Here is funny looking crab on the Hapuna beach, Big Island, Hawaii:
Hawaii 08-07 Crab on the Beach
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Hawaii 08-06 Hapuna Beach, Big Island
The sandy beach at Hapuna Bay is probably the best beach on Big Island. It’s a public beach, but well maintained, has some very limited infrastructure, boogie board size waives most of the time, very popular among locals and visitors. We saw only one storm in three months when waves were too big for boogie boarding, but still few guys were riding them. The beach was only 10-15 minutes to drive from out villa at Waikoloa, so it soon became our favorite place to spend a day. For me personally, this place was just amazing because I saw there the best while jump in my life. It was in the morning, sun was hitting my back and I was facing forward the ocean, when a huge while jumped almost completely out of the water just in half mile from the shore. It was so bright and powerful, splash and million drops of water lightened in the air as firework… No, I didn’t have my camera ready. Another time we saw a pack of dolphins cruising by the shore, and finally my little friend – beach crab, I was surprised it wasn’t afraid of me and let me film him for awhile.
Hawaii 08-05 Fairway Villas at Waikoloa Beach
We stayed on Big Island for 3 months. It was totally make sense to rent a condo, and we find it online. Fairway Villas condominium, just next to the Waikoloa Golf Course. Two bedrooms, two bath, ground floor with back door and windows facing to the golf course. My wife found a real good deal, because we were renting for more then a month. It was not so expensive as in the hotel, and it had a full size kitchen, which is real important to as because we have little kids and they need good meal. We had so much free space that invite friends and relatives, and they were vising us all the time we were on Big Island. It was about 40 yards from our back door to the first golf hole on the field, too bad we don’t care about golf, but out kids played there for free all the time. The only bad thing was grass cutting. The maintenance crew started at 3 am every other night and made enough noise to disturb our sleep.
Hawaii 08-04 Turtles on Waikoloa Beach
We were chasing by the storm, in two days after we came from Kauai it starts windy, and then we had a couple of real wet days. Lucky we are the storm ends suddenly as began. The Waikola beach is a real nice place even when weather not cooperating.
Hawaii 08-03 Big Island. Scolopendra
We came to the Big Island late night and were ready to go to bed. But my wife discovered a weird looking insect behind the bad. I tried to catch it with barbeque tongs, but it was too quick for me, it hided inside the chair and I was clever enough not trying to get it from there. I just care the chair outside and left it over night. And some time later I found out it was scolopendra, poisonous insect which will bite if it has a chance.
Hawaii 08-02 Kauai
Dmitri turned two and got a little birthday party, I test ran my new metal detector and found few coins and other junk on the near by beach. Kauai is the island of chickens. Chickens are everywhere. which kinda cool. We ran around the island, check up few places and was ready to move to Big Island.
Hawaii 08-01 Trip Beginning. Kauai
We are family of four with two kids 2 and 6 years old. In 2008 we attend a trip to Hawaii, visiting tree islands: Kauai, Big Island and Oahu. Spend a lot of time on the Internet we found a good deal for tickets and hotels. We paid about $1500 for ticket of four Seattle – Kauai – Big Island – Oahu – Seattle.
Most of the time flying is the worth part of the trip, but we had a lot of DVDs and a DVD-player which helped very much with keeping kids busy during the flight.
A week in the family oriented resort we stayed, was a freebie, which we got a year ago from one of those time-shares presentation. We liked it a lot: 2 bedrooms, 2 bath, kitchen. All rooms have access to the nice balcony with ocean view. Large pool, kids play structures, many pounds with fish, great landscape. This resort doesn’t have a sand beach, but there are beautiful, specially at sundown.
Then, we were hit by a little tropic storm. It was wet and windy, and then all beautiful beaches turn grey and ugly for a week. We felt lucky we don’t need to go home after Kauai, if we had only one week for vacation it wouldn’t be a good trip at all.
My daughter’s First Webpage
World Championship of Sand Sculpture. Harrison Hot Springs, September 2006
September, probably is the best month in the Northwest. I think, it was our first trip to Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada. Everything was right: weather, company, entertainment.
It took us 4 hours to get to Harrison Hot Springs from Seattle. I guess, we could save an hour, or so on that trip, but if you have full car of kids and older women your chances to be in charge are very low.
We didn’t know about the Word Sand Sculpture Championship, and we were pleased to find it out about right after we arrived.
We had a very good time checking out sand sculptures. There were a couple of pretty primitive, and a lot of beautiful ones. Sometime you just catch yourself thinking “It just cant be made from the sand.”
Mt. Rainier, Hike to Camp Muir, September 2006
Unfortunately, we couldn’t make it all the way to the top in one day. If you want to have half world below your feet you gotta go in a two-days hike, care some extra gear, like tent, sleeping bag, some food, and spend a night in Camp Muir.
