We are now preparing to depart the Sheraton Kona Resort @ Keauhou Bay and start out return to reality…
Have to head to the airport in the next 20-30 minutes, with a stop for breakfast and gas up the SUV before returning it…
Next stop Kona International Airport @ Kehole…..
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Here are some wide angle panorama photographs taken during our resort walkabout:
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Today was a “relax and get ready to head home” day. We packed up a couple large flat rate priority mail boxes with our purchases and mailed them home this morning, then explored a little around the local Kailua-Kona area before getting back to the hotel about 12:30pm.
Heard the news of the tornado in Oklahoma, and spent some time listening tho the news stories, then went on a resort walkabout. Stopped in the lounge area to play a game of pool, air hockey and ping pong ball and to cool off a bit before exploring more of the resort.
Here are a bunch of pictures from our walk about:
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Sunset photos from our balcony before heading to dinner in Kailua-Kona.
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After visiting the painted church, we continued down the hill to the coast and drove over to the Captain Cook Memorial at Kealakekua Bay. The memorial is across the bay,and currently inaccessible due to an environmental impact study on damage to the bay’s wildlife from all the boat bank kayak traffic in the bash the past several years.
More information here:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kealakekua_Bay
The surf hitting the shore was so intense, you could actually hear the water rocking the big rounded lava stones around as it flowed in and out with the waves…
At the far point of the bay, the crashing surf was extremely intense. These were taken with a 200mm zoom and then cropped to about 50% of the original frame:
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