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Getting Acquainted with Island Time
... on the ocean's surface, this blog entry isn't so much about Spencer Beach County Park, as it is about how Mariajose and I came to be here...
As you may know, we flew out of Calgary Monday morning, just before (as I've been told since) Alberta's first blast of winter hit. I guess we just managed to escape nasty, below freezing ...
La plus belle plage du voyage c'est ici!!
... thon et du mahi mahi pêchés aujourd'hui. Nico a les yeux plus grands que la pense, comme d'habitude, et achète du thon pour nous et pour des amis imaginaires qui vont souper avec nous. Résultat: il se ressert 3 fois pour venir à bout des ses steaks qui sont par ailleurs délicieux.
Les filles nous ont fait une belle surprise ce soir: on a dû d'abord s'habiller chic, puis on s'est fait servir le souper dehors juste pour nous deux. On avait même un menu ...
North to Hawi
... for coffee and to stroll around the town. The old cigar shop, with its strange collection wooden statues out front, including a hideous alien and Castro giving the finger to passers by (he was supposed to be holding a cigar, but local kids, according to the shopkeep, rearranged his finger as a prank), was worth a visit.
From Hawi, we drove to the end of the road, to view the valleys and coast beyond. The wind was up, and it would have been a nice walk ...
Slowing Down
... especially since we are staying for nine days.
We quickly settled in, and I set up a make-shift bar. Serving as bartender, I whipped up some virgin pina colada's for the kids, and we drank them on the balcony, admiring the view. We were adjusting to island time and relaxing. We then walked around the resort to get our bearings. At the pool, we played ...
On to the Big Island
... maui onion. After a quick lunch, we are off to the Hawaiian volcanic National park.
We met a very nice Ranger by the name of Ruthie, she took us around the volcanic crater and showed us different fern and tropical plants and some endemic Hawaiian red birds. Apparently there were more than 20 species of endemic Hawaiian red finches in the past. However, due to environmental changes, introduction of mosquitos and rats, in time, ...
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