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Monthly Archives: April 2012

Day 114: Dinner!

There was a great dinner included (it is a Luau, after all!).  It (dinner, hula and show) are all held in a big open air pavillion.  How big?  It has it’s own tree! It was done buffet style.  While there were a lot of people, we were called up by table and it went very […]

Day 113: The Luau Pre Game Show!

After the train ride we stayed for the Lu’au Kalamaku.  It is a fantastic theater show/luau, with good food, and open bar, a local craft market… …and dancing girls! (Okay, you’ve seen this one already: Lots more to come!) Lots of dancing girls!  Of all shapes and sizes!  There maybe a few dancing boys in […]

Day 112: Back to the Tracks!

Once again, we depart from our lovely, if very oversized, rowboat, to see the sites. The first thing we see is one of the few, if not only, bits of four lane highway on Kauai!  A Kakui nut lei. We have come to the Kauai Plantation to ride the train.  Afterwards there was also a […]

Day 111: Approaching Kauai

We approached the mountains of the Garden Isle with the beautiful light of the rising sun.  We docked in Lihue in front of the big yellow building on the right side of the photo. (Seven photo panorama: Click to enlarge; BACK to return!) Watching the morning arrive. Breaking water over the breakwater! A detail. Next: […]

Day 110: The Big Island Day Two pt 6

One last photo near the Church! They do seem to like their coffee on Kona… … …… … On the corner of Walmart… Of course, Harley Davidson. Finally, where we broke our silence on Facebook!  Internet was $0.40/minute (onboard the ship…it is free at the Kona Brewing Co.)!  We waited. A delicious pizza, with far […]

Day 109: The Big Island Day Two pt 5

“St. Benedict’s Painted Church was erected in 1899 by Father John Velghe. Without any professional training and using house paint on ordinary wood he beautified the church with his paintings. In those days few Hawaiians could read and so he taught with pictures-most successfully.” ~from The Painted Church Website… The road up to the church was so twisty […]

Day 108: The Big Island Day Two pt 4

The roads in Hawai’i, and on the Big Island in particular, are lined with flowers, often wild, but these are planted along the road. … …… … Pu`uhonua O Hōnaunau National Historical Park! “Imagine you had just broken the sacred laws, the Kapu, and the only punishment was death.  Your only chance of survival is to […]

Day 107: The Big Island Day Two pt 3

Here is the Pride of America. If you look close you can see us waving from our room….errr…I guess we aren’t…somebody had to take the photo… After a pleasant tour of this part of Kona, we arrived at: The Royal Kona Museum and Coffee Mill! It had a nice gift shop, a small museum, free […]

Day 106: The Big Island Day Two pt 2

A nice sunrise view of a fancy hotel, a couple of moored boats, and a small island… …the island seems to have a stage, a bar and boats! There was no dock for our Boat, so we had to tender in. It was fun, but I can see where it would be a pain in […]

Day 105: The Big Island Day Two pt 1

Sunrise over Kona! (Click to enlarge; BACK to return!) (A six shot panorama stitched together in PS Elements!) Curtis in Kona!{!-{>