Bike Ride/whale watching tour

The bikes actually came free with the Kayak Adventure! What a deal...kind of. We had to go to Walmart (shhhh don't tell Dan) and buy handles for the bars because Mark's bike handles were falling off and very very sticky. But it was worth it anyway...
Up the road we go.. Here's my other favorite shirt...the Belize one...what more do you need in Hawaii?

We saw whales pretty much right away and there were some dolphins swimming around also. They do the jump thing but make a much smaller splash. At this lookout we saw a turtle.

This is the area where we saw the turtle...

Then up the coast to Donkey Beach. Marked climbed down to the beach from here. I think he gathered some shells for Karen. We sat there for a while deciding how many windows we'd put in the house we'd build on this point. We want a spout alarm also, so that we could be aware of passing whales.

Out to the end of the road, about 5 miles

Oh, look at the happy bikers!

Unbelievable...Karen actually got a picture of a whale jumping! This is the Mommy whale and there was a large dolphin sized baby whale jumping with her. It was sooo cool to watch the two of them playing, jumping and looking like they were having a great time. After a little bit the Mommy whale had her tail straight up in the air and was slapping the water with her tail. I think they do that to warn off other animals/people but I'm not totally sure

Yup, the whale is in this picture too...black dot above tall person on the left...

On the way back we saw a man walking out to the reef with some fishing nets so we watched him for a while

His wife told us that he was setting nets for lobsters and whe would be out the next morning to collect them. Toyke actually saw him the next morning through the binoculars.

This is a sneak preview of next year's christmas card!!!