Jet Skiing in Kaanapali

Jet Skiing in Kaanapali with our girls was awesome! We drove up to Kaanapali and parked at Hanakao’o Beach Park (aka: Canoe Beach). After walking past the canoes parked on the beach, we found the red umbrella and red cooler in the sand labeled Pacific Jet Sports. The very nice girl that checked us in looked about 16 and the guy that drove the motorized raft out to the dock wasn’t much older than that. Twin b thought he had a great job shuttling customers back and forth all day and asked if she could do that job when she was in college. My response knowing full well this too shall pass, “maybe for a summer job.” We climbed into the raft and thank God I knew what to expect because there were no instructions as to what the little girls should do once aboard the raft; clearly this guy had a schedule to keep. In the blink of an eye and as if I was on automatic pilot; I quickly positioned the twins sitting down twisted forward with their hands gripping the rope in front of them. The young man gunned the motor and up went the front of the raft over a wave and over the edge would have gone my daughter, had my arm not been around the small of her back gripping the rope myself.
Once at the dock we put on our mandatory life jackets and proceeded to become educated on the do’s and don’ts of safe jet skiing. The girls listened intently and after the exchange of who gets to go with Mom /who gets to go with Dad, we concluded we would switch passengers at the 30 minute mark.
We had so much fun! The hour went by so fast and although we lost a pair of sunglasses (my husband’s) we did manage to rescue my hat.
We finished up the day having a picnic at Hanakao’o Beach and watched 3 Sea Turtles near the shore.