Kona, United States Travel Blogs

Journey to Paradise: Kona (The Big Island)
Aug 13, 2008 (57 photos)

KONA We were up early. The room service breakfast did not arrive. When we called at around 0650 the covering butler sounds like he forgot. He said he'll deliver it in 15 minutes. We told him to forget it. I was really upset about this. We grabbed a bite ...

transit
Jul 26, 2007

transit point

perspectives on Hawaii...
May 9, 2008 (11 photos)

...   it occurs to me that s/he doesn't know whether s/he is resting on the beach of a state park, or downtown Kona amongst the chain restaurants and cruise ship tourists, or a deserted stretch of inaccessible and rarely traversed shoreline, or a larger ...

It's a WHEA of life....aloha...kk
May 7, 2008 (16 photos)

... college.   It's a public charter school...anyone is welcome...and the school is located right on the shore on the north Kona coast.   This is quite a place.  It's been in existence for 12 years and has been really successful. & ...

if you live long enough.....
May 5, 2008 (51 photos)

... impeccably spiced foods---check out the photos), we drop the girls off...Linda is headed back home tomorrow so we go back to the Kona side of the island to camp.  Of course, it's gotten late and arriving at the campsite at midnight, we find the gates ...

Keauhau and Kailua-Kona
Mar 15, 2009 (8 photos)

... of the Kona coffee. None of it was as good as Kona Joe's so I'm waiting to buy some until we get back to Kona next week. We started driving towards Kona to putter around the town for awhile and came across this little outdoor market with a number of ...

Kealakekua Bay
Mar 22, 2009 (4 photos)

... in and we were so tired it was relaxing.   Back at the condo, we relaxed for a couple hours and ventured back out to Kona. Jeff wanted to fish off of the pier and I had some more shops to explore. (I hadn't even gotten myself a t-shirt yet.) We ...

Hawaii- Big Island -Dolphins, Dragons, Seahorses
Aug 18, 2008 (7 photos)

... sick of all these silly question marks? Shall we move on to the dolphins?   Up the coast past the airport from Kona we found what we thought was possibly the best swimming beach on the island, Hapuna Beach, but as the last thing you ...

The Big Island, Hawaii
Mar 15, 2007

Update coming shortly..... :-)

Star gazing & lava flows on the Big Island
Jul 24, 2003

Entry to follow..... sorry!

SCUBA Diving
Dec 24, 2007 (1 photos)

... across and 300 lbs! (Although they can get up to 30 feet across and 3,000 lbs.) Aaron got knocked around by one that bumped his shoulder with a flap its powerful wing. (Next: more diving in Kona and then off to Maui to spend New Years Eve with friends.)

Big Island north route - and the hulemaka flip.
Jan 24, 2005 (9 photos)

... my elbow in the last picture), to Hilo. Mid-afternoon we traded our camper van for a car and retraced our steps across the island to Kona where we're staying for our last night. It's going to be our last chance to shower, pack, and get in some sunshine ...

Let the Adventure Begin....
Jan 13, 2009 (31 photos)

... not having a cell phone was going to be harder than i expected. I eventually arrived in Honolulu and missed my scheduled flight to Kona on the Big Island. Again, no cell phone and all land phone lines were down due to a storm. But i managed to email Meg ...

Home... for now.
Apr 3, 2006

After a very long trip from Auckland to Sydney to Honolulu to Kona, we made it home. It's so nice to be home. We are now well rested and doing a ton of laundry, packing up winter clothes and just settling back in. What's next for Miranda and Jim? Jim ...

We're Here!
Aug 3, 2008 (3 photos)

Our first sight of Hawaii: acres and acres of black lava in various stages of erosion, but much of it seemingly recent.  And the air port is right in the middle of it.  Just a little reminder, in case we'd forgotten, that we're on a volcanic ...

Kahalu'u Beach and the Luau
Mar 19, 2009 (8 photos)

... a couple of dresses the first day here at the open-air market so I had a couple of new options. We arrived at the Royal Kona Resort for the luau a little after 5 and the free mai tais were flowing. They had these huge punch bowls filled with mai tais. You ...

The Big Island
Nov 21, 2007 (4 photos)

4:45 am wake up call for the flight to Kona on the Big Island.  We had to fly back to Honolulu and change planes.  Once here, we went to get our car - we had reserved a Jeep 4x4 but of course they were out of those!  They gave us a ...

Back to Kona
Mar 18, 2009 (6 photos)

... will probably perceive from this blog entry, we're exhausted from all of our adventure. One more day and we're back to Kona and relaxing.   After our stop at Ken's House of Pancakes, we drove north out of Hilo. We drove through retired sugar cane ...

Swimming with the fishes, take 2
Aug 17, 2008 (16 photos)

We didn't get to see seahorses after all: the seahorse ranch was closed for the weekend. Like a lot of Hawaiians, they take time off on weekends and close at suppertime.  Very civilized and humane, and we from the mainland are not used to those ...

Christmas Day 2008 - South Point to Kailua-Kona
Dec 26, 2007 (38 photos)

... again, for the people I call "decimal movers", that's after all, only $33 per night in their scheme of things - a real bargain. Coming Soon: Exploring Kailua-Kona ---------------------------------------- Comments or questions: lobo4911@yahoo.ca

Arrival
Mar 14, 2009 (3 photos)

... why am I tired? Oh yeah it's midnight back home; I'd be in dreamland by now.) Ok so back to the trip... Getting to Kona The flight was uneventful (thank you God). I have to hand it to NWA; they've really upgraded their planes since Marya, Mom and I ...

Kalakekua Bay/Puuhonua o Honauau (Place of Refuge)
Jan 10, 2006 (8 photos)

... of my favorite days I spent in Hawaii... Visitors to the Big Island pay attention! In the early morning, drove South down past Kona to Kealakekua Bay. Once there, rented a kayak & snorkeling gear from guys at the dock and took a short 1/2 hour paddle ...

Big Island Lifestyle
Feb 5, 2009 (17 photos)

Travel is still going well. I've been on the Big Island for just over a month now. Doing just about anything to keep myself busy. Which isn't hard for me!!! Still keeping my construction skills sharpened by helping out the Fuller family with some odd jobs ...

Kailua - Kona - A Walk Through Kona
Dec 26, 2007 (60 photos)

... over the Hawaiian Islands from Kona to become founder of the Hawaiian royal family and master of the Hawaiian Islands .   Today Kailua-Kona has a population of just fewer than 10,000. By the way, photos no. 47 and 48 are of a mural in ...

Hawaii- Big Island Tennis and Turtles, plus bikes
Aug 16, 2008 (8 photos)

Hawaii- Big Island Tennis and Turtles, plus bikes and Captain Cook Not sure we have discussed the tennis here in Kona yet? Being free and right on the doorstop, and with a pool beside them, the courts are getting a bit of a hammering from us. Every ...

Den vzdelavania a zabavy
Jul 8, 2009 (4 photos)

Dnes sme stravili den vzdelavanim sa. Hned rano som isiel na prednasku o troch Americkych podnikatelov a na izbu som sa vratil okolo tretej. Stanka si medzitym uzila bazen a isla nakupit. Ja som preto isiel ku bazenu az na koniec dna a vecer sme spolu ...

The Big Island
Dec 25, 2004

From Maui - we flew to the Big Island of Hawaii to find the ever elusive "red stuff".

We're home!
Jun 4, 2008

We've arrived back home in Hawaii. We are on the Big Island staying in our condo until June 25th, then our condo on Maui and then our home on the island of Kauai in July. It's so great to be home. There's a lot of vog from the volcano since another vent ...

My birthday and surprises
Sep 27, 2007

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Hawaii- the Big Island- from Volcano village
Aug 21, 2008 (12 photos)

... of the big island, as the volcanic activity is so much more spectacular at dusk and at night, and if you stay in Kona area it's a long drive home.   I was talking about the rather worrying Kilauea crater a very short distance away, and this ...