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Spotted a Spotted Eagle Ray, Kahalu’u
We started out the day by going to Keoneele Cove by the Place of Refuge on the Big Island of Hawaii. Because of the dangerously rough surf, we couldn’t get in the water. We’ve never seen it like that. There were three people fishing at Two Step (the place where the divers and snorkelers enter the water).…
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Water Child
I wanted to share what I felt as the dolphins were swimming around me, disappearing into the blue depth then reappearing. I felt immense gratitude and peaceful joy. It was the satisfaction of a journey completed. It seemed so little to say about an event so special, that I knew I had to share the journey to explain the feeling.…
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Honaunau Bay Naia (Spinner Dolphins of Two Step)
We headed off for another day of snorkeling at Two Step. Two Step is an unofficial name for a small county park on the edge of Honaunau Bay. Pu’uhonua Honaunau, the place of refuge, sits on one side of this bay. Here also is the Keoneele Cove, essentially a boat ramp into the bay and…
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The Southernmost Point in the US
Today, Bill turned 52. Today, we drove from Kailua-Kona to South Point and beyond. Pass the Black Pebble Beach in South Kona Pass the zebra , donkey, and buffalo. Pass the horses and windmills. We stood on the cliffs at the most southern point of the US. With it’s strange gallows like contraptions, whose block and…
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Traveling Boxes
June 14, Thursday: Today I’ve been writing. Bill’s been working on videos and photos this morning, so we were here when more of the packages that we mailed ourselves arrived. I think there are only a couple more boxes coming. We should have labeled what was in each box, so that we only had to…
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Reef Shark at Keoneele Cove
June 13, Wednesday morning we went to our “manta ray place” in Kahauloa Bay, but the water was too rough, again. So we headed back to the Keoneele Cove (Two Step). We parked across the street from the cove on the Catholic church grounds and carefully read their signs to make sure we could have animals…
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Painted Church in Hawaii
The Painted Church, in Captain Cook, Hawaii is a must stop. The Painted Church Exterior 2012 Built in 1898 and painted from 1899 to around 1904 by is definitely worthy of a trip. Our favorite part was the painting of the arches. The church is an easy drive on one of my favorite streets simply called…
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Traveling with Dogs to the Big Island of Hawaii
Bill, Rachel, Frisky, and Toto from the day before. It took two days to prepare to leave San Jose, California for the Big Island of Hawaii. Well it took months, but it took two days to pack for the flight. We’d purchased a luggage scale to help with the process. There was much shuffling of…