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Bonus Photo!

Monday, April 9, 2012

Back on Day 85 we traveled through the Interstate H3 tunnels. Here is a neat view from up in the sky. (I didn’t find any attribution where I found this on the Interweb-thingie!) ~Curtis, back from Hawai’i! {!-{>

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Day 99: The Big Island Day One, pt 1

Saturday, April 7, 2012

A nice view of the Pride of America across the Yacht Basin from our Shore Excursion. The Rainbow Falls in Hilo. *** *** … …… … What’s for dinner! A closeup… More to come! ~Curtis in Hawai’i! {!-{>

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Day 98: Sunrise on the way to Hilo!

Friday, April 6, 2012

Two views of the sunrise as we approached the Big Island at Hilo. Both shot with a Canon Powershot SX100IS. More to come! ~Curtis in Hawai’i off the coast of the Big Island (Hawai’i)! {!-{>

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What I missed on Maui…

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Turns out that one of the three running railroads in Hawai’i is in Lahaina.  I think I hit the other two!   Okay, I saw another one (the Hawaiian Railroad Society on Oahu) and rode two others; I don’t know if the Dole Plantation Pineapple Express counts for one, and there is one at the […]

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Day 97: Leaving Maui in the Evening…

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Sometime after the whales ceased their show, we slowly left the dock to cruise on to our next stop. The thrusters that all of the cruise ships now have sure make docking and undocking look easy: no tugboats needed!  But they sure stir up a mess… This is the port arrival building we had to […]

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Day 96: A Whale of an Afternoon, pt 2

Thursday, April 5, 2012

The photos in this post are one series of shots I took.  In all I doubt it took ten seconds.  The photos are a bit grainy because of the sea-mist I was shooting through, the “high” ISO I had to use (500) and they are hand held.  The whales are several hundred yards away.  At […]

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Day 95: A Whale of an Afternoon, pt 1

Thursday, April 5, 2012

We decided to relax for the afternoon before the Boat departed, by sitting on our balcony and watching the ocean.  It wasn’t long before we sighted… (Click to enlarge; BACK to return!)   Yup!  Whales.  Right off our pier!  Of course, being on the 9th floor/deck helped… Note there are two whales.  It is near […]

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Day 94: Our Next Morning on Maui!

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

We got up entirely too early the next morning: 3:45am is when we had to be at the bus and off of the Boat! We were up at that unhappy hour to go to the very top of Maui, the Crater on top of Haleakala, to watch the sunrise! It was pretty neat, as you […]

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Day 93: Maui! pt 2

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Of course, more waterfalls! Another view: There isn’t much to do in Hana…it is just a great, friendly, remote place to live.  The road in was a burro trail until WWII.  It wasn’t paved until the 1970’s, and then only as one lane most of the time.  We had lunch at a nice gift shop […]

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Day 93: Maui! pt 1

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

The sun rose as we slowly cruised into Maui.  We had to get moving because we had scheduled a Road to Hana tour… Out on the road we started with a nice rainbow… Of course, rainbows frequently come with…rain…this is the little road we were on.  The Road to Hana comes complete with warnings against […]

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