DFR Travels: Last blog while travelling...

Our little encampment on the beach at Kam III

Ian really got into it and decided to go nude!

Fellette can do this for hours, swimming out to deep water once in a while to get rid of excess sand.

Ian determined to get the right wave.

Judy surveying the scene before us, soon to be a memory.

Friday, February 26, lovely day, haze has gone.

This is one of those days where I have mixed emotions. Happy to be going home and sad to be leaving here.

Fellette and I were up extra early to squeeze a snorkel swim in today. Fellette had a great snorkel but I ended up having a very long conversation with a woman who was the only person on the beach at 6.50 am. Her daughter was out snorkel ling alone, when Fellette went in and joined the search for exotic things in the early morning light.

The other swimmer is a veterinarian from Saskatchewan, vacationing with her mother. We were both anxious to see our snorkelers back on the beach. Eventually Fellette came in delighted to have seen a sea turtle as well as a ray and the usual array of colourful fish.

The vet soon came ashore absolutely shivering to death. She was having such a delightful time that she did not want to come ashore. Delighted, she came over and told of her observations: an eel, a couple of other exotic things that I cannot remember, but her main excitement was a white-tipped shark. Although originally frightened she was fascinated with the thing and lost track of time and her temperature.

We returned for a 'clean-out-the-fridge-breakfast'. We four were soon at it packing our bags. Sounds easy, but we have a considerable amount of personal goodies that we store in our lock-up here, that took till noon.

After lunch we went down to the beach and had a great time frolicking in the mild surf. Ian even went in. Judy looked a vision of loveliness in her flowing dress and sun hat.

We had made reservations for a sunset dinner at the Four Season Hotel at Wailea. We had a great table by the ocean side of the outdoor restaurant. The whales were active and the sunset was, as usual, spectacular.

During the meal, the Canada Slovakia game was on. I was kept up to date by Craig and Wally via BB. Rude as it was I could not have done otherwise. Great job Canada.

To bed and then up to fly on the great silver bird at 3.00 pm Saturday.