The Family Vacation 2007 - the Big Island of Hawaii. We stayed just south of Kailua Kona in Keahou. Enjoy our pictures!
First Sunset from our Lanai
First Morning - View from the Lanai
More Views
Still more...
View looking north
The living room of the unit from the Loft
More views
Breakfast on the lanai
Austin and Lauren Poolside at the Unit
Ocean activity as viewed from the Lanai
Cruise Ship in Kona Harbor
Fishing boat
Cruise Ship heading to Sea
Another Sunset
Another fishing boat
Another Sunset
Kanaloa at Kona from the Sea
On Our Way to Kealakakua Bay
First View of Kealakakua Bay
More of Kealakakua
Captain Cook Monument
Coast Guard watching
Team Meeting!
Another Cruise Ship
Porpoises at South Point
South Point Moorings
Really!
Southernmost Point in the United States
The ocean in a lava tube
Looking back at the Island from South Point
The Road to South Point
The Windward Side
Read Carefully!
The beach
Checking it Out
Rougher Water than Kona
The Lagoon behind the beach
The Boys at Volcano House
Looking across the caldera to the rift zone
The end of the caldera with Manua Loa in the distance
Halema'uma'u Crater from Jaggar Museum
Volcano House from Jaggar Museum
Warning about the native bird
A REAL Nene
More Nene
Halema'uma'u Crater
Looking across the Halema'uma'u Crater
Another view across the Halema'uma'u Crater
Another world...
The boys at Halema'uma'u Crater
Kiluea Iki Crater
Kiluea Iki Crater Elevation
Hilo Harbor
Remember this ship...
Hilo Harbor
Akaka Falls
Akaka Falls with the boys
The Rainbow at the end of our day!
More Watercraft
Local Fisherman from our Lanai
Local Fisherman Continued
Another Local Fisherman
One more try!
More Watercraft from the Lanai
Austin Supervising Tri Tips on the BBQ
Another Sunset
Another Sunset - with a Cruise Ship
Another angle...
Ourtigger Race!
Here they go...
...off to Kona
Dinner at the Bar and Grille
Fishing day!
The boys catching rays, not fish!
Lauren doing the same...
The only thing we caught - bait!
They're sitting up this time!
Sunset after a day of fishing
Papa Tutu and Lauren
Where are the boats...
...no sign of watercraft...
...because Hurricane Flossie had come to visit!
Last Breakfast in Kona
Last Sunset...
...before we left for the airport...
...to return home.
Portugese sausage and scrambled eggs!
There were about 3 per week during our stay
The signs at Black Sands Beach
The sand was very fine and soft
You will see it in Kona Harbor in the morning!
Continuing the saga in front of our lanai!
Here a local fisherman tries his luck against the reef fish, and the ocean, throwing his net in...
...and recovering it
Prying an Opii off of the lava rock. Opii, the Hawaiian name for limpet, is a mollusk with a hard round shell about the size of a quarter.
The condo we stay at in Kona has a restaurant on the property, and we ate there at sunset on our last Saturday.
A view of the Hualalai Volcano that rises over Kona.
This Aku, or skipjack tuna, is what is used as live bait for Marlin.
Our last dinner in Kona - at the Kona Inn
Fortunately, Kona was left untouched by wind or rain.
Portugese sausage and scrambled eggs
Aloha
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First Sunset from our Lanai