Ben Oostdam's |
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 Hawaii I I I - oh! Maui, Lahaina, La Perouse Bay March 10, 1963 |
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On Sunday morning, March 10, Ricky said it was too rough to go deep diving and suggested we leave for La Perouse Bay. Sometime later, however, he changed his mind and we took the boat out past Kaanapali and anchored at a 170 foot ledge where we took a BT and light-measurements and used a descending line to collect some black coral. It felt comfortable and safe to see the bottom of the boat in the silvery shine up aloft. |
| When whitecaps appeared, we headed back for Lahaina, but made a brief stop and anchored when we crossed a rise near Kaa. Ricky made a rapid exploratory dive without finding any black coral. We finished our rough boat ride to Lahaina where we washed off the coral, packed our gear and left around 16:30 with jeep and trailer to drive to La Perouse Bay . All went well till the jeep did not make it up a hill near Makena. |
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Ricky panicked and I rapidly got out, put a rock behind the wheel of the jeep and used the anchorline to tie the trailer - which threatened to pull us downhill - firmly to a tree.
I then had to leave him there with trailer and boat
because I had to take the jeep to make my appointment at 17:00 with Mr. Tavaris. He showed me his house - with 7 beds - and we agreed that I would rent it for at least two weeks. When I got back to Ricky by 19:00, he had received considerable help from Cdr. Hollis, who had pulled the trailer up the hill with a power truck.
| Several other people had stopped by and we all went to party at Wailuku, where we met the USCGS crew, a Portuguese fisherman named Jason, and two young blondes, Barbara and Rose. Rose and I got along so fine dancing close that Jason referred to her as "the opihi-girl", opihi being the Hawaiian term for the limpet clinging to rocks in the surfzone. |
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 (left:) ("Cellena exarata", a culturally-significant Hawaiian limpet") |