Entries this day: Aloha_Dude Gush New_beach_games Zzz

Aloha Dude

11:12am HST Tuesday 11 February 2003

Met Jeff, proprietor cat of Aloha Dude internet access. He's quite friendly so be sure to go by next time you're kickin' it Kaua'i style. Zach says it's a good price for access, *AND* he prorated my time after the first fifteen minutes. Nice.

First good thing was him appreciating Macs over Windows-crippled PCs.

He pimped Poliholi, which is apparently at the other end of the road.

AANNnnd he let me enter into wheresgeorge the serial numbers of the bills I got back for change after paying him for my time.

Gush

1:07pm HST Tuesday 11 February 2003

Woah.

This reminds me a lot of Costa Rica. Magnificently lush vegetation as we walk through the jungle on foot wide foot trails. This is how the island should be paved. None of that asphalt crap.

We're at a waterfall, and Zach says the water flow is way way low. Usually this whole thing is pouring a tremendous cascade of water. At the gushingest part of the falls, I tried climbing up the moss covered rock. Way harder than the rock climbing yesterday, for I had X pounds per square inch pounding on my whole body, making it hard to even lift a hand much less climb up through it. This is what it's like to live on Saturn, eh?

The water was cooolld, but I got used to it pretty quickly once my mind was on other things like how the hell to hold on under all the pressure. Janette said Zach got some good pictures of me.

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There's an old Toyota something next to the trail in the jungle. Zach heard that it's only been here like five years. That's absolutely amazing to me. I woulda guessed 30 or 50... BUT I doubt we'd have Japanese cars here that soon after Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour. Dammit, I referred to Pearl Harbour.

New beach games

5:26pm HST Tuesday 11 February 2003

We went to a cool beach and I invented two games. The first one is called Find A Beach With Waves That Have A Rather Large Variance In How High They Wash Ashore And Lie Down While Plugging Your Nose And Ears So That Sometimes Your Entire Body Will Be Covered In Water And Hold Your Breath When The Water Comes! Or I might rename it to Don't Drink The Water. Or maybe Don't Drown. The game is really fun; I was totally giddy and just laughing at the hilarious waves with delicious anticipation! I got pretty good at predicting whether a wave was going to just touch my feet or reach my back or if it would gush over me. Sometimes the waves would float me around and one even turned me around so my head was pointing at the water. So hilarious! Definitely a game I'll play again sometime.

The other game is a variant of the game known as Golf, but I played without seeking to knock the ball into a specific hole. I'd just throw it down within a beach covered in large rocks and the ball would bounce any crazy direction it pleased. Then I go find the ball and bounce it again.

A couple of times I slipped pretty badly on the rocks; they were sooooo slick. One rock looked like it was completely dry and not slick. My right foot shot forward and I collapsed down onto my left shin. Didn't break the skin, but I've got a bit of a bruise now. Very slight, but it could have been baad news. I also fell and came close to bending my fingers backwards farther than is my preference. Whew. No injuries that will keep me from doing whatever I'd like to do for the rest of the time we're here.

I found a lot of beach glass for Janette; she collects it. Some sorta large pieces and some pretty colors. I tried to get a piece of the top of a bottle that included the mouth of the bottle intact, but it was lodged between some rocks so I couldn't get it out.

As we left, Janette or Zach found a coconut and Zach opened it by beating it on a rock. An unshaved guy got out of his car, "what are you doing to that poor rock?" The rest of his banter was as funny and often stranger than that.

I like the looks of people that seem to be locals here. I wonder if I'll come back to live for a while.

Zzz

7:43pm HST Tuesday 11 February 2003

I just read my journal entries to Janette, during which time I found that I scratched my glasses. That musta happened when they quite dirty after I played Don't Drown and then wiped them clean with my T-shirt.

D'oh.

I'm going to read Stranger in a Strange Land using my laptop screen as a multi-thousand dollar night light until we fall asleep.