With our trip being extremely last minute, and Hawaii being busy, just about every activity I called about was booked solid. But I found a discover scuba for two people and signed Kim and Hazel up.

When Hazel had gone to Catalina with me to do her open water class, she had trouble doing a regulator recovery. That skill involves taking your regulator out of your mouth and dropping it. Then you do this kind of sweeping motion to grab the hose, put the regulator back in your mouth, clear and start breathing again. She had struggled to find the regulator, panicked and bolted for the top. After that she was terrified to dive and that mostly shut down our weekend. When I asked her about diving in Hawaii and if she wanted to, tears came to her eyes. She was so scared. But she said she wanted to try.

Kim got SCUBA certified 12 years ago in the Cook Islands, and did maybe a dozen dives there, but then got pregnant. Since having kids she hasn’t been diving. She wasn’t confident to dive without me, and since we haven’t really had a vacation just the two of us, so that meant diving hasn’t happened for her. She was pretty nervous about diving as well. The night before she told me I should go instead of her.

But they were both brave, and did the dive. Hazel even did the regulator recovery skill. And they both seem to really enjoy the dive, which made me excited. Hazel was beaming when she came up and talking about what she had seen.

Margot and I snorkeled and saw them from above. The picture of them on the bottom they are in 35- 40 feet of water. I was snorkeling and dove down but couldn’t get their attention and that was as close as I could get without a weight belt.

Probably the last photos from our trip.