We had to be at Tunnels Beach at 8 AM on Wednesday. It turns out Tunnels Beach is really hard to find. There are no signs for it at all. There is a little road that goes to the beach, but it isn't marked, and it's not anywhere near where Google says the entrance to the beach is. We eventually pulled up to that little road and I walked down it. I found the people we were Scuba diving with, and they told us to park at Haena Beach which was a quarter mile down the road.
Robyn was stressing out (like she does) but we got there and got suited up without any problems. They gave us wetsuits and put all the gear on us. We got in the water and had to swim out to where we actually began the dive. It took us a a minute to get back into the groove of how to move with all the gear and everything. But once I was back in the water, everything went super smooth and it was great.
We saw some really cool things while diving. Here are a few of them.
Swimming underneath a turtle
We did a two tank dive, which means you do one dive and then come back and get another tank to go out for more. In between dives, they gave us snacks and our dive masters acted as sherpas, hauling the empty tanks from where we left them in the water and replacing them with full tanks, so that we could put them on in the water and not have to haul them down ourselves.
It turns out I breathe way more than Robyn. Near the end of our first dive, I told the dive master I was down to 200 PSI in my tank, so he told me to go to the surface. At that point, I took the regulator out of my mouth and put in the snorkel. I snorkeled directly above Robyn. She didn't see me go up, so she continued to follow the group. She said she was a little concerned that she couldn't find me, but she trusted that the dive master was taking care of me. She didn't realize that I was snorkeling directly above her. I just continued to follow her until she was ready to surface. I never lost sight of my dive buddy, even if she didn't know where I was.
All in all, it was super fun. It was a little more work than a boat dive, because we had to swim out from the shore, but it was still really cool. We had planned to snorkel at Tunnels Beach after our dive was over, but we were much more tired than we had anticipated, and we realized we wouldn't see anything snorkeling that we hadn't already seen diving.
So instead of snorkeling after diving, we went back to the condo and took a nap.
Naps are a great part of Hawaii too.
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