Our work for today wasn’t too exciting – basically we had to
do the same as yesterday but on the other side of the driveway, all the way to
the back of our house. After work we decided to go to the beach Cameron had
shown us on our first day here, called ‘Two-Step’ (named so because to get
into the water you go over two natural steps in the rocks). We ran into Cameron on our way out and he
kindly offered to lend us two of his snorkel sets and drove us all the way
there as well. As we were approaching the beach we saw lots of people staring
out towards the water where we soon also saw a few dolphins jumping about. When
we got into the water they seemed to have left but we weren’t too bothered
since dolphins seem to be quite a common occurrence here and I’m sure we’ll
have our chance to see them soon. We snorkelled about for a while across the
bright green molten-looking corals and I somehow managed to get washed up
somewhere completely different from the two steps I’d gotten in at, getting rather scratched up in the process.
Sarah was in the water for a long time while I chilled on a
lava rock by the beach and read a bit of ‘Shark Dialogues’ (I realized I have
not read a single page of this book while not at a beach, maybe I should
make a tradition out of that). Finally the sun was setting and we headed to the
street to hitchhike, where we were soon picked up by a friendly young girl with
a car full of random clutter who drove us all the way to our house. We dedicated
the evening to our usual activities but suddenly both Sarah and I were gripped
with a mad appetite for chocolate that took over our minds so much that we
decided to go out into the darkness and hitchhike to the closest store, the one
we’d been to yesterday that had no screw-top wines. We stood at the road for a
long while with no-one picking us up and finally we remembered as well that the
guy from the shop had mentioned it closing quite early yesterday, so we
returned home empty-handed and dejected. Remembering similar situations
from university life we spent a long while then trying to find chocolate delivery
services in Hawaii but even our trusted friends Pizza Hut and Dominoes did not
deliver to places this far out so we finally gave up and made beans on toast
instead, while watching some episodes of ‘An Idiot Abroad’, which were quite
entertaining despite the titular idiot being quite an ungrateful bastard most of the
time.
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