so i meant to post this last night, but i was apparently a lil too worn out from it, so here it is...:
after living on this island for over 30 months now, i saw my first monk seal swimming right off a shore here on the upper west side of maui. i've seen them before, but not since i've lived here, so i was pretty excited. but since this sighting i speak of came close to sun down, let me rewind the day a bit for you...
i woke up late with a killer headache. i didn't even finish my 2nd drink the night before, but then again, 1 of my drinks are more like 3 or 4 that you would get in most bars, so yea. anyways, my 3 roommates were talking about going to go jumping off cliffs, which i can't do right now because of some temporary disability issues i'm going through at the moment, so i was going to stay in the house and suffer my pounding melon. they cooked breakfast, bacon, egg and salsa sandwiches. i took 1 bite of mine and just felt worse, almost sick, so i knew i was going to stay in now.
an hour later, their ride shows up and tells me he's not leaving without me. i explained i couldn't go hiking or cliff diving, so he told me we'd go to a beach. we went to kapalua bay with an ice chest full of beer, 7 of us. we drank and smoked for a while, and then they wanted to hike to the cliffs, so i stayed behind to watch our shitte. i called friends and family i hadn't talked to in a while and did some catching up. i also continued to drink the beer i was guarding.
when they showed back up, 1 of my roommates had very noticeably lost a fight with something because he had blood running down his leg. he said it wasn't as bad as it looked, so i didn't argue. he rinsed it off in the staph prone ocean water we are surrounded in, and then poured beer on it. "sanitized." we had a couple more beers and left to meet a friend that never showed up where we were at.
we met our missing posse on a small beach i've never been to before, which is strange because i used to live down the street from it, literally. it was very small and off the road, down the ledge. there were some stairs, so i was able to make it down safely. i heard them saying something about a monk seal, but didn't see it yet. we drank and smoked more. then i saw it...:
it was big. we were on shore and it was about 20 yards from us in the water, eating, i'm assuming. we watched it, amused, for about an hour. then my roommate with the cut on his leg from earlier, skip, decides he wants to check this beast out up close. skip is a big guy and was questioning the size of the seal. i told him the animal was about twice his size, to which he scoffed. so skip decided to see for himself.
he swam around the backside of the seal, almost predator like, so he could get up close. skip took his time, so as not to scare the creature away, and got pretty close to it, before it noticed him. skip said their eyes met and he didn't look too nice, so he booked it, fast. i have never seen an olympic swimmer get anywhere in water that fast, heh. no harm was done, thank gods, but i did get these pics with my shitty phone camera and thought i would share them with you...:
so we watched the sunset, which was shitty because of our nice vog...:
and then we all decided it was time to call it day, as we had been in the sun for at least 5 hours drinking nothing but beer. and as i walked away, i thought i'd give you all this too...:
we got home, made necessary food, ate and passed the fuck out, which is why i'm sending this a day late, but then again, i never claimed to be perfect...
aloha.
after living on this island for over 30 months now, i saw my first monk seal swimming right off a shore here on the upper west side of maui. i've seen them before, but not since i've lived here, so i was pretty excited. but since this sighting i speak of came close to sun down, let me rewind the day a bit for you...
i woke up late with a killer headache. i didn't even finish my 2nd drink the night before, but then again, 1 of my drinks are more like 3 or 4 that you would get in most bars, so yea. anyways, my 3 roommates were talking about going to go jumping off cliffs, which i can't do right now because of some temporary disability issues i'm going through at the moment, so i was going to stay in the house and suffer my pounding melon. they cooked breakfast, bacon, egg and salsa sandwiches. i took 1 bite of mine and just felt worse, almost sick, so i knew i was going to stay in now.
an hour later, their ride shows up and tells me he's not leaving without me. i explained i couldn't go hiking or cliff diving, so he told me we'd go to a beach. we went to kapalua bay with an ice chest full of beer, 7 of us. we drank and smoked for a while, and then they wanted to hike to the cliffs, so i stayed behind to watch our shitte. i called friends and family i hadn't talked to in a while and did some catching up. i also continued to drink the beer i was guarding.
when they showed back up, 1 of my roommates had very noticeably lost a fight with something because he had blood running down his leg. he said it wasn't as bad as it looked, so i didn't argue. he rinsed it off in the staph prone ocean water we are surrounded in, and then poured beer on it. "sanitized." we had a couple more beers and left to meet a friend that never showed up where we were at.
we met our missing posse on a small beach i've never been to before, which is strange because i used to live down the street from it, literally. it was very small and off the road, down the ledge. there were some stairs, so i was able to make it down safely. i heard them saying something about a monk seal, but didn't see it yet. we drank and smoked more. then i saw it...:
it was big. we were on shore and it was about 20 yards from us in the water, eating, i'm assuming. we watched it, amused, for about an hour. then my roommate with the cut on his leg from earlier, skip, decides he wants to check this beast out up close. skip is a big guy and was questioning the size of the seal. i told him the animal was about twice his size, to which he scoffed. so skip decided to see for himself.
he swam around the backside of the seal, almost predator like, so he could get up close. skip took his time, so as not to scare the creature away, and got pretty close to it, before it noticed him. skip said their eyes met and he didn't look too nice, so he booked it, fast. i have never seen an olympic swimmer get anywhere in water that fast, heh. no harm was done, thank gods, but i did get these pics with my shitty phone camera and thought i would share them with you...:
so we watched the sunset, which was shitty because of our nice vog...:
and then we all decided it was time to call it day, as we had been in the sun for at least 5 hours drinking nothing but beer. and as i walked away, i thought i'd give you all this too...:
we got home, made necessary food, ate and passed the fuck out, which is why i'm sending this a day late, but then again, i never claimed to be perfect...
aloha.
joleigh:
thanks darling