We only did the wimpy first two miles (four round trip) of the Kalalau Trail on the Nā Pali Coast, but hey we were on vacation so we were having a good time.

Life is hard in paradise.

Our first island was Kaua'i, where we stayed in Hanalei on the north shore just a stones throw from this beach. Each morning, Gail (who ran the B&B where we were staying) would make us breakfast of local fruits, a fruit smoothy and something speical like rice kasha (rice pudding) or waffles. We converted to island time pretty quickly and forgot the day of the week pretty quickly.

The sky turned purple at sunset one night. After the sun went down, on a clear night you could see the Milky Way in all of it's glory.

Happy Birthday to my dear sweet lime :)

• 14 October 2009 08:51am: Who would win in a fight? Teenage mutant ninja turtles or teenage mutant pirate turtles.
• 15 October 2009 10:42pm: I am excited about falling asleep.
• 16 October 2009 05:41pm: It's official. I am on vacation!!!!
• 17 October 2009 06:00pm: Big Indian Pacific freight train just rushed through my little station at Narara while waiting for the cityrail to Sydney.
• 18 October 2009 02:45pm: Having my last paddle pop untill I get back to Oz.
• 23 October 2009 05:58am: Going on a three hour boat tour .... a threeeeee hour tour. Should have read the fine print more closely.
• 23 October 2009 05:53pm: Made it back to land with 6GB of pictures of the Napali Coast without loosing my lunch.
• 26 October 2009 01:32pm: I am certain that the locals do not call it that. They string together vowels and watch the tourists contort their mouths for entertainment.
• Yesterday at 05:57pm: Hiked Kilauea Iki Crater Trail today where it rained on us! It was fun, interesting and brisk!
• Today at 01:32pm: sunburn :(

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The airports in Hawaii are just like LAX in that they have the same sorts of chairs and they have the same announcer announcing the same periodic announcements, expect instead of suffixing them with “Thanks” or “Thank You” he says “Mahalo”. The announcer's voice got me to thinking that if I ever had enough money such that it was no object that I would love to hire Peter Cullen to be my official narrator and voice to the world. Instead of talking to people I would write something down on a piece of paper and hand it to Mr. Cullen who would read it out in his best Optimus Prime voice.