Hawaii

Hi There! Today’s post is written by the birthday girl … yup, the big Hawaii 5-0 birthday has finally arrived. We were awake today at 3:00 AM, so that we could leave the condo by 4:00 AM.  Destination … summit of Haleakala.  Dorothy drove for about 1.5 hours in the dark, along many, many switchbacks, until…

One of the things that we wanted to do in Hawaii was to go kayaking.  We decided to take a whale watch/snorkelling tour with South Pacific Kayaks.  We met up with Mike who was our guide at Makena Landing at 7am.  Before heading into the water, he gave us the basics of kayaking (how to get…

Since I’ve been awake each day before 7am, I decided I would take advantage of that and go down to the beach in front of the condo to get some sunrise pictures.  There were actually quite a few people out on the beach at that hour.                     We…

We got an early start today, just after 8am.  You need to do that to beat the traffic when taking the road to Hana.  The trip to Hana takes you over 59 bridges, around 600+ curves and is approximately 42 miles.  The trip is not about the destination but is about the journey. Our first…

You cannot believe how loud the waves are in front of the condo.  You could say that they are thunderous.  With all the windows open at night, sometimes it sounds like a huge wave is coming right through the condo. When we were at the swap meet yesterday, one of the vendors told us that…