The search for sea turtles

Day 1-Today is the big day. Finally the moment we have all been waiting for: Hawaii. On Sunday we went snorkeling hoping to see an sea turtle. We didn’t see one but we saw a lot of great tropical fish, and on the boat we saw four bottled-nosed dolphins. On Monday we went snorkeling again hoping to see sea turtles. The first time we went out we had no luck. When we talked to my dad he said some people saw sea turtles in a different part of the beach. And not only did we see a sea turtle but we also saw a eel. Later we saw two more sea turtles in shallow pools. Here are some of the pictures we took.

Science: Some common fish I saw was: raccoon butterfly fish, convict tang surgeonfish, yellow tang surgeonfish, porcupine pufferfish, bullethead parrotfish and black durgeon triggerfish.

The type of sea turtle we saw was the green sea turtle. When we saw the first one he was just drifting along but the other two were eating algae.

Social studies: When on a boat we went to the James Cook memorial where he died. Cook was a explorer in the late 1700s and was greeted by 10,000 Hawaiians in 1,500 boats.