Swimming with sea turtles!

We woke up before dawn this morning to catch a boat to a very remote part of the island: Nualolo kai on the Ne Pali coast. It was unreal! I spent my morning pulling a very heavy GPR (ground-penetraring radar) unit across a field in the baking sun. We will analyze this data once we get back to CA, but it will show us what is going on below the surface – a different sort of remote sensing.

After this a group of us went snorkeling for a few hours around the rock reefs in the bay, which included swimming with some very groovy and ginormous green sea turtles which we named Frank Sinatra and Freddie Mercury.

After some time exploring the highlands with a group of invasive goats (and their “fallen” comrades) we got back on our boats and motored off into the sunset.

I didn’t take any photos so please refer to my cronies’ blogs for some!