Sailing

This weekend I flee to airlie beach to join Derek and Travis for a three day sailing trip. It was on a 60' sailing yacht that had supposedly won the Sydney to Hobart race in the late 80's. But it was the three of us, four crew members, and twenty three others this time, so no records were broke. The days were filled with beaches, diving, snorkelling, sailing, and general lazing on the deck. I didn't take any pics, but here a photo of me sitting on the grass at the airport waiting to board.


-- Post From My iPhone

Hawaii Pics

As most of my avid readers know I met my mom "half-way" for a vacation in Hawaii for a couple of weeks. From BNE to SYD to HNO to KNA, Kona, where we stayed with my Aunt & Uncle in a condo they rented for their 5 week stay. Here's the view from the patio.
My Aunt and Uncle at the Kona Brewing Company for dinner:

My backseat companions from the Kona Brewing company:

Hi-def map of Kona, we stayed right there, drove up there, and saw volancoes over there.

My field of vision for most of the trip:

Volcano:

Mom & Frank playing I-spy:

Mom and Frank at a lava tube, with some cheddar iPhone photo enhancement:

Volcano, with similar chedder iPhone enhancement:

Black sand beach on the south end of the island:

Feet in black sand:

Mom & Frank at Bubba Gump's:

Pot-o-shrimp from Bubba Gump's... they had grilled shrimp, garlic shrimp, fried shrimp, popcorn shrimp, jumbo shrimp, shrimp pizza, shrimp gumbo, shrimp on a stick... you get the point:

Sunset from Kailoa:

Everyone else went back to Canada on a Thursday, and I flew to Honolulu for 2 nights. Here's Waikiki at night when I arrived... I stayed on the 33rd floor of the Hyatt right on Waikiki beach:

During the day, Diamond Head in the background:

Surfer's on the long, slow, and steady Waikiki surf:

Waikiki shopping district:

I have more pics on my camera (these are iPhone) so I'll hopefully get some more up in the next couple of...