No joke there, when i was out there i was swimming about waist deep, and saw something coming up, at first i thought it was sea garbage. Turned out to be a HUGE sea turtle. It stopped no more than 3' from me. I probably could have touched the thing had i wanted too.
We went right in the middle of whale season, You could park on the side of the road, and watch them all day. IF you sat in one place for 15 minutes your almost bound to see several. We also took a catermaran out on a whale watching tour. A mother and her calf were by us for quite a long time. AT one point the calf was real close to the boat.
Pearl Harbor was quite the place too. I never realised how big that wall actually was at the Arizona. Much bigger than the TV makes it seem. Quite Sad
Baby whale breaching