Wednesday, day ten

This is basically our last day of real vacation. We fly to Honolulu on Thursday morning to see friends and fly home on Friday night. Any day that you have to get yourself and all your stuff to and from an airport isn't really a vacation day.

Novell needed O for the morning so we swapped our early morning beach hike for an afternoon one. I took a few pictures and did some packing while O worked. One of the cruise ships was offshore today.

Our cell phones don't work in the condo, but the internet is great. When he is working and talking to Boston at the same time, O sits on the lanai with his phone resting at the far edge of the table where it can pick up the signal. There's no electricity out there, so we've stretched the power cord from a living room outlet, through the door and over to the computer on the little table that we've scooted to the side to put a little slack in the cord. One perk- the best office view around!

This is the little beach beside the condos. Perfect for kids and families.
You can see our condo building in the last picture.

The Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park is just north of the boat harbor. There are the ruins of ancient villages, areas with petroglyphs and a coastal trail that goes out along the beach from a fish trap to a fishpond and then inland across some lava fields. We parked our car at the trail head side of the parking lot and headed out.

We started here

And walked along here

And through here

And looked at petroglyphs here

To get here

and here

and here (another perfect little beach for little kids)

Then walked to the far end of this beach

Passing birds like this

And this turtle

Before we looked at sea urchins in tidal pools

And then we turned back and retraced out steps. Before we left the park, we talked to a ranger who told us that the turtle is a repeat visitor to the beach. She is exceptionally large. Her shell alone is 38” long.

We went to Huggo’s again for dinner. I had a nice little Caesar salad with local baby romaine lettuce, just like last time. O always has the heirloom tomato and sweet onion salad. Huggo’s has lots of nice fish dishes and they are famous for their teriyaki steak, too. Last time I had fish served with a yummy Hamakua goat cheese polenta. This time I went for the teriyaki steak and asked our server, Francisco (from Santiago), if he could get it for me with the kabocha squash risotto instead of the steamed rice. He did and it was nice.

There was a vog haze that made the sunset very colorful.