After breakfasting at the hotel, we hopped into the car and headed off around the southern coastline. At Punaluu Beach we had a short stop to view the black sand beach and a green turtle sun baking.Eventually, we arrived at the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, where we paid $10 to enter and stopped first at the Kilauea Visitor's Center to pick up a map and some information. We drove around Crater Rim Drive, which originally circled the Kilauea Volcano, but f...

Today is Easter Saturday. We departed Brisbane on time at 9:55 pm aboard Hawaiian Airlines Flight HA444 for the 9 hour flight to Honolulu. As we will be crossing the International Date Line, we set our watches back 20 hours and were served a light meal of sandwiches before settling back to catch some sleep.Feeling a bit like groundhog day, we woke for the second time on Easter Saturday and were served breakfast at 9:30 am before coming in to magnificent views ov...