Living the Aloha Hi

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

2011-Feb. 16: Kee, Tunnels

This was the morning our resort held it's Owner's Update meeting. We went to it and listened to future plans for the resort. Supposedly it'll be totally renovated in 6 years. It'll be interesting to see if that happens. We were originally suppose to get a totally renovated pool area several years ago, but over the last year they decided to just update the pool area that's already there. They had been doing condo renovations little by little throughout the years, but I was somewhat surprised when we checked into our 2nd week and it still had the old mattresses and bedding in them. I love the resort for it's location, cleanliness, layout, and size of accommodations, but they really can use a good make-over! Seems like most of our maintenance fees have been going towards the new construction at the Bali Hai Wyndham. Love the condos there, but not so much the location--at least not for winter.

Done with the meeting, we saw that the surf report (for snorkeling, not surfing) again recommended the north shore over the south, so off to the north shore we went again! This time we hit Kee first. The water was pool like again.

Here's another visitor enjoying watching the large outter waves.

We even saw a couple turtles at Kee this trip. Also saw one at Tunnels and one at Lawai. It was a good year for swimming with turtles.

a school of Mullets hanging out at Kee

a strange little worm-nudibranch that I've never seen before.

a juvenile Emporer

Many bar goatfish

elegant coris

Magnificent snake eel.

Another view from down the beach at Kee.

Tunnels was also amazingly calm. We've discovered if you go around low tide, the surf usually calms down. With low tide coming about an hour later every day, we were lucky to have low tide in the early afternoon-early evening for almost a week. High tide was about 6 hours later.