After supper, Dave was still wondering if he'd be able to walk along the beach near our first snorkeling spot and see Neil Young's house. So we took a drive out and walked along the beach again. At the far end, and across some water, we could see on another beach there was a whole pack of turtles. There wasn't any really good way of getting to them, which sucked. But then, Dave still wanted to see if he could find the house, so we decided to keep dri...

We'd decided in the morning after a lazy breakfast that we would follow Dave and Sue on a trip up island. There are a lot of art communities the further North you seem to go. It's definitely whale season because as we were driving, on the right side was perfect views of the ocean and you'd see whale after whale breaching and jumping. We stopped at several lookout spots to watch them with the binoculars and without. I was pretty lucky because I was on...

Surprisingly, when we woke up it was cloudy out. First time that had happened since we got there. Especially surprising because the side we were staying on is desert and gets almost no rain. Didn't rain at all though, just cloudy. We decided that since we hadn't seen much of the complex we were staying in that we'd go take a look around. We walked up to King's court where there a bunch of restaurants and shops. It was Memorial Day for the US, so ...

We'd already planned the night before that we were going to go on a day trip to the other side of the island. It's the biggest of the Hawaiian islands, but that doesn't mean it takes very long to drive to the other side. Since my parents had been out that way before they knew there was a tropical garden on the way to Hilo, one of the major cities on the island (as in, it has an airport). We weren't sure if we wanted to stop there, but that was the...

After the gardens, we headed into Hilo, a decently-sized city for lunch. We weren't exactly sure where we should stop for lunch, or where we should even head in the city to find something to eat. Once again, thankfully Zach had his phone available, so he checked out restaurants close-by. We finally decided on a place called Pineapples. I mean, that's pretty fitting, right? It was an open restaurant, so you could enjoy the fresh sea air, and they even had...