A2-Wednesday, February 13, 1980 - North Shore News

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mornings.

This time was a great
adventure, for Mary and I
took the family. All six of us,
the three, six, nine and
eighteen year olds,
disembarked at Honolulu
two weeks ago, from an
airline whose name I will
kindly refrain from ever
mentioning again.

Our irritation melted away
fast in the glorious warm
moist tropical air of
Honolulu airport. The kids
were all eyes, for the palm
trees and many other new
things, and the eighteen year
old boy and his father were
all eyes for the wahines.

Only a few minutes later
we were in another aircraft,
bound for Maui. When we
landed at Kahului airport
and rented a car my tribe
was ecstatic. “Look at the
mongoose!” “Gee, is it ever
nice here!” “When can we go
swimming?”

The first half of our trip
was business. We got a hotel
room in Wailea, on the south
west side of the island, with a
balcony overlooking the sea.
On our very first morning we

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speckulations

by Peter Speck.

Watching the whales

I must be the last North Shore resident to
discover Maui. Each trip gets better, as the island
becomes more familiar to me, and I can see why

so many North Shore people head south in the
winter. It sure beats fog, rain and cold dark

ordered room service and a
very enjoyable breakfast of
papayas and croissants, out
in the fresh Pacific air of the
balcony.

The sky was that in-
credible Hawaiian sky, so
blue. The clouds hung
serenely poised in space like
flat bottomed pillows,
moving slowly with the trade
winds, their shadows flowing
almost imperceptibly over
the slopes of the mountains
below. A coconut palm
nodded sérenely right next
to us.

After our breakfast I was
packing up my briefcase for
the meeting. The eighteen
year old was standing on the
balcony, adjusting his new
straw hat in the reflection
from the glass’ doors.
Suddenly he shouted that he
could see whales’ spouts
mirrored in the glass. We all
rushed to the balcony
railing.

A pod of humpbacks were
cavorting not three hundred

yards away.
it was a most thrilling
sight. They spent about

fifteen minutes off the hotel,
moving right in to the little
bay. Huge animals, their full
Jength -was sometimes visible
as they rose to the surface of
the clear blue water. They
appeared to be feeding, and
were moving about in all
directions. The tail flukes of
one cleared the water as it
rolied on its side, and |
would estimate the length of
one side of the tail fluke at
ten feet or more.

Another, swimming
directly toward us, dived
slowly. I watched a bow
wave build up over his bulk
until we were looking at him
through quite a bit of water.
It reminded me of a film of a
submarine submerging, and
was indeed impressive.

By the time the whales left
there were many people
Standing on the beach.
Whale watching is quite a
popular diversion on the
island. I was pleased and
thrilled to encounter the
most strong expressions of
affection for the leviathans,
almost everywhere I went.

The Hawaiians are proud
of the whales, and the
government protects them.
The whales seem to know it,
as we saw a great many that
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future column.

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