It’s birthday vacation time and this year things were a bit different. We had a change of plans at the last minute and therefore we did not have time to do any planning. So on Tuesday night we are at Karen’s house trying to figure out where we wanted to go. One option was an…
We wanted to spend our last day doing something fun, so we decided to take a snorkeling cruise. We picked Blue Water Rafting because they use zodiac boats. This type of boat holds about twenty-four people as opposed to seventy-five people on the other large boats. The trip was awesome. The first thing that made…
After two days of early mornings, we decided that we should sleep in and boy did it feel good. Since it’s our last full day here, we thought we should hit one more beach. We stopped at Safeway to pick up some sandwiches before heading to Palauea Beach, between Wailea and Makena. This beach is…
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 7:00am. Before heading into the water, he gave us the basics of kayaking (how to get…