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| Honu'apo Bay along the southeastern coast. There are Fish Ponds here that have been fished by Hawaiians for hundreds of years. |
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| Youngest-daughter overlooking Honu'apo Bay. |
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| The Mamma-woman and Youngest-daughter at the Punalu'u Bakery in the town of Na'alehu. This is the most southern bake shop in the United States. Stopped here for lunch and snacks for later. Yummy! |
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| When we came out of the bakery, a 4th of July Parade had started so we took our sandwiches and ate lunch sitting on the street curb while enjoying the festivities. |
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| Small-town USA was on display and a thoroughly good time was had by one and all! |
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| Along the rugged southern coast |
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| Waiahukini Park near the southern tip of Hawaii. Note the cars on top to judge how high these cliffs are. That's a long ways from the top to the water! |
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| Waiahukini Park. Older teenagers were jumping from the cliffs past the rocks and into the water far, far below. This girl wanted to get even higher so she jumped off a wooden pulley casing. We saw her back up and doing it again later. Hope she lives to tell her grand-kids about this during her old age! |
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| In 1866, Mark Twain spent 3 months living on this island. He visited Waiohinu, a small town not much more than a sugar cane plantation, and planted a Monkey Pod tree at this site. The original tree died a number of years ago, but a seedling from that tree was planted on the same spot. |
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| On the way back "home," we stopped at the famous Punalu'u Black Sand Beach Park, one of the most famous black sand beaches in Hawaii. |
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| The picturesque Punalu'u Beach |
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| We were lucky to be in the right place at the right time and were privileged to see 2 nesting Honu (Hawaiian Green Sea turtles). Adult males live their lives in the ocean, but females, like these, come back to the same beach where they were born to lay their eggs every other year. Babies will eat jelly fish and other small invertebrates, but the adults are vegetarians. Weighing around 400 - 500 pounds, they are 2nd in size only to Leatherback turtles. |
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| Time to wrap up another fantastic day in Paradise. Aloha y'all! |
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