Day 13 Well I was right, the worst nights sleep on this trip. Even with 2 fans on us I felt sweaty and uncomfortable. At least it was just the one night. I got up at 6am as I was too hot. Breakfast was potato skins back at Moose Macgillycuddys. Really like the food there. A walk on the beach and we needed to head to the airport. You need to get to the airports 1 and a half to 2 hours before a flight, even domestic flights. You queue to check in, bag drop, pre screen and TSA. It's crazy and you feel like you waste so much time. As our flight was in the middle of the day I felt like the day was a waste. Next time I would either book early like ... read more

Day 9 Awake at 4am, tummy not feeling well but we were up early again anyways for another volcano hike. I know that this is meant to be a vacation and we haven't stopped.. going to need a vacation from our vacation ? I had signed us up for a 12 mile (about 20km) volcano trek leaving at 8.30am, we stopped at the local supermarket to grab lunch and water before making our way up to the Haleakalā Volcano which is close to 10000ft above sea level, this is the largest volcano on Maui. It took over an hour to get there and while we waited for our tour guides to drive back down to the 8000ft parking lot and hitch a ride back to to the top we checked out the visitor centres and the ... read more

Day 10 Woke up feeling sore in my thighs, can't imagine how I would have felt if I had done the whole 12 mile volcano walk the day before ? The hostel supplied a breakfast of coffee and pancakes, after eating we took a Lyft (like Uber) to the airport to pick up our rental car. We had trouble getting an Uber as our bank was an Australian bank but Lyft worked fine. We couldnt get a Lyft or Uber from the airport as they are technically "not allowed" to go there but we were given a tip to move your "pin" outside of the airport then give the driver a call to pick you up from inside...good to know for next time. We picked up our rental car.. ok not as cool as our last ... read more

Day 6 We were up early (for us) to check out and get to a tour of the local brewery where we had gone out to dinner a few nights before. Seeing how they make the beer followed by a tasting of a flight of 4 of their brews, including the banana beer Kym had the other day.. breakfast beer!! Leaving Kona behind we set on our roadtrip. It was not even 2 and a half hours to where we were staying and we made a couple of stops to check out the scenery along the way. Hawai'i has such vast changing landscapes within a 20 minute drive. We saw coastal towns, black lava rocks making up lots of the landscape to looking up at lava mountains followed by lush green fields and rainforests. One of ... read more

Day 4 When on holiday it is important to sleep in and that's exactly what we have been doing. Its so nice to be lazy and do things on your own time, no real agenda, make it up as you go along.. Pineapple and coconut pancake mix with maple bacon and syrup for brekky... needed to be tropical when in Hawaii. A few little critters joined us for breakfast. Gold dust geckos, a bright green gecko with red markings on its back covered in small gold flakes (hence the name) an introduced species from Madagascar who feed on ants and other bugs but also have a sweet tooth. We gave them a bit of syrup soaked pancake and watched (photographed and videod) them licking the tasty morsel. Both of us get excited when we see native ... read more