Then, we went snorkeling at Kahulu Bay. It was amazing to see all the colorful fish and spiky coral. The flippers in the snorkel set make a huge difference -- you can swim easily but walk clumsily, tripping over rocks. Not unlike the scene from The Little Mermaid where Ariel gets legs. Then, we almost fell asleep in the black sand, gulping lungfuls of fresh air through our noses. It's hard to be an under-the-sea mouth breather. Then, we went to a local farmers market and bought lilkoi juice, mangos, macadamia nuts and a mysterious green fruit that allegedly tastes like an apple pear. A kind vendor selling us the fruit handed Marcio a plumeria lei to hand to me. The smell of those flowers could make anyone feels like a Hawaiian princess. Mind you this is all before 10 am.
We bought mahi mahi at the market and made a delightful lunch of fresh fish, roast potatoes and salad on our balcony.
After a nap, we headed out to the Peace Botanical Gardens, filled with exotic plants, various temples from work religions, a realistic scale model of the galaxy made from plants, a parrot named Harriet and numerous cats.
Speaking of cats, it looks like we should have brought Orange on vacation:
After the gardens, we drove to the City of Refuge, a national park marking the home of ancient Hawaiian alii or royal chiefs and a place of sanctuary people running from war or crime would be safe and/or pardoned (if they could swim fast enough). There, we sat on Mark Twain's favorite rock and considered the logistics of building a 12-foot wall out of lava rocks and only lava rocks. It was gorgeous.
We came home by way of a one-lane road and another beach near Captain Cook's bay, the one that starts with a K. A well-intentioned but intoxicated Hawaiian told us as we were getting in the car that he thought we were getting married and that the bond between us was really strong.
We closed out the day with this view and a sushi dinner. I love all the lava rocks!
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