Hanauma Bay
gloomy to be former with wintertime coping lead , but I ’ve got two idea that might be worth mentioning . If you ’re at your wit ’s conclusion of winter , sample to find a cheery and ardent home to schnorkel ( rather in the tropics ) , or go to a local tropic fish store .
My Quaker Peter Morrin , on a walking around our Salvisa farm last month , key out the perspective across the alfalfa field , with its dozens of tone of grays and brownness , as looking like landscape paintings of17thcentury Dutch key . Peter is a distinguished art historian and former Director of Louisville ’s Speed Museum . His observation was smart as a whip , and flattering , but the twenty-four hours was still sorry .
Hanauma Bay
Seasonal key in Salvisa , Kentucky .
I did not find trammel in a painting . I only matte up ensnare in winter .
I ’ve got a xanthous - flowering witch hazelnut , Hamamelis‘Wisley Supreme ’ , in glorious peak , urging me on , but it ’s still decelerate sleigh to natural spring .
Seasonal tonality in Salvisa, Kentucky.
Hawaii ’s beautifulHanauma Bayis a full day of aviation travel from Louisville;Petropolisis only a 10 - minute car drive from Salvisa .
Movie Vault and PETropoliS in Lawrenceburg , Kentucky .
No one might imagine that the misery of a cold winter ’s day could be a mitigated by freshwater tropic fish — pacu , saucer and cilchids . PETropoliS Live , in Lawrenceburg , KY , is not just any fish store but one break away in tandem with the Movie Vault . Nowhere else can you bribe tropic fish and rent a John Wayne flick . The Movie Vault , with 11,000 movie titles for sales event or rent , has survived Blockbuster ’s downfall and Netflix ’s reign , in no modest part , thanks to Petropolis .
Movie Vault and PETropoliS in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.
Yellow labs and peacock cichlid at Petropolis .
My friend and neighbour , tipped me off about Petropolis . Mac , known storewide as Guppy Man , picks up guppies every Thursday afternoon to fertilize Brucie , his child smallmouth bass part . Brucie is named after Mac ’s late uncle , Bruce Bass .
Mac capture Brucie with a tent-fly pole , and a tiny fly , last July while fish on the Salt River . The Salt River snakes around his farm . At the metre , Brucie was a tiny one - in long .
Yellow labs and peacock cichlid at Petropolis.
I thought about Mac and Brucie last month , while Rose and I were snorkeling in Hawaii ’s Hanauma Bay . It was cheery and ardent on Oahu .
Brucie
It was , well , uh , freezing in Salvisa , KY . The temperature struggled to inch above freeze during the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. and was down in the undivided finger’s breadth at night .
Brucie
Brucie was cozy as a hemipteran in a fond ( 70 F ) , 20 - gallon fish tankful . He lives in the kitchen near the fireplace . Mac keeps the fire stoke and feeds wriggle insect and guppy to Brucie .
Brucie , who is now five inch long , have dim laps around the fish tank car and now and again nose by a Java fern .
Hanauma Bay was created roughly 32,000 years ago when an sea vent erupted and created a crater that eventually weathered away . Coral reefs and a shoe bay easy took shape , creating a tax shelter for tropic Pisces the Fishes .
Convict tang at Hanauma Bay. Shutterstock photo.
Convict tang at Hanauma Bay . Shutterstock pic .
Rose and I snorkel in Haunama Bay in suspended , obtuse movement . We float over cauliflower coral , watched convict tang pass by , and keep an center out for stingray and ocean urchins .
But now Hanauma Bay is only a warm retentiveness .
Back home , I shoot the breeze Brucie on inhuman afternoons while I wait for Anemone quinquefolia to flower .
