I promised these waves quite some time ago, but my life is pretty much being lived on a schedule that didn’t leave time for photo editing. Â Each of these photos has been somewhat edited, but only to move sea spray blemishes. Â I worked diligently to keep my camera lens clean but there was so much water in the air it was pretty much a hopeless cause.
These are seven frames in a row. Â I guess I should have put them in slide show form and played them really fast for you.
You know, a body just has to love a class that gives homework that feels a lot like skipping school. Sigh.
Whew! It has been a long time since I was here last. I bet you want to know what I’ve been up to. Well, for awhile I was down. I just couldn’t look at the computer screen without my eyes and head screaming in protest. Since I was also blowing my nose and feeling icky in general, I thought I was coming down with a cold, but OC says it was probably just another bout of allergies, since I wasn’t exhibiting other cold symptoms. For those couple of days I mostly slept and felt sorry for myself.
Then Saturday came and the scientist —
— said he was going to Haleiwa to look at alga (seaweed) and did I want to come along? Okay, I know that doesn’t sound very exciting to you but let me translate — OC was asking if I wanted to ride with him to the other side of the island and spend the morning beachcombing, and — if the water was clean despite the recent storms — maybe even do some swimming. My answer, of course, was YES!
Haleiwa Photo Slide Show
For some reason this won’t load on my blog.
We returned to the same place we went last time, which isn’t really a swimming spot, but I think you’ll agree that it’s beautiful. By the time OC finished collecting and examining seaweed, the storm that had been forcasted was coming over the mountain and it was time to leave.
A Hawaiian Language Lesson for Melli and Other Interested Readers: As I have said before, the syllable break on a Hawaiian word is at the vowel. If there are several vowels in a row, each is it’s own syllable. So Haleiwa is Ha-le-i-wa. The Next thing you need to know is that the Hawaiian alphabet doesn’t have the “W” sound in it. All Ws should be pronounced with a “V” sound — including Havaii! So, in parts: Ha (like the laugh); Lay; E (like the letter name); Vuh. Four Syllables: Ha Lay E Va. Ha Lay E Va. Ha Lay E Va. Now, if you’ve got that down, try saying it with the actual word: Haleiwa.
