hoping you had a great weekend, too! Here’s video of two Great Barracuda I spotted this morning – hard to see them but look for the telltale black markings on the dorsal fin and tail. These were young – only about two feet long. They can grow to 6 feet long, and my fish reference book tells me they like to chomp their prey in two then come back and eat the pieces. Nice! I didn’t stick around to see if the young ones were hungry. I bagged 6 seconds of video and booked it back to shore. There are some unusual fishies in that part of the bay!