Weekend update

We had a fun weekend, bike riding on Saturday on our usual bike path. Then on Sunday we took a drive up the west side of the island and went until the road ends on that side. The mountains up that way were beautiful. I don't remember seeing the haze so much when we were out but it shows up on the pictures, the winds were light and so the vog from the volcanoes has been hanging around the islands. The water on this side of the island looks just bright, brilliant blue. It seems like further south it has a pretty turquoise color. This road seems to have some decent biking potential too. We may have to drive out and bring the bike another weekend to ride.

After we drove up to the end of the road, we headed back to Nanakuli Beach Park. This was recommended in our guide book to be one of the few good swimming beaches on the west side. Much of the west side shoreline is rocky and with large waves. This beach had a nice shoreline area to swim, so we had a picnic and enjoyed some time swimming and playing in the sand. While we were there, a lifeguard recommended another beach that is very calm and good for little kids called Pokai Bay Beach Park that is nearby, so we may have to try that one another weekend too. It used to be a boat harbor with a breakwater and now is a swimming beach.

When we first got to Hawaii, I was a little bit chicken to swim in the ocean. Swimming has never been my strong suit, but little by little I've headed out and now have found it's pretty fun. Usually we end up taking turns going out since neither Adam or Cole can really swim. Adam has been taking lessons and is getting better. I bought him a suit that has a built-in flotation piece, and he gets around pretty good in the ocean with that. He doesn't need it in the pool. Cole doesn't really like the waves at all. He enjoys swimming in a pool, but he doesn't like the ocean at all.