Author: Carla

Last days on Kauai, first day on Hawaii (the Big Island)

Friday, after I did a little bit of work, we decided to just relax and hang around the resort all day. We just laid by the pool, relaxed in …

Then we decided to just drive around. We headed out on the shortest of the highways, stopped and took some pictures. Went briefly to a lava boulder beach, Mahukona Beach Park.…

You might be surprised to see so many cowboy things on the Big Island of Hawaii. But, Hawaii had cowboys first. Really.

Captain George Vancouver gave Kamehameha I a gift of cattle in 1793. The king put a kapu on …