12 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kailua-Kona: Royal Kona Resort: View from our hotel room
12 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kailua-Kona: Eileen in the grounds of the Royal Kona Resort
12 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kailua-Kona: In the grounds of the Royal Kona Resort
12 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kailua-Kona: Breakfast at Humpys
12 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') View from Humpys
12 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kailua-Kona: Eileen at hotel
12 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kailua-Kona: Hawaiian Luau at the hotel: a feast of music, dancing, food and fire!
12 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Hawaiian Luau at the hotel: a feast of music, dancing, food and fire!
13 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') At Punalu'u Bake Shop on the south of the island
13 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Yellow-billed Cardinal at the Punalu'u Bake Shop
13 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Turtle spotting at Punalu'u Beach; black volcanic sands
13 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Jez turtle spotting at Punalu'u Beach; black volcanic sands
13 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Eileen returning to our adventure bus
13 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kilauea errupting
13 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') At Kilauea Lodge for lunch
13 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Hilo Bay: Staute of Kamehameha The Great
13 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Hilo: Rainbow Falls
14 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kailua-Kona: Eileen in the grounds of the Royal Kona Resort
14 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kailua-Kona
14 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kailua-Kona: Our hotel: Royal Kona Resort
14 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kailua-Kona: Spider lily
14 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kailua-Kona: Eileen in the pool at our hotel
15 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kona Sea Salt Farm
15 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kona Sea Salt Farm: our guide
15 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Pu'ohonau O Hanaunau National Historic Park
15 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kona Joe Coffee plantation
16 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kohala Forest Trek and waterfall
16 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kohala Forest Trek and waterfall: Balloon Plant
16 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kohala Forest Trek and waterfall: Guide Tracey with animal bones
16 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kohala Forest Trek and waterfall: animal bones
16 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kohala Forest Trek and waterfall: Guide Tracey describing how a Banyan Tree propagates
16 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kohala Forest Trek and waterfall: skull of a wild dog
16 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kohala Forest Trek and waterfall Maui visible above the clouds
16 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kohala Forest Trek and waterfall: Passion Flower
16 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kohala Forest Trek and waterfall: Pineapple Guava
16 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kohala Forest Trek and waterfall: Tracey explaining irrigation engineering
16 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kohala Forest Trek and waterfall: Tracey ready for a waterfall swim
16 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kohala Forest Trek and waterfall: our group
16 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kohala Forest Trek and waterfall: picnic
16 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kohala Forest Trek and waterfall: our picnic view!
16 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') Kailua-Kona: drinks at the hotel
17 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') At the airport for the short flight to Oahu
17 September: HAWAI'I ('Big Island') At the airport for the short flight to Oahu: we like their taste in flags!
17 September: OAHU Honolulu: Jez by the Elvis statue at the Honolulu International Center
17 September: OAHU Honolulu: Royal Hawaiian Band plaing at the Ala Moana Center
17 September: OAHU Honolulu
17 September: OAHU Waikiki: View from our room on the 18th floor of the Twin Fin hotel
17 September: OAHU Twin Fin Hotel, Waikiki: looking down to the pool on the 3rd level
18 September: OAHU Twin Fin Hotel, Waikiki: breakfast on the 21st level
18 September: OAHU Honolulu: Iolani Palace
18 September: OAHU Pearl Harbor visitor Center: gardens
18 September: OAHU Pearl Harbor Visitor Center: boarding the ferry to the USS Arizona Memorial
18 September: OAHU USS Arizona: all that remains above water
18 September: OAHU Pearl Harbor: on board the USS Arizona Memorial
18 September: OAHU Pearl Harbor: USS Missouri
18 September: OAHU Pearl Harbor: USS Arizona Memorial
18 September: OAHU Pearl Harbor visitor Center: USS Bowfin (SS/AGSS-287), Balao-class submarine
18 September: OAHU Pearl Harbor Visitor Center: Regulus 1 cruise missile
18 September: OAHU Back at the Twin Fin Hotel: Alan posing with lei necklaces!
18 September: OAHU Eileen swimming off Waikiki beach
18 September: OAHU Alan waving (not drowning!) off Waikiki beach
18 September: OAHU Our Twin Fin hotel (centre) at Waikiki beach
18 September: OAHU Waikiki beach, sunset
20 September: OAHU Waikiki beach, early morning
20 September: OAHU Halona beach cove
20 September: OAHU Halona Blowhole
20 September: OAHU Nu'uanu ali Lookout
20 September: OAHU Oahu Circle Island Tour: the bell at Byodo-In Temple
20 September: OAHU Oahu Circle Island Tour: Byodo-In Temple
20 September: OAHU Buddha in Byodo-In Temple
20 September: OAHU The Japanese cemetery at the Byodo-In Temple
20 September: OAHU Kualoa
20 September: OAHU Waimea Valley
20 September: OAHU Dole Pineapple Plantation
20 September: OAHU Waikiki sunset
20 September: OAHU Waikiki at sunset
20 September: OAHU Last evening, at Lulu's, Waikiki: Lulu's Mai Tai cocktails
20 September: OAHU Last evening, at Lulu's, Waikiki: the last supper!
21 September: OAHU Homeward bound, via Los Angeles