| 3/30 -- I decided to post some more
photos from Joy's birthday cruise. Reflecting back on
that day I feel truly lucky. To head out on to the
Hawaiian waters riding atop a boat carrying extremely
cool people, as whales, dolphins, Mahi Mahi frolicked
around the craft, was a rare and unbelievably remarkable
experience.
One of the more humorous events of the day was the beer run. I doubt I will ever see such a run again. The owner of the vessel had a penchant for Coors Light. As the day started to wind down, he realized he had none left. Joy volunteered to procure some more for him. He took her up on the offer. Lahaina bound we were. The boat did not have the necessary papers to dock there, so anchoring offshore was necessary. Joy and her friend Autumn grabbed a surfboard and kicked to shore. |
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| Hurry please! |
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| They are made great speed. |
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| Wow! That was quick. |
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| Notice Joy (in the rear) is only wearing flippers. She walked wet and barefoot into the store with the flippers in her hand in case they chastised her for lack of foot ware. |
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| Coors Light! A successful mission. |
| 3/28 -- It looked to be a promising and
windy day on Kitebeach. I had visions of testing out my
recently purchased 5-meter kite. Imagine our surprise
when we walked on the beautiful, calm, sandy beach in
front of a lake-like body of water. As we sat down on
the sand and gazed across the beautiful, serene,
blue-green water, we figured it would pick up...
eventually. I headed out on the 7 meter. Well there is
something to be said for being right. Pick-up it did. I
like to kite on the water and practice random jumps off
the waves. I don't like flying over the water with
random touchdowns. I returned to shore to test the 5. Which in hindsight is pretty funny. Where did my love of flying go anyway? When I was a child, I loved the idea of sailing through the air. I remember tying a thick towel around my neck and jumping off a tall, diving board. Surprise! My attempt at flying failed. As I, plus the towel secured around my neck, plunged into the water, I was, one a little surprised I didn't fly. Two amazed how heavy a wet towel can be. Paddling frantically to stay afloat, I wondered why I didn't contemplate that part of my plan. I guess age is good for something. |
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| John took out his favorite kite, the 9-meter. He is pumping it up in the photo. I decided to practice a lesson from thePioneerwoman on using the hard light feature in Adobe Photoshop. Above is the original image. |
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| I applied the hard light filter with 70 percent Opacity. |
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| Here it is at 100 percent. I think I need to master the "correct" images in which to test this little feature. |
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