Swimming with Green Sea Turtles

Here we are at a reef on the west coast of Oahu. We sat on a wall here with our friends from Texas (I forgot to get a picture of them) and watched the turtles swimming all around. They were beautiful.


We did a little talking to a really nice Hawaiian lady who was watching us watch for turtles. She told us of a place where there were alot of turtles. Some even come out of the water and sit on the beach.



We went to the little hidden cove. There weren't any turtles sitting on the beach, but once we got into the water...WOW! There were turtles all over the place (and some pretty cool fish too.) I just layed there and watched them swim all around. The water got a little murky so I couldn't see very far in front of me, so every few minutes I was startled to see just how close the turtles came up to me. One got so close to Quinn it almost hit him.


We were close enough to touch every turtle we saw, but it is against the law to touch them, so we didn't. It's even against the law to come too close to them, but it's hard to control how close they come to you. They're pretty amazing.



We didn't have a water-proof camera, so we tried to get some good pictures from above. You need to look close. If you click on the picture it will get bigger.