Here are a few pictures from one of our diving days. The first one is called 3 Tables. It's on the North Shore. This is an awesome shore dive because it's easy to get in and out. Also the rock formations are pretty.

Next picture are some Uhu (Parrot fish) that we got while doing a boat dive at what they call the Diner. This is a deep dive and we always see a ton of eels here. They should call it Eel City. Some of them are HUGE!

Last picture is looking down at what is called Sharks Cove. Another awesome shore dive on the North Shore. Because you are not able to fish here, there are a ton of different fish here and always turtles. Sometimes the turtles make me nervous because they come right up to you. Don't want to get bit by one but I do rub thier backs all the time. They are protected here in Hawaii and you can get a hefty fine for abusing them. Such as holding on to them or trying to ride them.

More diving pictures. The first two are of an eel. He's not very big but he let me get pretty close to him before ducking back into his hole. The color of the coral and rocks show up really good in this picture also. Then of course....my favorite, another turtle. He swam around us forever. Think he thought we were going to feed us something. Makes me nervous when they bump ya because they do bite!

Every year Kenny's unit does a fund raiser called Pie In The Face. This is not any ordinary pie. This is a pie made up of gross stuff. Just a few of the ingridents...fish oil...which really stinks! Old cabbage they let sit out for weeks. Food that people had in thier fridge that they just wanted to get rid of. Then they top it off with some whip cream. The soldiers all get together and bid on the pie. After winning the bid, they get to pick who they want to recieve the pie in the face. Here are just a couple of pictures from the event. This is for raising money for company events. Helps the soldiers out that cannot afford to pay for certain functions.

Yesterday was my birthday. Started out as a normal day. I went to work and come time to go home....OH! MY! GOSH! Traffic was absolutely horrible! A military truck carrying a crane on it had hit an overpass on H1. Now, this freeway usually has 6 lanes on a regular day packed with cars. To make matters worse they cut it down to 2 lanes and then to 1 lane. They were telling people to stay in town or go around the island. Too late...I was already in the middle of all the crap. Great. I called Kenny to see if he knew of any alternate routes I could take to get home. There really aren't any. After sitting in traffic for about 3 hours, the radio station said that it was grid-lock around the entire island. If you happened to be stuck in traffic...you were stuck. People were pulling off to the side and parking, trying to wait it out. I just wanted to get home. I was surprised that everyone stuck in this mess was actually being nice..no cutting people off, no road rage. I leave work at 5pm. I did not get home last night until after midnight! Thats over 7 hours!!!! on what is suppose to be a freeway! I could have drove around this island about 12 times and never take that long! Traffic permitting of course. First thing I did when I finally got home was run to the bathroom. I was so stressed, tired and hungry. Felt like I had just run a marathon. My whole body ached. Needless to say...I did not go to work today. When I called, I was told that no-one in the accounting department was going to be there today. Hawaii really needs to come up with a solution for the freeway problems. I really hate driving here.

This is a sub coming into Hickam Airforce Base. It was awesome to watch this sub come in to port. We were at our dive club preparing for a boat dive and had to stop everything to watch this sub come in. Perfect day for diving. The water was as smooth as a lake. Everyone kept saying something was wrong....we had to go back in and wait for surg or wind to kick up. NO WAY!!! We went diving.
Lobster season opened up September 1st and we all wanted to go get some lobster. Needless to say we didn't find any on this day. We did see a couple of white tip sharks out swimming around. It was so cool because me and another diver, Jerry, got within a foot of these sharks. They are not an aggressive shark so I wasn't too worried. Was my first time seeing them outside a cave.





On our 2nd dive, no lobster, sucks. We did get one taco (octopus). It was a good size one. We are planning on smoking it. The locals say that is the best way to cook them up. They also make what they call taco poki with them. I don't really care for that but everyone else seems to love the stuff. Too fishy for me.

On our safety stop before ending our 2nd dive, I'm hanging around the rope with the fish and taco that have been caught, look down towards the bottom and see a hammerhead. These sharks make me very nervous. Wanted to get out right then but couldn't because I still had 2 minutes to go for deco. This hammerhead swam below me for some time. Only thing I could think of was..here I am hanging by a bunch of dead fish. I moved to the other side of the boat just in case. The hammerhead stayed below me the entire time. I ws ready to get out before he realized that our catch was just above him.