Category: Travelling
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A Perfect Day

How do you describe a perfect day? For one thing, you don’t take many pictures because you are too busy absorbing it all. Sorry about that. The perfect day began with a snorkel trip over to the Captain Cook monument in Kealakekua Bay. Here’s the monument. Eight years ago, you could just rent a…
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Volcano by day, volcano by night

Just a quick note as I drink my 100% Kona coffee…Friday night, we went to a Luau. The dancing was amazing. Took lots of little movies that I will post….eventually. Yesterday, we took an all day tour to the Volcano. Didn’t want to drive it was the main reason but,…
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Two-Step

Near the Place of Refuge south of Kona is a popular diving and snorkling spot called Two-Step. And it is a beautiful place to go. The water is warm and crystal clear. The fish are being fish, munching on the coral or cleaning turtles. And the water is that blue…
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Hilo, There And Back Again

We didn’t really visit Hilo, other than Hilo Hattie’s which is “The Store of Hawaii.” At least that’s what their tagline says. I like Hilo Hattie’s. I like Hattie. She must have really had some entrepreneurial spunk. Our plan was to visit a botanical garden. And we did, not the one…
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Petroglyphs and Porpoises
Over the past couple of days, Mr. Al and I’ve been exploring here and there. We walked about on the King’s road. Thought we’d do a six mile round trip hike to the petroglyphs. However, after walking and crunching along in the wind and heat (willing our ankles not to…
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Whale Watching with Adventure X

Check out this website: http://jupiterfoundation.org You can listen to the singing whales live and uncensored. I’m listening to them now. They sound alien and rather peaceful in their alien sort of way. As I mentioned previously, there’s been high surf for about a week, here. Wintertime and all. Little did I…
