We are almost a week into our stay and have moved on from O'ahu to Big Island. Though overcast and rainy when we first arrived, we've generally experienced good weather for our major outings. We've been to the Polynesian Cultural Center and impressed with the luau and dancing, visited Pearl Harbor Memorials, and strolled Waikiki with fireworks. Our B&B on the Big Island is near Kona on the west coast and the owner is a chef with a grove of coffee trees, avocados, passion fruit (lilikoi), papaya, and bananas, all ripe for the picking. Meals are prepared with fruit fresh from the garden. 
Our B&B host had a dinner for 25 last night, mostly locals, and it was superb. We've been eating well! We visited various beaches today but were warned of particularly high surf. At the black sand beach pictured with high surf and lots of cautionary signs about swimming, we saw a group of four young couples in their 20's get into trouble in a rip current. We signaled to them to go down the beach out of the rip and finally they made it out, but not without some panic and a lot of adrenalin - close call. 
People are drowned there frequently it seems. The last picture is a fifteen foot wave coming in at a spot where we stopped along the coast. It was impressive.
Our B&B host had a dinner for 25 last night, mostly locals, and it was superb. We've been eating well! We visited various beaches today but were warned of particularly high surf. At the black sand beach pictured with high surf and lots of cautionary signs about swimming, we saw a group of four young couples in their 20's get into trouble in a rip current. We signaled to them to go down the beach out of the rip and finally they made it out, but not without some panic and a lot of adrenalin - close call. 
People are drowned there frequently it seems. The last picture is a fifteen foot wave coming in at a spot where we stopped along the coast. It was impressive.
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