Day 3 - Ocean is not my friend

The Napali Coast Snorkel excursion nearly killed me. I spent 4 hours of the 5 hour cruise puking my guts out. I'm not sure what was coming out cause I skipped breakfast. It was all very unexpected. The first mate said I was a shade of green he'd never seen. I have never been sick on a boat and I've sailed on everything from small outboard motor boats to cruiseships in everything from calm to 6 foot waves. Never a twinge. Damn catamarans. Or maybe I should thank god that I was in the 49foot boat and not a zodiac... at least if you puked out the back of the boat you weren't inconveniencing anyone. In a zodiac, depending on where you sat, you could conceivably bath everyone in your vomit.... yeah... thank the lord for catamarans.

Days highlights in no particular order:

• TERRA FIRMA - I can't say enough about dry land. It's the bomb.
• Saw spinner dolphins sleeping - unfortunately no spinning in action
• Nearly got rear ended by a turtle snorkelling - either it wasn't watching where it was going or I looked enough like a wounded albino monk seal in the water it was coming to check me out
• Finally some feral cats - a whole family of them (mother and three kittens) so cute. 

NOTE TO SELF: Avoid boats for the rest of the trip. While, You have identified a special talent for projectile vomiting far enough out that puke doesn't touch the side of the boat (the first mate was impressed), I'm not sure juice is worth the squeeze.

NOTE: Convenience store steamed pork in leaves thingy was not bad. I bought it due to desperation. I needed to eat something for dinner, I was lightly covered in vomit, and I didn't feel like going back out to eat. Thankfully, I didn't die of salmonella and, in fact, it was actually tastier than the one I had at the ultra expensive luau last time I was on the Big Island.

My horrible photo of a Spinner Dolphin.

Napali Coast. Beautiful but literally vomit inducing.

View off the back of the boat where I spent
most of the cruise. Ahh good times.