Rudy also brought two incredible wines, said he found them at Costco. The highlight was a La Fiole du Pape and also a dessert wine.
Rudy invited us to come out on his latest boat. We met at his house, drove up to Anini beach to use the boat put in there. Rudy wanted to get ice and the Kilauea Menehune Mart was out. They said we could wait an hour. Rudy went to the complex where Calvary Chapel North Shore is and got ice. I wandered into the church. Aunty Zena did not recognize me, but offered me food; angels unawares? I thanked her for her special sauce and she realized who I was; I got a hug from her and Peyton and headed back to the adventure.
He had invited three other people, truly interesting, very glad I got to meet them. Wes has been a pastor with Calvary Chapel Kauai, his wife Sarah appears to be wonderful, though we did not spend much time with them. However, the really interesting guy was their friend Chad. He was in a youth group Wes led, made a significant lifestyle conversion and oh my.
It was a fairly calm day, which means we didn't even get the stuffins knocked out of us, no blood, no bruises, though the potential is always there in a boat on the ocean around Kauai. It was low tide when we started. I don't care how many times you have boated Anini, at low tide you are going to hit some coral, however, we could not wait, Wes and Sarah have organized some sort of musical production tonight.
We finally cleared and started towards the Napali, we passed the beach at Hanakapiai and I am glad to report nobody was being swept out to sea; this time. We ducked into a couple caves and Wes and Chad were all for standing on the bow and having the waterfalls land on them, or swimming in the cave, climbing up the rocks to jump back in.
We came in close at the Kalalau beach and and a young man, Jake, swam out to meet us. He said his girlfriend had burned her feet walking on the hot sand and could not walk out. The folks on the boat were somewhat disbelieving, but I pointed out that a large population of the USA was diabetic and it is extremely common for them to have peripheral neuropathy where there is numbness in the feet. That population is at risk of things like this. We said we would get them on the way back and gave them plastic bags to put their stuff in and continued on and got to see the arch and open ceiling sea cave; good fun.
We stopped for lunch and swim snorkle at Nualolo, that was truly lovely. At the end, there was a bit of drizzle; as we would later learn we were turning from trades to South wind and VOG.
Back to Kalalau, there they were. Jake valiantly swam the first bag out to the boat. Kid had heart, but wasn't in shape to handle this. Enter the mighty Chad. He brought the other two bags aboard, one at a time. That is a lot of shore break to handle. Then he went back to help them bring the girl. The sea state was getting bigger, so Captain Rudy directed Wes to toss a line in so we could tow them out of the break zone. He also said to get them life jackets. I think that was brilliant. They made it aboard.
They wanted to be dropped off at Ke'e, but I know that beach very well. There is a channel, but it flushes into the open ocean. So Chad tied all three of their bags together and swam them in OVER the reef, just before the surf breaks. Wes and Jake swam the girl to shore. Life jackets were now getting popular as people got tired. Chad and Wes swam back to the boat. We came back to Anini as quickly as possible, but the sea state was increasing. I think Wes may have been a bit late for their musical adventure, but it was for a good cause.
After it was all over we spent some time with Rudy chatting and petting his dog and cat. Then the VOG got me. Tonight we are sleeping in the bubble and we will go from there.
Gotta say it is always an adventure with capt. Rudy! Happy you guys got out again.
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