{"id":1462,"date":"2008-08-24T20:35:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T04:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/wordpress\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2008-08-24T20:35:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T04:35:46","slug":"the-lazy-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/the-lazy-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"The lazy hour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThe lazy hour<\/a>
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\nOriginally uploaded by Alanna Spence<\/a>
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5 o’clock is the lazy hour for us. We’ve usually come home after a days
\nworth of activities, had a cooling dip in the pool, and are ready for
\nsnacks and\/or naps. The geckos usually start to tease us with a few
\nchirps by 6 o’clock, signaling time to make dinner. Tonight is chicken
\nand mango salad with papaya dressing. We’ve got leftover to get
\nthrough.<\/p>\n

Today we went back to our snorkeling spot at kapoho tidepools. We first
\nstopped at a cute little diner in downtown hilo for eggs and rice. We
\nstopped along the way at Lava Tree State Park and strolled a little down
\nthe path. It’s a beautiful park, full of chickens, and we need to go
\nback on a cool, overcast day or some cool night when we haven’t expended
\nall our energy on the fish.<\/p>\n

Snorkeling was once again awesome but I had trouble finding my way back.
\nThe reef snakes around like a giant maze and its easy to loose your way.
\nI wound up in some too shallow places and would have to turn around on
\nthe lava rocks like a beached whale with a current insulting me further.
\nI started to get frustrated and made some bad moves so I’m a little
\nbruised and cut up but none the worse for wear.<\/p>\n

We saw some new stuff today. Lots and lots of adorable white spotted
\nboxfish, and I saw a huge school of cornetfish and what might have been
\na gobie? It was eel-like but too short to be an eel, it darted into the
\nrocks before I could get a good look at him. I also ran across the
\nweirdest egg sack. It was a long string of eggs, smaller than chicken
\neggs but bigger than robbin eggs. The sacks were sort of reddish orange.
\n From a distance I swore I was looking at the tentacles of a very large
\noctopus. When I got up close I realized they were two tubes of eggs,
\nattached at both ends to the rocks. They were very close to shore. I
\nhave no idea what they could have been but they were strange enough to
\nmake me feel a little uneasy, like momma was just around the bend,
\nwaiting to attack me for messing with her eggs. I thought they might be
\nturtle eggs but turtles lay in the sand, right?<\/p>\n

After snorkeling we went to see where the lava flow hits the water. You
\ncan’t get very close to it right now from the puna side, we just hiked
\nin a little and saw big billows of steam, but no fireworks. Still
\nwalking around on lava was pretty neat and we got to check one more
\nthing off ‘the list’. Ice cream was our reward as well as some ice cold
\nlillikoi drink, my favorite. We drove homeward, stopping at Borders to
\npick up new magazines and a reef fish book, and Safeway for more ice
\ncream and some hawaiian sweet bread.<\/p>\n

Tom met his doppleganger at Borders. I went to find him and stand right
\nnext to him was a man wearing the same color hat, same color shirt, and
\nsame color shorts. I mentioned this fact and tom said “yeah, and we’re
\nholding the same magazine.” The guy was talking Tom’s ear off about
\ndigital studio stuff so I took a photo of the two of them and got lost
\nin quilting magazines. They have a pretty similar studio setup except
\nthe guy has more high end stuff. He was German and about 20 years older
\nthan tom but he could have been his uncle. I let them talk awhile until
\nI finally broke up the party and said “sorry, our ice cream is melting.”
\nWith a very straight face the guy asked “but is it analog or digital?”
\nTom thought he was asking a question about a piece of equipment “sorry?”
\ntom said. “The ice cream, analog or digital.” We both laughed out loud.
\n“Oh, its definitely analog.” And we parted ways. I miss that guy
\nalready. I hope we run into him again. I think he was so excited to have
\nsomeone to talk to about music, he wouldn’t let Tom get a word in.
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