Katie our fabulous tour guide picked me and two others up at my hotel at 10am and we picked up two more and we were off! There was a total of nine people on the tour. A couple who just got married from Switzerland, A couple who were engaged although they secretly just got married for tax purposes and none of their family knows, a long dating long distance couple where one lives in New Zealand and the other lives in Southern US, two mates from Australia, and me. It really was a great and interesting group.
First stop was a beach just north of Kona. The view was amazing, the water was warm, and it was seriously a slice of paradise. It was so breathtakingly beautiful! We stayed about two hours and had lunch on the beach. It was then back in the van for the trip along the north of the island and over to Hilo. We did stop along that way to try the Big Island Malasadas. Apparently every island has "the" place to have Malasadas. On Oahu it's just down from Anna's house. I'm looking forward to trying it before I head home. They are also Portuguese so hopefully I can try them in Portugal too.
We arrived in Hilo and it was around 5pm. Before we head to the campsite we stop to see Rainbow Falls to take pictures. From there we had dinner of tortilla soup and olive oil bread. We were then off to the campsite and we set up our tents and I didn't realize quite how rainy Hilo was so I left the flap open to air out the tent and I accidentally put the fly on backwards. We then headed out to a warm sea water pool. It was warm like bath water and had crashing waves on the other side of the wall to keep the water from being stagnant. It was a relaxing end of the day.
Sadly, I came back to a wet tent as it had rained on the way back. It was still early, even thought it was dark and with a damp tent I wasn't in a hurry to head to bead. So I hung out with the Aussie mates by the ocean just chatting. The waves crashing the cliffs just meters away from our campsite. Between the company, the amazing view, and the stars it was really fun time.
Eventually a headed to bed and in the middle of the night we got a huge down pour which is when I realized I has the fly on backwards because it caused a stream of water to come sailing into the tent. Wait... I forgot to mention I'm in a one person tent that I can barely sit up in, so at this point it dawns on me that I'm way too old for this! Little too late but I ball up all my stuff sitting on the foam mat keeping me and my stuff from getting wet. Eventually it stops pouring and I lay out the foam mat and try to get back to sleep. Eventually I do which I was very thankful for.
This is a beautiful flower that was near the Rainbow Falls.
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