"The Point of Saturation..."

And today we have 11!

Tuesday February 23. Cloudy but still lovely weather.

Apparently the Trade Winds have disappeared the last few days but are scheduled to return tomorrow. The Trade Winds are the reason Hawaii has such a wonderful climate. We missed them, and as a result the weather has been a bit uncertain and a sea haze has been hanging around.

Fellette and I were fully awake at 5.00 am, coffee on and computer at work.

After a coffee and an update from Wally on the gold medal standings, we were off for the short walk down to the beach for an early swim. Today the water was very flat-calm and the whales were singing. It is a wonderful experience to be able to be in their world and share there communications, a very special thing indeed.

Ian was feeling a bit better today and suggested that we have a run in to Lahaina, up the coast about 30 odd miles. This we did. Ian is interested in all things nautical and wanted to find out about the whaling history of Lahaina. The mission was to see the Whalers' Museum, which co-incidentally is at The Whalers Village, a very nice upscale shopping centre that pleased any shoppers in the group.

This is our trusty Gangsta' Dodge Magnum vehicle. [More flash than real goods.]
Just a pretty picture of what a Maui Shopping Mall looks like.

Among other things at the museum is this skeleton of a whale that beached and died in California many years ago.

On the way back we were treated to a real life display by several whales off the coast. None in sight right here though.

While at Whaler's Village we bumped into brother Graham and Maureen [Left pair] with friends. Small world.

Wally kept us, [me] abreast of the Canada vs Germany hockey game via my Blackberry. Glad we won that one, now about tomorrow's game against those nasty Ruskies...!!!!!

No dinner today, none of us were hungry for some reason. We only had a late light lunch. After a brief discussion on the matter, Ian suggested that we had finally reached that illusive 'Point of Saturation'. We all agreed, 48 days of travelling will do that to you!

An update on that comment on cameras yesterday...

I told you that I was still learning. Further investigation proved that those pictures are stored in a 'built-in-memory' on my camera. To prove this I removed my memory stick and they are still there. I am not sure if they went there automatically or through my error. Still learning.