After our massive first day of traveling round the Big Island the next day we took it easy and just chillaxed by the pool and watched a copious amount of trashy American tv. The next day we went down to a beach near our hotel, we had been promised by one of the workers at our hotel that we would see green turtles if we went into the water. So off we went down to the beach a bit skeptical that we would see a turtle. I thought we were going to have to head out way ...

If any of you ever have the pleasure to fly to the Big Island make sure that you let Hawaiian Air that you don't want to sit in row 26 of the plane. Leah and I found out the hard way, row 26 has no window to view the beautiful flight between the Hawaiian islands. So after a boring flight we landed in Hilo, and picked up our a car (a big chevy) and decided our first destination would be the volcano! We arrived at the volcano national park and worked out the best ...

This morning we decided we'd head to Pearl Harbour. At the harbour there are 4 or more large memorials that you are able to visit, the main memorial there and the one we visisted is the USS Arizona. Personally I (Mark) find it difficult to explain the experience and feelings of the visit, but came away learning a lot about the tragic event and how it all unfolded. I also wish I could upload some photo's of our visit but since I'm typing this up on mum's iPad i ca...

Aloha from Hawaii!! Leah and I had a none eventful flight from Sydney to Honolulu, except we were rather annoyed that we had a new plane for the short domestic trip and a crappy old plane for the long international flight. We also both thought that time travel would be something available in the future but after crossing the international date line into what we thought was the morning before..... We actually ended up in the 1970's Woah! The Honolulu Internatio...