Today's view from the [car] window
This countryside, with it's red volcanic soil paddocks, dramatically craggy mountains and consistently blue skies was very entertaining on our North Shore road trip today.
First stop, the Dole Plantation where, thanks to Mr early riser we arrived 40 mins before opening so had enough time to visit a local coffee bean farm and partake of their fine fare before returning for a quick visit.
This place is massive, a maze, beautiful lush gardens and a working pineapple plantation.
Back on the road we discovered that our journey was going to be made slightly more interesting with crowds and diversions for some sort of local sporting event, a triathlon maybe. Mike suggested we follow a sign to an historic village sounded fun, however. the traffic was such that we drove through this not uninteresting little town at a pace that allowed him to step out of the passenger seat to assist some locals catch a poor little scared puppy (cutest thing you ever saw) without Tony having to pull over. Our daughter Emily would have been so proud of his efforts to keep that puppy from running into traffic.
At this point I'm pretty sure we drove in a circle, I wasn't driving and am in awe of anyone who can drive on the righthand side of the road, so I didn't mention it. When we were back on the move the scenery was so beautiful. Most spots were pretty crowded but Wendy spotted this and made the "photo stop!" call. Excellent call.
ooooft finally some waves (surprisingly flat out the front of the hotel) and the water was sooo warm and delightful I nearly went in fully clothed (but did not), instead
we designated a touching rock for Bec
We had lunch at the Kualoa ranch and admired the Jurassic park scenery.
Then drove home admiring more mountains,
some of us swam, some of us napped the afternoon away.
We waded through massive crowds, wow there's a lot of people here, at the night markets to not have turkey or onion rings at IHOP for dinner
So pleased you had a touching rock.
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