The day started a bit drizzly but as we got going we saw a
mixture of sun, drizzle, more sun, etc. At least it was warm so no toque,
mitts, boots and we don’t have to shovel it. We had the air conditioning on all
day in the car.
We found ourselves commenting on the names of places and
streets – Napoopoo, Kealakekua, etc. Found us laughing about the simplicity of
our street and area names. Sure is simpler at home. Could use some of these
names in our scrabble game when we find ourselves with too many vowels – oh,
I forgot, can’t use proper names.
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| Basking Green Sea Turtle |
Started our morning at Kaloko-Honokohau Park and after a
short walk to the ocean and along the lava rock in the water – it was low tide –we
were able to see the big sea turtles basking on the rocks. When Doug was asked
to ID the seaweed the answer was “short stubby green stuff”. Now does that
sound like his usual? – maybe he is losing it with this retirement thing! This
is also where the indigenous people created large fish traps so when the tide
went out the fish would be trapped in the rocks for easy of catching. A few people
were here snorkeling.
Drove further south along the coast through Kona thinking we
would see how far we could get. Stopped
at one of the numerous roadside parks for a nice picnic lunch.
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| Painted Church |
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| Tropical flowers are very showy |
We eventually found ourselves on a very winding back road to
an interesting painted church. Lovely oranges just rotting on the trees so Doug
borrowed one for us to try – delicious. From there we found another national
park across the bay from the Captain Cook monument, which is appears only boat accessible.
Stopped at the Kona Farmers Coop and tasted the best macadamia nuts and Kona
coffee. Also had to sample the chocolate macadamia nut ice cream!
Tonight we are going out for Mexican food -
$2.00 taco night at the golf course restaurant.
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