Hawaii Trip Week 2

In our second week in Hawaii we did more water sports, toured more farms and basically just enjoyed relaxing and exploring the Big Island.  Here are pictures from our second week:


In these pictures we're doing more water sports. At the snorkeling spot we even saw an eel! Snorkeling was my favorite activity to do in Hawaii by far.



Visiting Hilo's break wall we finally got to see some sea turtles. I wish we could have seen them when we were snorkeling, but we didn't this time. Here are pictures from the break wall in Hilo.



These pictures are from my Mom's friend Wendy's house. Wendy lives with her sister and brother-in-law and her brother-in-law Jeffrey has created an amazing backyard garden. They could seriously charge admission! Jeffrey gave us the best white pineapple to eat too - they are only available in Hawaii in July so that was really cool. Here are pictures from their amazing backyard garden.



One of our last farm tours was to the Hamakua Mushroom farm. It was a really unique farm in that it was all indoors. They use a Japanese technique for growing their mushrooms in jars inside with special light and humidity controlled rooms. Here are our pictures from the Hamakua Mushroom farm tour.



After the mushroom farm tour we were very near Laupahoehoe Point, which is one of our favorite spots. It's the site of a 1946 tsunami that destroyed a school. It's got a sad history, but the spot is just beautiful and the water is unbelievable - the pictures so not even begin to do it justice. Here are our pictures from Laupahoehoe Point.



Our last couple of days we visited two of the libraries where my Mom has worked and also our last farm visit was Paradise Bee Ranch that's actually located in my Mom's neighborhood. We really, really enjoyed our visit and got to see lots of awesome things. Here are our last few pictures from our Hawaii vacation.