Wednesday
This morning at about 7:30, I was laying in bed debating on whether to get up when the bed and the shed started to vibrate, similar to one of those vibrating massage chairs or one of those vibrating beds you can find in a cheap motel room. It lasted for 15 to 20 seconds and then quit. About an hour later, I felt it again, only much softer.
I checked the USGS website and there was an earthquake measuring 4.8 magnitude about 10 miles away from here. It was a kilometer off shore, near Whittington Beach/ Honu’apo.
It had rained overnight, everything was wet, and about 8 am, it started to rain. It was overcast and it rained all morning.
In the early afternoon, I went down to Honu’apo. There was no wind and the ocean was flat – very calm – as opposed to the last time I was here, when the waves were crashing against the lava throwing up sprays of water 40 to 50 feet in the air. The tide was really low and the area I call the estuary was empty.
The wading pool at the point was almost empty, with about 6 ” of green yucky water in it.
What I call “the swimming pool” had only about a foot of water in the bottom. It normally has 5 feet of water inside.
As I walked along the shoreline, I got to where there is a rock bridge. The water is normally crashing against this so that it is difficult to see.
Also, just past this rock bridge, I saw three or four large ocean turtles bobbing back and forth in the waves as they gathered whatever they could to eat.
On the way back to Holowai, I stopped at the hardware store and bought some screws.
I used these screws to fasten the window screens that I had brought from Arizona in place. The windows are next.
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