Day 11 - Anini Reef/Beach and Kilauea Light House

Rise and shine, it is Field Studies Time!  5 AM wake up call and 6 AM pull out. Zzzzzzz... but, here is Anini Reef in the morning.

We found a lot of cool things on the reef...brittle stars, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, etc., etc. But, most importantly, we found an octopus!

After we collected critters, we ate lunch (at 10:30 AM!) here on Anini Beach.  This is our beautiful view.

After lunch, we went snorkeling.  We saw a SEA TURTLE!!!  It was so cool. I also saw a humahumanukanukaapua'a.  Here I am.   The water here is absolutely beautiful!

Kilauea Light House - a lot of birds to see!  

We stopped at Banana Joes again to get a smoothie or a frostie. I got a pineapple smoothie. It was quite good! I also got some spices and chocolate butter. 

Kate (photo professor) and I decided to check out the fish taco place down the street from the condo. It was good!  I had an Ahi Wrap...fish cooked!!!

 

I did stop back by the ice cream place to get an ice cream. Yummy!

Day 16-My Day Pt. 2

My last day in Hawaii.  It was bittersweet.  I love being there, but I was ready to go home.  I decided to get up and go down to the beach for a little bit.  I splashed around for a while before I had to go back to finishing packing.

I met up with some of the NLC HFS students that staid on the island after the class for Hamburgers and a trip to the Honolulu Zoo.   It was much larger than I imagined and was quite nice.

I tried the Atlantis Restaurant.  It was OK.  There was a shrimp and steak special.  It was fine, but nothing to write home about. 

They did serve a Taro/Poi bread roll.  It was quite good.  This is the only way to eat poi!  Ok, so the tiny drop that I had 2 years ago makes me think that this is the only way to eat poi!

 

To the airport at 8 PM for a 11 PM flight.  

Day 15 - My day in Honolulu!

Bright and early, I got up and went Surfing on Waikiki Beach.  I did much better than last year.  I got up on most of the waves.  I wiped out a couple of times, but for the most part, I did well.  It was a lot of fun.  This is my surf instructor Barney.

 I spent about an hour on the beach after my surf lessons, stopped at the Round Top Table Pizza for lunch, showered, napped (well, I laid down for a few minutes), and then got back out to wander, shop, and then find dinner.

I stopped at Jimmy Buffet's Beachcomber.  I ate here last year and the food was good.  I had fish tacos.  Yummy!