Coqui Frogs

The coqui frogs have been very quite lately.  Is it the dry weather???

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Wine Tasting Event

Went to a wine tasting event yesterday in Leilani Estates hosted by Janet and Dan.  Fun time, met some interesting people.  We will probably go to the next International event in February. The new mission for the events is that they include a learning component.

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Tail Slap

At about 3:15PM I saw my first tail slap of the season.  I could hear oooohs and aaaaaaaws from others who  must have also been watching.

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Breaches

Around lunch saw some great breaches.  Scott was in town so missed it.  About 75 yds off the sea cliffs I saw a pod of three.  First it was the big splash on the surface,but I missed the actual breach.  Then I saw the whale breach again and again and again!  No breach activity from the other two whales which I believe were a mother and calf.

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Kitchen Garden

With the high cost of food, the idea of a kitchen garden is appealing.   Although we will probably put in raised garden beds this is a great looking kitchen garden!  Might consider U shaped raised beds. A garden is one of our many projects on the to-do-list!!! :)

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Scott to Test Thumb Today

Scott is off to Hilo Town for multiple activities, one of which is to go to the drving range and test out his healing thumb which he broke playing softball in December.  He is in need of some golf!!!

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Mother and Baby

Saw our first mother and baby humpback off the sea cliffs today at about 11:15AM.  Very little activity especially from the mother.  We figure the baby was nursing and resting...

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Hot, Dry an Voggy

excerpt from the 01/07/10 Hawaii Tribune Herald  

"With El Niño’s influence now in full effect, East Hawaii is experiencing warm, dry weather and heavy vog. And there is little relief on the horizon, according to the National Weather Service.  Speaking from Honolulu on Wednesday, NWS hydrologist Kevin Kodama said the weather station at Hilo International Airport recorded an above-average year for precipitation in 2009, but since Dec. 19, conditions have been unusually dry. So far this year, the Big Island has seen only trace amounts of rain in Hilo and most parts of East Hawaii. Under normal conditions, rainfall at Hilo airport is about 10.5 inches in December, 9.74 inches in January and 8.86 inches in February.  But, “with El Niño in place in the tropical Pacific (Ocean), we get abnormal warming of the sea surface temperatures near the Equator. Patterns in the atmosphere respond to that, even as far as the continental U.S,” Kodama said. “One of the major effects for (Hawaii) is that we tend to get stable and dry conditions from mid-December into spring.”  Kodama said that the El Niño phenomenon can affect weather patterns every few years, with varying intensity.  “The last El Niño was the winter of 2006-07, but that wasn’t really a strong one,” he said.

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Breaches by Day and Songs by Night

Saw some spectacular breaches  and fin action yesterday around lunch time.  Then some great singing later in the evening and some again at 4AM.

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Baseboard Project Starting

Yesterday we purchased our baseboard material and will be starting the project today.  I will be sanding and painting to get the material ready for Scott to install.  Then it will be caulk and touch-up paint before it is all done.  Work, work, work, work, WORK!

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