After the long wait, you are back !!!

On the second day on the Big Island, we felt so blessed to be able to swim with the spinning dolphins at Ho'okena beach. We kept coming everyday in the same week but did not meet any dolphins. We wonder whether they are tired of human after the intense interaction on that day. Like our past experience of seeing aurora, that we were blessed on the first sight but the luck did not maintain, we worried that this first encounter would be the last.

Finally after a long wait, we met the dolphins on the same beach 10 days afterward. The morning started from a sunny calm sea surface. We had the gut feeling that the dolphins came, thus started off quickly and arrived the beach at 7:30am. A few fins appeared in the bay. Yeah... here we came.

After an evening of hunting, they were very active and curious of human being and swam around us. At that time including us there were ten people. We picked some big leaves as the dolphins' toy. Some snorkelers seem to be familiar with them and swam well, thus they could swim around with the dolphins. As less competent swimmers, we just floated and waited for them to swim to us.

They surely like us, as there were several occasions that they swam to us among other people. It seemed that they knew about Zach and were very curious of him the new life. As the group of spinning dolphins also have younger members, they were very active and also followed their mothers from time to time.

One of them even swam in front of my face while I was attending to a further away dolphin group. I could hear the "click-click" sound from that dolphin before bumping to me. It seems that he was making fun out of me with a surprise.

The game they played was to pass a piece of leaf among each other, or showed their skill by putting a leaf from the beak, then to front fin and back fin. They took some of the leaves I brought from the site.

They were in the bay in the whole morning. Different group of people went to the water to meet them. Sometimes I was concerned that their rest and sleep would be bothered. In fact they need to rest (from around 10am to 3pm) before they went out for hunting again. If their rest was disturbed, their hunting and self-defense would be affected. According to the local marine-life guideline. People should keep a distance from the dolphins (half-the-football) so not to disturb them. When one can see them underwater, it means it is too close.

So we got too closed to them. As less-competent swimmers we went back ashore more shortly than other snorkelers. We hope that would minimize our disturbance by not staying in water for too long. We were there the whole morning and they still did not leave after 1pm.

Their swim was so gracefully relaxed and they kept their observant senses on us, both with their ultra-side and also with the spiritual sight from their eyes on us. It did not make sense to us why such spiritual being were hunted in other part of the world. Their presence in the water was so real and assuring that their energy extend to us in the same water space. That made me feel humble to them.

With such fulfilling experience, we found that Zach was calmer in the womb. Zach, glad to know that you like the dolphins and it seems that they like you too. Hope both of you can meet each other more.

好耐無見又出來同你遊水

上次喺天堂大島同旋轉海豚游水，已經過一星期，期間我們每天清早八九點就去到沙灘，但都不見他們踪影。心想會否和我們找北極光一樣，想看的就只是曇花一現，之後消失無踪?

我們相信Zach和海豚是有緣，如果唔係點會賜俾我哋呢兩個可以話去就去嘅父母，嘅坦桑尼亞同伊朗都見到海豚，而又嚟到大到呢度 ? 前一晚早啲上床，一早起身七點已見陽光普照，海面平靜清晰，心感如果我是海豚，也想出來伸展一下見見人。

急急吃過早餐收拾午餐及游水裝備，來到黑沙灘，已經見到一堆鰭喺不遠處游移。我們便急急熱身下水，並帶同佢哋喜歡嘅玩具：從沙灘邊大樹落下嘅大紅樹葉。

游到離岸一百米，旋轉海豚好像知道 Zach嚟咗，有一兩個有善海豚圍住我哋游大圈，又用眼睇我哋。要知道海豚用聲納已經辨明四周，讓我哋睇佢哋嘅眼其實係兩者靈魂接觸。其實係我哋人類愚拙，往往要用眼睇萬物嚟確定現實，睇唔到當無；但其他生物有其多元嘅感觀能力，而海豚就有聲納，可以感知天下非眼睇到嘅世界。佢哋嘅現實比我哋嘅豐富好多，而我哋自以為是認為我哋所看嘅先係現實。

海豚鍾意玩樹葉，我帶去嘅樹葉半浮喺水中，佢哋就用前鰭接住，一係傳俾其他海豚，一係由前鰭傳到背鰭又傳到尾鰭，好似自己玩拋波咁。

叫得做旋轉海豚，因為佢地鍾意跳出水面旋轉。我認為有一兩個鐘意我，而又特別活躍，係我前面跳水俾我睇。後來聽講啲小海豚特別喜歡跳離水係要整走身上寄生魚，但很奇怪地啲海豚媽媽又唔會幫嘅細路。睇嚟海豚媽媽比較忍心要嘅子女自己解決問題。

佢哋仲識整蠱我，當我集中精神影緊一對母子，突然我聽身後"click-click"聲，一隻小海豚喺我前面遊過及轉身。好似要俾個驚嚇我。

呢個黑沙灘係海豚嘅睡房，當佢哋喺夜晚打獵到天光，日出後兩三小時到翻房，臨睡前玩下，當然想唔想見人由佢哋決定。如果唔想見人，佢哋有呢一個睡房遠離人煙。這樣的生活較有尊嚴，唔似喺島上一間豪華酒店飼養海豚俾住客玩，被屈喺一個小小的水池，好似喺馬戲團或海洋公園度當小丑，極不尊重這智慧生物的尊嚴。

其實跟據當地保護動物指引，在這海豚休息的地方，人要和他們保持距離，否則缺乏休息會影響他們覓食及照顧子女。 所謂適當距離係至少有半個美式足球場咁遠，如果喺水底可以睇見佢哋，就已經係太近。所以我哋都會檢點一啲，每次落水睇唔會超過半個鐘，喺佢哋訓覺時間(約上午十時至下午三時)，就唔落水同佢哋玩。佢哋有啲比較心野，一見到有人就走埋去，唔理自己休息時間。 佢哋訓覺時仍然會游水，容易令人誤會仲好活躍，但係其實佢哋熄咗聲納，每次一邊腦袋休息而另一邊活躍，輪流休息。

當然有好多人唔知，喺佢哋訓覺時騷擾佢哋。

人就係咁自私，為私慾唔理其他。

活躍會面後一日, 開心又見到你們, 但你們已經睡了

和你們玩了一個早上，第二天我們再來到黑沙灘，見到你們仍在游水，立刻下水會一會你們。 點知你們的行為和前天不同，游得輕柔，較少單獨行動，一组往同一方向游。又唔玩樹葉，又唔旋轉跳水。

原來你們在睡覺！

當睡覺的時候，你們是關掉其聲納，只用眼着世界，所以在陽光普照時的沙底海中游，方便看見敵人。每次只有一邊腦睡覺，而另一邊腦仍然活動。一羣游水，由較年長的帶領方向，其他海豚就省得勞心。

我們浮着看他們，有一對母子游過來。其後就有一較大的從後游上，夾在我們中間，並瞄了我一下，好像對我說：「唔好咁近好喎。」跟着一起游走。

這是有尊嚴的活着，雖然要在殘酷的大自然覓食及面對天險，但是還比困在酒店和海洋公園的海豚小丑幸福得多。況且自然亦有其慷慨的一面：大大的海洋和魚，風和日麗的時候。

我們也不應騷擾你們休息，再見。希望後會有期。

和海豚的第一次邂逅

來大島是要讓Zach出世前和斯蒂信族做朋友，幸運的話佢地可以目暏甚至幫助Zach來這個世界。在這裏的第三天就到附近的一個有海豚出沒的好奧簡拿海灘。

很早出發，早上八時就來到沙灘。遇到奧地利女士莉莎。她不想獨自出海游水，找我們做伴。誰示知我們也初到貴境人加上不太熟習浮潛裝備人要擾攘一陣子才下水。其實老婆也不暗水性，看來是她照顧我們。

游出海不久，約一百米外已經看見旋轉海豚。莉莎提醒我們不要追海豚，因為只有越游越離岸。況且在游泳方面我們怎能和海豚相比？我們便在原處浮着等他們再游回來。約十分鐘後，一大隊旋轉海豚游回來。體形較小，有老有少，在我們周圍游。有一位伯伯帶了些大紅葉來，這是海豚的玩具，喜歡用前鰭掛着樹葉游。在水裏也聽到充滿叫聲和談天的。我們相信海豚們知道Zach的存在，不少在我們附近游，有些更跳出水面旋轉。莉莎好像和海豚建立關係，她潛入水中在其中一海豚身邊游，而這海豚也在她身邊竄。我們也希望有朝一日可以和海豚做朋友，讓其認識我們。

之後老婆發脾氣，只有我一個人出海會海豚。又回來了，還不斷跳出水轉；游過我的時候，我看到眼睛和我對望。這是對我的存在的認同，因為他們已知道我的存在，特別用眼睛看我，是要讓我和他們有眼神接觸。

之後游得久了回岸，看多一會他們的活躍，便回家了。其後還聽到他們臨走時一起跳出水面呢!

這次經歷太令我們興奮，沒有拿防水攝錄機，希望可以在會一會他們，讓你們一暏其靈性的一面。

The second day on the heavenly island

But is it really a heaven ?

Zach, I may not like you live on that. It links too much to material and consumption; it is also strongly americanized that most people do not eat healthily.

The second day we took bus to Waikiki beach. It was quite touristy: hotels were everywhere, nicely dressed tourists walked around, they lied on the beach to get high dose of carcinogenic UV light, stalls charged expensively on snorkel and surf-board rentals, waiters from hotels went to the beaches to serve customers lying on the beach-seats, restaurants on the ground floor of hotels facing the beaches served junk food like hot-dogs, pizzas and hamburgers.We walked along the beach to see people having their style of vacation, and got bored easily. The only scene that attracted us was the sea tortoises floating on the coast side. As commercial and populated as it is, the tourist spot is still survivable for wildlife. It is a comfort to us.

We then went to the traditional downtown and the chinatown, where the immigrants first settled and loaded stories and history of them. The aboriginal people compromised their lifestyle to the immigrants and became marginalized and minorized. As expected the mainland Chinese are conquering the chinatown, although we still overheard some Cantonese conversations.

We went out till dark and it was raining, thus had a splash by dining in a Japanese restaurant opened by Japanese immigrants. It has been here for 20 years. When honey had a chance practicing her Japanese, we had sushi that we dared not to in Hong-Kong and even Japan because of the nuclear incident. The fishes used were caught locally instead of imported from the spoiled land. Honey reluctantly avoided the sushi and ordered grilled butterfish. It is a local fish, tasted oily. She mistook it as butterfly fish that made her feel a bit weird. Only later when we had frozen yogurt did we found out that we had not eaten the more beautiful fish.

Going home late we did not know that Puna our host made us some laulau and poi. Many thanks to her we had special lunch in a secret concert next day.

A tourist day on the heaven island, it is not so bad as we imagined, if not count the food. Zach, how did you like it ?

在天堂島的第一天

Zack, 您都幾能耐，同阿媽飛大半個地球來到天堂島。在機上您時不時踢肚，但還算可以安定下來。

一到機場，太陽伯伯和海海風姐姐來歡迎我們。不像香港那樣濕淋淋，在這個自由的國度，自在的空氣自然滲進身體，我們看到人的發展及繁瑣，但面容是寬容的。

經過個多小時的巴士.走上斜路，到本地人般娜的家，其實她們家是沒上鎖的，可見這社區的安全，鄰居守望相助，只是我們感了不好意思地未得同意進屋。等了一會，媽媽芭芭拉來接我們。

和芭芭垃一起傾談，我們了解美國人感到自己的充權自主。當然還有官僚，但是沒有那種無力的窒息感。從我們了解香港的情况，她知道自已的幸福。她來自附近M島，丈夫有一農場，她可以時不時帶來土產，例如芋頭、木瓜、還有打獵來的鹿!

之後和她一起到超级市場買今晚及之後幾天的糧食。這兒的物價高，但物種豐富，當地出產的菠蘿、木瓜、薑、甚至當地做的豆腐 ! (當然味道不如香港吃的有豆味) 應有盡有，當然還有有機產品的選擇但價錢是雙倍。我們當晚弄了菠蘿雞和麻婆豆腐，家常小菜，兩母女吃得津津有味，覺得和之前吃的美式中菜有得大分别，後者多油多鹽，不及我們的清新健康。

當晚我們有點累，想早些睡，但她們為了要準備般娜的本土文化功課而煮Laulau。這是用葉包肉(鹿、牛或雞)和芋頭的焗餸，但她們嘗試蒸。芋頭很甜有鮮味，但肉本身有些過熟。葉味不多，反而像煮爛的菜。

老婆早早睡了。我就看她們造傳統菜，和她們分享我們的旅行相。她們介紹我們一年一度的舞蹈節 (Merrie Monarch Festival), 天堂羣島聚在大島首府競舞。

沒有甚麼參觀，但看到不少文化，期望在天堂島經歷更多。

Dear Zach

Again, thank you for coming to the world and welcome.

The warm womb shelters you from the chaos of the world. In the first few months of pregnancy we were still on the road. We visited the Romanian forest, ate the fresh mushroom there, met the Dracula, soaked in the Bulgarian hotsprings, enjoyed the breeze of Black Sea, bathed in Georgian sun on mountains, drank their wine, froze in Armenian's snow. We did many things that the anxious parents in Hong Kong avoid doing during pregnancy. We assum that you have all the reasons not to see the real world from your eyes and go back to heaven. You choose not to but to stay with us. You show us that you are brave. God makes you so brave and you learn from Jesus.

We had thought about giving birth in Hong Kong, but how it is now spoiled by the so-called "communist" makes us lose faith of the people there. Wishing that you will see good people and the great nature in the first encounter, we bring you to Hawaii. There are the cetaceans for you to reconnect with.

Giving birth in Hong Kong means that you will be treated as a screw in a social machine which is less developed and humane. We hope you can understand our arrangement, which is not common at home and it may involve some risks. There could be complications in birth; your post-natal time may not be comfortable as we haven't found a stable place yet.  We also confess to you that this arrangement originates from our adventurousness. There may not be enough consideration. However too much consideration also means over-anxiety. Many parents in Hong Kong are like that. They do not realize that no one can have perfect certainty of no-wrong in birth. It is also the reason that makes birth and life such a miracle.

Your miracle also involves a spiritual community respecting the nature and healthy lifestyle. It reconnects to the pulse of nature and the cetaceans. They are the intelligent being whom human owe a lot to because of ignorance and exclusivity. Please accept us for making this decision for you, but we are sure that you may feel our pulse in the womb when we feel the calling from the cetaceans and the nature and the ocean there.

God has been opening doors for us in the process. We have been seeing good souls helping us, keeping faith that God's creation and plan are the best for you and us.

We are looking forward to seeing you soon.

Love

your crazy mom and dad



PS  Thanks to Auntie Ally, we know more songs from people friendly to cetaceans. Enjoy.