Today is an eerie calm before the storm, due to hit Maui softly this afternoon. Maui's southern neighbor, Big Island has flash flood and winter weather advisories, with up to 3-5" snow expected on the summit of Mauna Kea, which appropriately means White Mountain.
I finally got flat and calm waters on my morning kayak session. Quiet waters they were not. The song of a humpback whale could be heard above water as I sat in my kayak. Sure enough, when I dove in, the song vibrated my belly it was so loud. The heard but not seen nearby singer sounded like a creaking squeaking gate in a barnyard, as secondary sounds from him or others were a cacophony of barnyard animal sounds.
I launched from Cove Park and paddled past the hydrophone buoy of www.whalesong.net. If you were listening this morning from 8:30-10, you heard the same whale live. Tune in now, see if the same song is playing. Do you agree that sounds like a squeaky gate in a barnyard?
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