Monday, May 12, 2008
Hawaii, ages ago it seems like.
So, in the spirit of getting back into the swing of things, while I'm waiting for our helicopter to think about leaving, here's a few more pictures from our trip to Hawaii back in January. There should be some more posts along these lines as I work to get caught up over the next few weeks.
Anyway, we went to Hawaii. You probably saw some pictures on Jessie's blog... I've got mooooore. So, first up is one of our camping places. We camped our way around the Big Island. A highly recommended way to do. The only catch is maybe get a hotel for the weekends because that's when the locals come out and the campgrounds are packed. Maybe if you get in on a Thursday and stick around at the same place Friday and Saturday you'll be golden but if you're motoring around the island like we were you might have trouble getting a spot.
That was like up on the NE part of the island. Totally rocking.
As you might expect, saw quite a bit of funky stuff there. Here are a few favorites. I was pretty fascinated by these wild chickens. They're like regular domestic chickens species-wise but they just run aroud on their own. Being a little suspicious of chickens in general. This picture was from the first place we camped at Ho'okeena I think. This was just in the parking lot for the beach and campground and the chickens were totally just hanging out.
If I had unlimited money I'd have one of these in every bathroom in the house. We saw this in an awesome diner / tourist trap ala Russian American Company (more upscale and pushing the arty things than most places). So, this was all done by hand. I wish I could find inspiration from the toilet like this person seems to.
One thing I remember from growing up was the marlin Dr. Dehnke had or maybe talked about in his dentist office. Up in Fairbanks, the Marlin has one. So, pretty cool fish right. Check it out. This is the world record Marlin and it's on display at a gas station north of Kona. How ridiculous is that. I guess it gets more exposure this way but definitely a nontraditional place to put it.
Finally, here's a few pictures from Waipio valley in the north part of the island. It was totally awesome and the icing on the cake here was a hippy getting naked and running out into the ocean to wash off across a creek from us. He put on a good show for the tourists, that's for sure.
Anyway, we went to Hawaii. You probably saw some pictures on Jessie's blog... I've got mooooore. So, first up is one of our camping places. We camped our way around the Big Island. A highly recommended way to do. The only catch is maybe get a hotel for the weekends because that's when the locals come out and the campgrounds are packed. Maybe if you get in on a Thursday and stick around at the same place Friday and Saturday you'll be golden but if you're motoring around the island like we were you might have trouble getting a spot.
That was like up on the NE part of the island. Totally rocking.
As you might expect, saw quite a bit of funky stuff there. Here are a few favorites. I was pretty fascinated by these wild chickens. They're like regular domestic chickens species-wise but they just run aroud on their own. Being a little suspicious of chickens in general. This picture was from the first place we camped at Ho'okeena I think. This was just in the parking lot for the beach and campground and the chickens were totally just hanging out.
If I had unlimited money I'd have one of these in every bathroom in the house. We saw this in an awesome diner / tourist trap ala Russian American Company (more upscale and pushing the arty things than most places). So, this was all done by hand. I wish I could find inspiration from the toilet like this person seems to.
One thing I remember from growing up was the marlin Dr. Dehnke had or maybe talked about in his dentist office. Up in Fairbanks, the Marlin has one. So, pretty cool fish right. Check it out. This is the world record Marlin and it's on display at a gas station north of Kona. How ridiculous is that. I guess it gets more exposure this way but definitely a nontraditional place to put it.
Finally, here's a few pictures from Waipio valley in the north part of the island. It was totally awesome and the icing on the cake here was a hippy getting naked and running out into the ocean to wash off across a creek from us. He put on a good show for the tourists, that's for sure.
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we went to Waipio too! Did you walk down to the beach? We were followed by some ferral horses while we were down there...
also, there were stray chickens in the town i grew up in so I think it might be fairly common.
also, there were stray chickens in the town i grew up in so I think it might be fairly common.
Yeah, we spent a half day down on the beach reading our books. It was awesomely peaceful down there.
Those chickens.. I guess it's probably since I'm such a not farm person but seeing them out in the wild like that was just completely foreign to me.
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Those chickens.. I guess it's probably since I'm such a not farm person but seeing them out in the wild like that was just completely foreign to me.
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