Wednesday
I took six of the painted deck boards over to the Ahi lot. While there, I painted the two fascia boards and one more 2 x 6 to be used for blocking. Then I ran out of red paint.
Then I returned to Holowai. Using some scrap wood, the threaded rod and the 6″ tires I brought from Arizona, I made a carrier for moving a tree trunk from the Ahi neighbor’s property to mine. A while ago, there was a strong wind that came through and blew down two of the five trees that they left standing on their lot when they stripped it bare. I helped them cut them into smaller pieces and asked if I could have the trunk from the larger tree. I will use it somewhere as a post or a beam. I need to move it to my property and it is too large and heavy for the three of us to move. Maybe if I put it on wheels???
I also made a frame for the Ahi address sign, painted the back of the sign and varnished the front to preserve the painted words. It is hot and sunny, so I went to the ocean at Honu’apo for a swim.
The tide pools are gone! The wading pool at the point has 6″ of green slimy water in it and the swimming pool has maybe a foot of water in it.
The areaI call the “estuary” is bone dry. There is a concrete/rock column with a large metal bar at the top that looks like an anchoring point. This is normally surrounded by water a few inches to a foot deep. It is high and dry!
The ocean is very flat and calm.
Past the estuary, towards Hilo, there is a metal cross that someone has erected. Some idiots have spray painted graffiti onthe lave. The lava is so pourous that the letters they have painted are all blurred out! Kind of like spray painting on chain link fences! Near this cross, at the ocean side, there is a natural bridge/arch about 15 to 20 feet long and 8 feet tall. Normally, you cannot see it because of the water and waves, but today it is very visible.
It is just like when I was here on February 15th!
Even the turtles were back!
They probably are always here, but because of the waves crashing on the lava making it impossible to get this close to the ocean without getting washed away, I don’t usually see them.
Again, I hung around for a while watching the turtles. there were at least fourm of them swimming back and forth in the action of the waves. Every once in a while, one would stick it’s head out of the water to get a breath of air, and then right back down to continue gathering whatever it is they eat. Each one is at least 3 feet across their shell – one of them looked like it had a head the size of a cantaloupe.
After watching the turtles, I headed back to town. i stopped off at the park in Waiohinu to fill up the 20 or so water bottles I had with me. Then back to Holowai.
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