High Tide

The tide is wending its way up the path to our front yard. It's as high as I've ever seen it, something that's probably related to the 40' swells on the North Shore of Oahu today. I went down for a dip this morning and it was another world. The tide obscured the shore I'm familiar with and the water was opaque with dirt and grass and other drifters displaced by the water's extreme incursion. My slippers even got dislodged from their post high up on a rock, though I found them both. And a school of little fish jumped out of the water, twice, right in front of me.