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EXPLORING HAWAII and the KONA COAST On August 6th, we took a short Aloha Airlines flight from Honolulu to Kona on the big island of Hawaii. This island is the largest of the chain, and also the newest. Our home for the next six nights was the King Kamehameha Hotel in Kailua-Kona. We had a free breakfast every morning and I fell in love with the bread pudding with cream sauce topping. That was a treat to wake up to every day. The view on the left is from my in-law's room, ours was similar but a little more obstructed by the trees. The picture on the right is the hotel, the beach and the Ahu`ena Heiau, the temple of peace and prosperity built by King Kamehameha. The public pier is right next to the hotel and we watched the sportfishers coming in that night with the catch from the Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament. It was fun to see all those gorgeous boats coming in, one after the other. After the excitement died down we walked thru town to the Kona Inn where we had a great meal, then we came back to the pier to see the last of the billfish being weighed in for that day. The next day was the final round of the Billfish Tournament and we wandered around the pier at 4:00 PM to see who would bring in the final catch. A boat named Tara had a billfish on and was still fighting it when the call came to bring in the lines. We all waited for Tara to return to the dock and it was worth the wait when she arrived with the winning billfish of the tournament. A young Japanese man had landed the fish so, for the next few hours, he posed with his 697 pound marlin and with Miss Billfish. I'm not sure which one the men found more appealing, that fish or the beauty queen, but my husband, a true fisherman, seemed to drool a little bit more when looking at the fish. The town of Kailua-Kona is much more laid back than Honolulu, more of a fishing village with lots of great shops and restaurants. But it was the diversity of the island that surprised me, there is so much to do. We enjoyed deep sea fishing, snorkeling and visiting all the fancy resorts above Kailua-Kona. But one of the best days we had was the circular tour of the whole island when we visited the Waipio Valley, Akaka Falls, Hilo and Rainbow Falls, the Nani Mau Gardens and finally the Kilauea volcano. That day we saw just about everything that the big island has to offer. Follow these links to enjoy our big island adventures: INTRO/ WEBRINGS OAHU HAWAII/ KONA HILO/ VOLCANO SNORKELING FISHING RESORTS LINKS VISIT THE TOP 100 TRAVEL SITES Email me at janeyzee@yahoo.com with any comments about these pages View my original Geocities guestbook Take another L K at my home page Aloha to the people who have visited this site Most of the graphics you'll see on these pages are from The Hawaiian Girl site and I'd like to say a hearty Mahalo to her for all these gorgeous graphics. This page hosted by Get your own Free Home Page