After several days of watching others paddle past our condo, Morgan and I went down to Keauhou Bay and rented a 2-seater sit-on-top kayak late one morning. We were just in time to catch the tail-end of a visit by a pod of dolphins. As we came out of the bay we saw several leaping and spinning in the distance, and headed our kayak in their direction.

Soon we saw the dorsal fins of a handful a few yards to starboard, then almost a dozen surfaced to breathe a bit further to port. Although all you see in the photo below is the Sheraton in the background…

…I did manage to capture about 10 seconds of video that hopefully won’t make you seasick:

Dolphin Encounter

The encounter with the dolphins swimming close to our kayak was amazing, as was the view of our condo complex from the water.

That kayak sure felt tiny on the heaving swells of the big Pacific ocean. I got a new appreciation for the courage of the paddlers we saw disappearing offshore every day, and felt a visceral connection to the ancient peoples who first arrived at the islands in their sailing canoes.