Maybe tomorrow I will figure out how to snorkel. I wade ashore, go through a reef guidebook and then wade back out to a submerged rock and a placid, deep pool fully illuminated by the sun. In water clear as a snorkel mask's view, I see miniatures of many Hawaiian reef fish. The striped convict tangs are translucent when young. I startle a spotted boxfish out of a crevice and he goggles at me with his sideways eye.
Miniature butterflyfish startle with their banana yellow.
I even manage to step on a flounder buried in the sand. Sitting on my rock, my legs in the water, I am absorbed by the babies. They bump my legs, swirl around each other in what surely is play. Yes, there are stupendous sights like volcanoes and black sand beaches here. Yes, coconut palms, sunset with a green flash.