Maui sharks, paddling w/dolphins, Akaka Bill, DL's & coffee

Just all kinds of stuff going on right now, so had to form a title so I'd know what I was talking about this am. Yes, shark sightings in So. Maui. Had to close a few beaches this week. One was one of our favorites, Wailea's Ulua Beach. But locals think the hammerhead may be sick as it just cruises close to shore. People are even taking pictures of themselves by shore pointing at the shark as it's not being aggressive. Others are mentioning seeing it as they take there evening walks, very unusual. (Like the little squirrel that kept coming to visit Ethan and his friends under the swingset,very strange). Then today Ron finally went paddling with me and the rest of the Keauhou group. I had to go at least a month before we sighted dolphins but Ron saw them on his very first trip. What's up with that!! We have a breakfast after paddling on the last Thurs of every month so Ron got to meet some new friends. One was a longtime coffee farmer so he (Ron) liked soaking up all the info. We also met Lisa who is bringing her dog over from the mainland, although they only plan on living here about 7-8 months of the year. Since I miss Zeke so much we may work out a plan for us to dogsit 'Sparky'. Sparky is part Australian Speepdog and Blue Herder.
And we are now officially Hawaiians. That's because we passed the test. We have our DL's with our pictures and all. Only took us 4 hours yesterday. Then something I haven't formed an opinion on yet but I think is worth pondering. The US House passed the Akaka Bill yesterday which is a Hawaiian sovereigns law. Census says there are about 400,000 true Hawaiians in all the US and this law would give them approximately what the native Indians and Alaska indigenous people have. There is much controversy over the law here and in Washington, I guess. Because Geo. Bush says he will veto it if the Senate passes it. Bush says it would be racist and divide the very stable and ethnic society that we have here in Hawaii. I understand that, as ethnically things go very well here. But I can't see how we can say it is all right to give sovereignty to other peoples on their homelands and not the Hawaiians. Got opinions???