Another day in paradise...

Yesterday we drove down the east coast and enjoyed the ocean view.  It is just amazing!  We then met up with Pu and Pete at the Kona Brewery just after sunset.  There was Hawaiian contemporary music and children got up to dance.  The Hula is not only beautiful, but it keeps one in shape.  This is the Aloha Nation.

 This is the Blow Hole - the famous spot where the love scene was shot in the movie "From Here to Eternity". Shriek did a take-off of the part.

 More shots from the entrance of the Blow Hole

 Further down the highway, there was a lava shore.  It is amazing how plants will grow.  This plant is a variety of Jade.  We would pay money for this plant in our home - here it grows like weeds!

The beautiful colours in the wave pools - lots of life also.

This morning we got up at 6AM and went to Hanauma Bay to snorkel.  I do not know if Ringo Star ever snorkeled, but I'd like to be Under the Sea in an Octopus's Garden in the Shade... 

 These little guys are so fast, I am lucky to get this shot.  They usually swim over coral.

 These fish are so beautifully coloured!

 There really is a fish here!  The orange fins caught my eye as they waved in the sunlight.  
I thought they were antennae of a crab or something until I saw the coral move.

This fish is a bottom feeder and will almost bury itself to get food.

Today we are having a turkey dinner with Pu and her nephew, plus some of her friends - it is like the turkey dinner that I didn't get this year, neither did she.  Celebrate!!!

I miss you all.  Dad is beginning to slow down.  He announced that he is walking slower but somehow I think that this was influenced by the long steep walk up the hill from the bay.  One day at a time...

Hawaiian performer at the Kona Brewery singing the Hawaiian version of 
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow".

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Young girls dancing the Hula at the Kona Brewery at the Koko Head Marina.