Snorkelling off the black sands of Richardson's Beach, Big Island, among coral swirls, tang and wrasse, I was confronted with a snappy turtle trying to haul itself onto rocks to sun itself.
Now the proper way to greet a turtle is to raise a flipper in recognition as bus drivers do the world over on approach, and then gracefully ignore each other and swim away.
How not to greet a turtle is to do the following: hyperventilate into your snorkel, flap your flippers in panic, scare the bejeezus out of each other, surface at the same time, check each other out, decide simultaneously that each is ugly but harmless, and then gracefully swim away.
(Richardson's Beach, Hilo, Big Island, Hawaii, 2011)
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