Lulu in Honolulu by Elisabeth Wolf

Author:Elisabeth Wolf
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2014-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

SCENE 11: UNDERWATER

EXT. WATER’S EDGE, HANAUMA BAY—MONDAY MORNING

Hanauma Bay, a horseshoe-shaped bay, used to be the private fishing spot for the Hawaiian royal family. More than 30,000 years ago, coral reefs formed here, and so this safe bay became a natural home for zillions of colorful fish and animals. But after hundreds of years of fishing, Hanauma Bay was turning into a fishy ghost town. Now, the whole bay is protected. The fish and everything living are safe to swim, crawl, wiggle, and not be caught.

The Ohana Camp kids gather around Uncle Akamu and Auntie Moana. The kids are decked out in bathing suits, snorkel masks, and flippers. Lulu, of course, wears her SPF 50 pants and shirt over a bathing suit and a bathing cap squeezed over her wild, shaggy hair.

KENNA

(to Lulu next to her)

Is it true that snorkeling here is like swimming in a fish tank?

LULU

I’ve never been in a fish tank, but I think it’s like swimming in a warm bathtub.

UNCLE AKAMU

Keike, listen. My three rules and then you go with the fish. Ekahi, one: buddy system in the water. No one swims alone. Elua, two: don’t step on the reef. You’ll slice yourself AND crunch any living thing you step on. And ekolu, three: absolutely NO opala, no trash of any kind, on this sand or in the water. That means no bathroom in this living underwater palace.

KAPONO

What if I have to, ummmm, go?

He lifts his leg, pretending he’s a doggie making a pee.

AUNTIE MOANA

You take off the flippers and walk on your big feet to the restrooms.

Kids chuckle.

LIAM

I have a question.

(looks at Lulu)

What happened with you and Watson on your parents’ movie yesterday?

Lulu looks at Noelani who shakes her head no. Liam notices.

LIAM

Noelani didn’t tell me. Khloe’s mom knows my mom and told her about it.

Lulu slunks onto the sand.

LULU

Geez peas. You guys, I was just helping my mom by writing down names of plants and trees on location when Watson took off. He crashed up the set.

KENNA and KAPONO

Uh-oh!

NOELANI

(to Lulu)

And he drenched the actress.

LULU

Yeah. He made the lead actress spill coffee on her ball gown.

Ohana kids shake their heads sadly.

LULU

The worst part is, I really just wanted to help. Seas the Day isn’t going too well and I keep making everything worse.

MALEKO

(drumming on his fingers on his snorkel mask)

Hey. Lulu. Don’t feel bad. I get in trouble, like, all the time for stupid stuff.

Heads nod.

Kids start chatting at once. Everyone has a story about causing mischief and getting busted.

HUUROOO. The sound from Uncle Akamu’s conch shell gets their attention.

UNCLE AKAMU

Now, let’s go swimming!

The kids scramble toward the water. Lulu, in her flippers, moves like a duckling taking its first steps. Uncle Akamu walks among the kids and explains habits of certain fish and where they might be found in the bay.

LULU

I want to see a turtle!

UNCLE AKAMU

Honu, the sea turtles, are shy and rare. Almost extinct. Hard to see.

Lulu SPLATS onto the sand just before the water. She’s so close that when the wavelets lap onto the shore, sea froth licks the top of her bathing cap.

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