Hawaii 2019 (page 7 of 11)

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Day 7

After a quick breakfast and another load of laundry, we headed down to Kealakekua Bay. We rented a double kayak from “Ehud & Kai” who have a store front one place, but everyone was on the shoreline. It’s an odd trek down to the shoreline (from about 1200 feet); especially the way that Google took us. We have found that Google Maps, while it gets us where we want to go, tends to take us along a number of side roads and narrow streets. This definitely was the case today. The small bay had very limited parking in amongst some homes, but we managed to squeeze into a spot. We got our Kayak and were told their company doesn’t have landing rights on to Captain Cook Monument, so we should leave anything we didn’t want to get wet (towels, larger cameras, etc.) there. We put our towels and big camera bag back into the car and then headed out. It’s about a 1-mile paddle to the Captain Cook Monument. Quite often in the bay there are dolphins, but not today – even they must have been on storm watch. Once we got near the monument, there were a lot of tour boats, smaller boats as well as people like us with sea kayaks. We snorkeled while Mike stayed tethered to the kayak. There were a number of fish there of every color and the water was cool but not overly cold. Then Greta took the kayak and Mike went onshore for a bit. The monument itself is on British Soil so we can honestly say that we’d paddled to another country!

We headed back then, as the ocean swells were supposed to get bigger as the day went on, and while sunny, it wasn’t THAT warm. We got back, and can honestly say we never flipped the kayak. We had a dry bag on board, but it’s good to say we didn’t quite need it.

We drove back to the condo to clean up. We were hoping to do a brewery tour but nothing was available for that afternoon. We ate a few snacks in the condo and just relaxed that afternoon (as well as did another load of laundry for all the salty stuff we had from the paddling). Outrigger provides the laundry soap & dishwasher soap, as well as exchanges beach towels whenever needed, so that is a nice amenity.

We got back to the condo & ate some snacks (bread, cheese, chips) in lieu of lunch & made reservations for dinner at Kona Inn. We just relaxed for the afternoon and then headed into town for dinner. We got there early and discovered that the “strip of grass” that the guidebook mentioned was actually a full lawn between the restaurant and the ocean. We just sat by the water. There was a turtle stuck in the tide pool that was splashing about and we also saw a fisherman with a net head out near the water for the evening.

After we were seated, we relaxed and watched the sunset. There was a marine layer near the horizon, so no green flash but still a pretty sunset into the clouds. Dinner was great and our waitress Nicole was one of the best we’d had on the trip. Mike had the macadamia crusted mahi-mahi with garlic mashed potatoes and Greta had the stuffed Ono with rice pilaf. Both meals were excellent and big enough that we didn’t have room for dessert. The restaurant had ceiling fans all run off of a band system and that was fun to look at as well. Then back to the condo for a bit of reading and off to bed.

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