Uncle Chris came for the weekend so we took him off to see the real Hawaii-up the Waianae side to Kaeana Point. On the way we saw this parrot in the car,
Erik regularly carries a gallon jug of water on the hikes, a couple passed us with the girl carrying the big backpack and Erik just thought that was the greatest thing,
the blow hole,
Erik had Evan set a paper cup over it, it was pretty funny watching the cup blow up into the air,
the surf was pretty rough,
I couldn't figure out what all these black creatures were all over the rocks, they were pretty resistant to the wave action,
these guys were set up for some heavy duty fishing, Erik talked to one who said they kayak out their lines and fish all night,
we've made a few jokes about this, it's not real attractive in person though,
we couldn't figure out what caused this, the way it was positioned it looked like a meteor hit it,
they saw this cave and decided to explore, I was surprised how long they were gone for,
we have our own Via Appia,
the protected Pacific Shearwater Birds, they are ground nesting and migrate from Tasmania to Alaska stopping in Hawaii, they come to the islands only to breed, they are related to the albatross-which we did not see any of this time-apparently people had been bringing their dogs which were killing the babies who just sit helpless. A giant fence and gate system has been installed, I hope the albatross return, they are spectacular,
two of the three napping monkseals,
big beautiful waves,
we saw another seal on the way back,
after the hike we stopped at the beach,
the boys were brave enough to play in the waves, there were warning signs all over the beach,
Sunday they all hiked Koko Head,
Chris decided this is something he never wanted to do again...my thoughts exactly,
Bellows was the next stop, Erica made some napping seals,
she played in the waves too!
and caught some jellies,
one very strange looking plant,
this is the Pacific Golden Plover that lives in our court and hangs in our yard, in the summer the plovers have black faces and bellies, in the winter they loose the black and keep the brown and white specks. They are amazing like the shearwater birds in that they will fly straight from Alaska to Hawaii for the winter. We joke that's why we only see them walk everywhere now-their little wings are tired and they are sick of flying. This one is pretty fleet footed and we love that it hangs in our court.
Uncle Chris came for the weekend so we took him off to see the real Hawaii-up the Waianae side to Kaeana Point. On the way we saw this parrot in the car,
Erik regularly carries a gallon jug of water on the hikes, a couple passed us with the girl carrying the big backpack and Erik just thought that was the greatest thing,
the blow hole,
Erik had Evan set a paper cup over it, it was pretty funny watching the cup blow up into the air,
the surf was pretty rough,
I couldn't figure out what all these black creatures were all over the rocks, they were pretty resistant to the wave action,
these guys were set up for some heavy duty fishing, Erik talked to one who said they kayak out their lines and fish all night,
we've made a few jokes about this, it's not real attractive in person though,
we couldn't figure out what caused this, the way it was positioned it looked like a meteor hit it,
they saw this cave and decided to explore, I was surprised how long they were gone for,
we have our own Via Appia,
the protected Pacific Shearwater Birds, they are ground nesting and migrate from Tasmania to Alaska stopping in Hawaii, they come to the islands only to breed, they are related to the albatross-which we did not see any of this time-apparently people had been bringing their dogs which were killing the babies who just sit helpless. A giant fence and gate system has been installed, I hope the albatross return, they are spectacular,
two of the three napping monkseals,
big beautiful waves,
we saw another seal on the way back,
after the hike we stopped at the beach,
the boys were brave enough to play in the waves, there were warning signs all over the beach,
Sunday they all hiked Koko Head,
Chris decided this is something he never wanted to do again...my thoughts exactly,
Bellows was the next stop, Erica made some napping seals, 
she played in the waves too!
and caught some jellies,
one very strange looking plant,
this is the Pacific Golden Plover that lives in our court and hangs in our yard, in the summer the plovers have black faces and bellies, in the winter they loose the black and keep the brown and white specks. They are amazing like the shearwater birds in that they will fly straight from Alaska to Hawaii for the winter. We joke that's why we only see them walk everywhere now-their little wings are tired and they are sick of flying. This one is pretty fleet footed and we love that it hangs in our court.
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