Blogs from Kailua-Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, United States, North America - page 14

Hi everyone, nothing new to report. Everyone is happy and healthy, we are having fun going to a different beach everyday. Today we were at the beach by the marina. The kids had a great time playing in the trees and beach combing they found four sea turtles sunning themselves and resting. We watched a big military plane do touch and go's at the airport from our ventage point so that was entertaining. This morning we went to the Keahou Farmers market and bought tangerines, keefer limes, strawberry papayas, organic apple bananas and salad blends. The strawberries and tomatoes are busting with flavour, the kids ate a whole basket of strawberries right away. I have been making Kona coffee everyday.....Rod hates it but I love it and sit on the lanai enjoying a cup watching the ... read more

Merry Christmas Everyone!!! We hope everyone is well, we are great. Today we went to a locals beach it was pretty nice but it is about 85 degrees everyday so by afternoon we are home relaxing. I bought a bottle of Trader Vic Mai Tai mix....one of those and the kids don't bug me anymore.....here are a few photos of the kids by our Hawaiian chrstmas tree. Thinking of you all and wish you were here and not there. Love Kellie... read more

Hi everyone!! Today we went on a journey to the black sand beaches and Kilaheua volcano. Kilaheua is very active will many steam vents and hot molten lava lowing into the ocean. Unfortunately, the lava is about a mile long walk in the heat on a jagged lava path so I wasn't going with the kids. On the way to the volcano we stopped at a true black sand beach, it was really neat. Our drive took us to Hilo and the banyan tree park, some of the banyans are huge and are planted by people like Emellia Erheart and Cecil B Demille. then we frove on through to Waimea and back to Kona took us most of the day. I can't say enough good things about the dvd player in the van, its a long ... read more

Well it's Sunday night and the kids are packing a horendous amount of toys, they are sad to hear they can only bring one! We are off at 8 am heading for Seattle, Rod and the boys are off to the Boeing Museum and the girls are off to the mall! Next entry will be from our house on the Big Island! I'll add some pictures then too. Aloha for now, Kellie... read more

Hey Flew over to Kona on the Big Island from Honolulu on the 9th September on the tiniest Plane ever. By the time we arrived it was getting pretty dark so we had the option of hiring a car or paying for a Taxi to the hostel we'd earmarked to stay in Kona. After muchos hanging around the Car Rental companies we found out that because we were both under 25 there would be an extra surcharge of nearly $30 a day for us to hire a car, We had seen one company offering no surcharge on under 25 drivers on the internet so we thought we'd check it out the next day. Hiring a car is pretty much essential on the Big Island because the public transport here isn't great and relative to Oahu everything ... read more