Maui Day 3

Day three brought a whole new adventure for us. Again we got up early this morning to make the most of our time in Maui. We headed down to Kihei for a snorkel/rafting trip. Let me just say, I hate snorkeling. No really. It is an awful experience for me. I do not like floating helplessly in the ocean and I usually get seasick. However, Josh...LOVES snorkeling. So, I compromised and went along. So glad that we did!

Our tour was through Blue Water Rafting where we were on a rigid raft with about 15 people. It was crazy. Watch the video at the link if you have time... We were hitting waves with no hesitation. It was a complete adventure and I would recommend this to anyone coming to Maui (except if you are pregnant, trying to get pregnant, have had or has back problems/surgery, or get easily motion sick).

This is our boat (well, actually one I sniped off of the internet). If you notice the two blue ropes on either side of the boat sides, that was ALL we had to hold on to to keep us in the boat. We sat on the edges and held on to those blue ropes while our boat jumped 15 foot waves! My hands hurt soooo badly! We did a lava tour (awesome!) and on the way saw a pod of spinner dolphins (really awesome!) and even some bottlenose dolphins (SUPER awesome!). Our guides, Brad and Kapeli even thought it was incredible to see both. This was also a snorkel trip so we snorkeled in four different locations. The first was not nearly as pretty as I had expected. The next two were on either side of Molokini Crater. It was beautiful with bright colored fish and gorgeous coral. On our way back to the boat dock, we stopped off at Turtle Town and swam with giant sea turtles! So neat! They are very curious and would come right up to where you were. No touching though, they are protected!

That night we were exhausted! We all got a little too much sun and our tushies were very sore! We had a low key night where we went to eat at a Mexican place called Tia Juana's and then headed over to Walgreens (yep, really) to get our underwater disposable cameras processed. We will have to keep our fingers crossed that my turtles and dolphins turned out as well as I am hoping!