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Kona Snorkeling, Fish Watching and Other Adventures

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    This morning it was supposed to rain and that put a monkey wrench in the day's agenda, which was slated to feature doing the laundry.  This being Hawaii, where electricity is ridiculously expensive, we dry our undies in the sunshine on lines strung web-like across the lanai.  Its tres upper crust, dahling,  More like Dogpatch goes island livin...


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 As you may know, we live 90 miles by road from Kilauea, which hides from Kailua Kona behind Mauna Loa, a seriously large mountain.  It takes us two hours to drive to Hawaii Volcano National Park and any effects we experience from Madame Pele's eruptions have to circumvent the mountain.  In this same way, Mauna Loa protects us from hurricanes.  

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    Snorkeling has been slow this week, but on the other hand, the exhibit is up and running through the end of February.  So here are some pictures for those of you who can't make it to our library in the next five weeks.  Jennifer Kau'i Losalio Young (she's has somehow through marriage and her renewed emphasis on her Hawaiian heritage acquired a bunch of...


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     While we have been mostly focused on the finishing touches to the upcoming extravaganza at the library, which opens this coming Thursday, I have squeezed in a little snorkeling.  

     On Wednesday, Sandra dropped me off at the pier.  The cruise ship was in, so I walked through the hotel and chose to snorkel on the Ironm...


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    Christmas Day went off as planned.  We saw Kathy and Vernon in the morning before they left for the airport.  They bestowed upon us, as a sort of Christas gift, some of the stuff left over from their family vacation and returned car seats and boogie boards.  This meant we didn't have to drive to the airport, which was a Christmas blessing in and o...


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