Seascapes of Hawaii
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Living the Dream
Sigh......
BlunderWoman
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I was a military baby I was born there. But.. I've never seen it
jujube
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Ahhhh..... I love Hawaii (and the people) so much.
Hawaii became a state a few years after I went into Pearl Harbor as a sailor. We went to the beach one day and there were large volcanic boulders in the water just below the surface. Another day we took a tour of Oahu. Along the way we stopped and had the best pineapple that I have ever had.
On the way back to San Diego we had a problem with one of the diesels. We took it apart and fixed it while running on the other three engines.
On the way back to San Diego we had a problem with one of the diesels. We took it apart and fixed it while running on the other three engines.
Bobw235
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Have never been, but it's on our list of destinations. Maybe next year to celebrate our 40th anniversary.
jujube
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For my late husband's and my 25th wedding anniversary, we spent two weeks in Hawaii island-hopping. For a few days, we were on the Big Island and stayed at Volcano House. We had asked at the desk whether there was any lava action and were told probably not. But we decided to drive down the Chain of Craters Road anyway just to see. As we wound our way down, I kept seeing red spots on the mountain that I thought were tail lights of other cars, but when we got to the bottom we found that there was an active flow going on. There were quite a few people down there and everyone was walking confidently past all the "DO NOT GO BEYOND THIS SIGN" signs, so we went too. (My late husband AND the Spousal Equivalent both say that I have a death wish, but I just consider it an extremely adventurous nature and an utter disregard for warning signs.......obviously there's something absolutely marvelous over there that "they" don't want me to see and I'm bound and determined to see it, whatever it is...) Thank goodness we had a small flashlight with us as it was pretty darn dark and the terrain was pretty darn rough. Eventually we got so near to the lava that we could feel the heat. I'll never forget the "scream" of the lava flowing into the sea and the huge cloud of steam. It's something I had never expected in my life to get to see up close and I'm not ashamed to say that I got so emotional I cried like a baby.
After that, we went back to the hotel and got snockered by the fire that had been burning for more than 100 years (the fire was moved from the original hotel and was kept burning until the new hotel was built and then it was moved into the fireplace. Unfortunately, I hear that they let it die out on Jan 1, 2010 when the hotel closed for a few years for renovations. I don't know how they can let a tradition like that "die", can you? Over the course of the next couple of days, we hiked across the caldera and toured the lava caves. I always took a pinch of my dad's ashes with me whenever I went on vacation and scattered them (my father was the ultimate adventurer). We had heard that Madame Pele (the volcano goddess) liked silver and gin, so we had picked up a tiny bottle of gin. When we were out walking in the caldera, we stopped at a steam vent. I sprinkled my dad's ashes in the vent and my husband dropped a couple of times and poured the gin down there. He said, "Pop, here's some money and gin for the old gal. Maybe you'll get lucky tonight." I swear I could hear my dad laughing.
We also stayed on Maui for a few days and went to Kauai for a helicopter ride.
My mom and I had gone to Hawaii a few years before for a week and went on a one-day "flightseeing" trip from Honolulu to tour on the Big Island and Maui. We flew into a canyon and then turned around at the end and flew back. We were below the top of the canyon and at times it felt like I could reach out and touch the walls. My mother was not a happy camper. The pilot also saw a pod of whales and went into a dive to see them better. Mom fainted dead away. I don't think anybody could have ever got her into a small plane again.
I also took my granddaughter there for a high school graduation present in 2010. We climbed Diamond Head and I thought I'd die of exhaustion. Several little Japanese ladies that I swear were at least a hundred years old stopped to see if I was OK......they weren't even sweating or breathing hard. My granddaughter, on the other hand, ran most of the way up. Youth is wasted on the young.
I would be happy living in Hawaii.
After that, we went back to the hotel and got snockered by the fire that had been burning for more than 100 years (the fire was moved from the original hotel and was kept burning until the new hotel was built and then it was moved into the fireplace. Unfortunately, I hear that they let it die out on Jan 1, 2010 when the hotel closed for a few years for renovations. I don't know how they can let a tradition like that "die", can you? Over the course of the next couple of days, we hiked across the caldera and toured the lava caves. I always took a pinch of my dad's ashes with me whenever I went on vacation and scattered them (my father was the ultimate adventurer). We had heard that Madame Pele (the volcano goddess) liked silver and gin, so we had picked up a tiny bottle of gin. When we were out walking in the caldera, we stopped at a steam vent. I sprinkled my dad's ashes in the vent and my husband dropped a couple of times and poured the gin down there. He said, "Pop, here's some money and gin for the old gal. Maybe you'll get lucky tonight." I swear I could hear my dad laughing.
We also stayed on Maui for a few days and went to Kauai for a helicopter ride.
My mom and I had gone to Hawaii a few years before for a week and went on a one-day "flightseeing" trip from Honolulu to tour on the Big Island and Maui. We flew into a canyon and then turned around at the end and flew back. We were below the top of the canyon and at times it felt like I could reach out and touch the walls. My mother was not a happy camper. The pilot also saw a pod of whales and went into a dive to see them better. Mom fainted dead away. I don't think anybody could have ever got her into a small plane again.
I also took my granddaughter there for a high school graduation present in 2010. We climbed Diamond Head and I thought I'd die of exhaustion. Several little Japanese ladies that I swear were at least a hundred years old stopped to see if I was OK......they weren't even sweating or breathing hard. My granddaughter, on the other hand, ran most of the way up. Youth is wasted on the young.
I would be happy living in Hawaii.
Me too Jujube, we really got to check out the islands and always rented a car and drove far away from the tourist areas a lot of times. I told my husband too that I wouldn't mind living there at all, but neither of us was really hot to live on an island like that, but I'd be game if he wanted to, beautiful scenery and people, good feeling all around. We had a couple of three week vacations there and flew to islands like Kauai, Molokai and Maui, we saw the lava flows too, awesome!