Hawaii Video

This is the only way I can get the video to post. Yay Animoto app, boo lack of ease in getting video into blog! Hey there, Floating Lush has shared a video with you that was made on her iPhone! You can watch it on your iPhone or your computer by following this link: http://animoto.com/play/TX42lR0IRw5siMglhXDzgg [...]

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Whale Watching Redux

This time we saw whales! And they are *incredibly* hard to photograph. This is the very best Mr. Lush managed: that teeny tiny splash way in the distance is a whale. Really.

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I’m not so sure about that

"Scandinavian shave ice. If it's not Scandinavian, it's not Hawaiian."

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Sign

"Leaving tsunami evacuation area."

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Wildlife

Feral cats and mongeese (mongooses?) by the Kona Borders.

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Volcano

This is as close to lava as we got. It was very cool, and quite difficult to capture with a camera. The glow is lava as it pours off the cliff into the sea; the steam is what happens when lava meets ocean. It was pretty spectacular.

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Punalu’u Beach

This is a black sand beach, although it's hard to tell in the picture. It was also *super* windy. There was a sea turtle that kept poking its head out of the water every time I looked down, so I never got a picture.

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Whale Watching

Alas, we saw no whales. We did see hammerhead sharks and spotted dolphins, and it was a beautiful day, so we enjoyed ourselves nonetheless.

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Beach

We spent a couple hours here yesterday, reading and basking in the sun. It was lovely.

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More Greenery

At the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden.

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