Blogs from Poipu, Hawaii, United States, North America

Quite a few days of activity! Lucky we have our grassy turtle view point to return to for relaxation and drinks! I was generous in my activity planning yesterday and allowed for a lazy morning of pancakes. Maybe it was just to fortify everyone for the terror that awaited - zip lining! A quick drive and check in before we were all kitted up and ready for our first line. Some important lessons in physics - fat people go faster, so Beeb ate our dust…didn’t mean we couldn’t hear her the whole time! Three relatively tame, but still exhilarating lines, while we were hanging vertically before we drove up the mountain to tackle the beast. Apparently it’s over 4000ft in the old measure…which would seem to me well over 1km in the new. The distance doesn’t ... read more

Aloha All! We got out to Poipu Beach today for a nice snorkeling adventure... there is a sand bar about 40 feet out in the water that blocks some of the more powerful wave activity, resulting in tons of tropical fish living in the shallows among rocks and coral. There were lots of people out snorkeling in the shallows, but we swam to some less crowded water and ended up finding two fish friends who followed us for the majority of the time. We got to explore a little more of the island today by car. For dinner tonight we cooked up some of the Yellowfin Tuna that we caught yesterday, it was delicious. Enjoy the photos!... read more