Morning of Easter
2019年4月21日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Sunrise and eggs
Lava Tube!
2019年4月21日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Just got out of the lava tube! No lava left, but after making the tube like a little underground river, the lava drained out leaving a labyrinth of tunnels. Nicholas and I kept Caroline’s heartもっと詳しく
On the road up Mauna Kea
2019年4月21日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
We’re going up the mountain. Visitor centre at 9000 feet, summit around 14,000 if we go that high.
Telescopes at the top
2019年4月21日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
So cool to see all the research telescopes.
Sunset at the top
2019年4月21日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Worth the wait
Science
2019年4月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
So we’re driving home from our trip to the summit of Mauna Kea and we start hearing weird noises in the car, like of something breaking or being crushed. Turns out it was the water bottles that weもっと詳しく
Under the Sea
2019年4月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
We all live in a yellow submarine....in Kona!
New digs
2019年4月22日, North Pacific Ocean ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
New place for the evening. And a visit to the nearby waterfront.
Two Step
2019年4月23日, North Pacific Ocean ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Our first snorkel of the trip
Coffee Shack
2019年4月23日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Kona Coffee, ono, luau bread, coconut pie etc etc
Also an avocado tree next to the lenai.
Underwater!
2019年4月23日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Got the old Olympus camera wet for the first time at Two Step beach.
Captain Cook Monument
2019年4月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
We hiked down to the monument and some of the world’s best snorkeling. The hike was gruelling, at 2.5 miles each way, traversing 1200 feet of elevation. We were saved by a kind couple who gave usもっと詳しく
Coffee Farm
2019年4月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
A tasting at/ with Heavenly Hawaiian Coffee Growers. We tried 4 types of coffee...all wonderful:)
Pearl Harbour Part I
2019年4月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
After our flight, we looked at the weather forecast. Later in the week it predicted rain, and right now it was 85 and sunny so we decided to visit the USS Bowfin submarine at Pearl Harbour.
Submarine Museum
2019年4月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
N took many photos. Here are a few.
North Shore
2019年4月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Just arrived at the North Shore of Oahu.
Dinner at Haleiwa Joe's
2019年4月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
While walking to find something to eat, a lady stopped us on the side of the road and complimented my (Peter) colourful shirt. She then welcomed us to the North Shore and introduced herself as Auntyもっと詳しく
Pearl Harbor Part 2
2019年4月26日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
USS Arizona Memorial and Mighty Mo
Mighty Mo
2019年4月26日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Touring the decks. Admiring the big guns.
Sunset
2019年4月26日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Walking along the beach park.
Pacific Aviation Museum
2019年4月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Pearl Harbor Part 3
We took a tour called the ‘Aviators Tour’ which gave us a guide (Mike) and access to a second hangar that still had bullet holes from original Pearl Harbour attack. We sawもっと詳しく
旅行者Tom Cruise was not there, however our tour guide had a pic of Tom. His wife works at Lockheed Martin and she told him the story of some hotshot arriving in a P51 Mustang (WWII fighter plane) which turned out to be Tom Cruise arriving to try the F35 flight simulator to prepare for Top Gun II.
Shrimp truck, shave ice, sunset.
2019年4月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Food truck was on our to do list, followed by Matsumoto’s shave ice (shaving machine shown). And an awesome sunset.
Laniakea Beach
2019年4月28日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Where the layson turtles beach and sun. We saw 5 altogether, the pictures are all of Oakley: adult male 35 yrs old.
On a quest for nesting albatrosses!
2019年4月28日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Caroline and I abandoned Nicholas at the condo and went for a 5km hike to see an albatross at Ka’ena Point, which is in a protected (from predators) wildlife preserve. We saw dozens includingもっと詳しく
Surfin Safari
2019年4月29日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
This morning the three of us took a two hour surfing lesson. Since we all went, we have no pictures. Nicholas did the best of all of us and was standing up pretty good by the end of the lesson. Turnsもっと詳しく