Hawaii Summer 2021
In late July, we took a (partial) family vacation to Hawaii. I say partial because Izzy decided to stay in Boston, so it was me, Emily, and Violet. I’ve been holding off posting the photos because I had grand plans to transfer photos and my journal entries to the blog, but I don’t quite have that motivation. Instead I’m just going to get the pics up!
Kona
We spent the first few days of our trip in Kona. Fun town, very touristy, but we’re tourists so that worked out. We spent time on the beach. We visited a coffee farm. And we took a kayak tour / snorkeling tour in the bay where Captain Cook was killed.
Volcanoes National Park
Our second leg of the journey was spent in Volcanoes. We had a lovely cottage and spent a couple of days hiking through the National Park. If we were to do it all over, we would have spent more time here and less time at our 3rd stop.
Captain Cook
For the last leg of our journey on Big Island, we returned to the west side of the island to stay in Captain Cook, which was close to where we began in Kona. We also took a couple of excursions to the eastern side to visit Mauna Kea and do some stargazing above the clouds.
Honolulu
We spent 2 nights in Honolulu to wrap up the trip and had good fun at the Waikiki Beach, as well as touring Pearl Harbor. That was a great end to a 3-week vacation and filled us with enough memories to stomach the loooong flight home :)