Hawaii – Day 5

We began Day 5 of our Big Island stay with a quick morning trip to Wal-mart to pick up the CD with the underwater photos. The images came out nicely and have been uploaded here.

After a quick morning bite, we headed to a nearby historic park to view hundreds of acres of lava rock of all sizes.

We walked about for a short period as we were trying to kill time for our main event: Whale watching.

We headed out to the marina where we boarded Captain Dan McSweeney’s Whalewatch who guaranteed that we would see whales on our voyage.

We spent about 3 hours on our voyage and we did get to see humpback whales along with some other interesting items.

For one, we got to see Marge vomit in a bag from sea sickness. I then got to see the kids sleep for about an hour of the trip on the way back.

I can’t complain because I got a couple of minutes of shut eye on the trip myself. The hot beating sun with the cool sea breeze mandated a quick nap.

After our exotic trip whale watching, we headed back to the hotel where Marge, Bart and Lisa lounged around the pool. I took a quick walk around the grounds and took some pictures of the nearby fauna. You can see the the big island fauna here.

We headed back to our room to watch our final sunset from this hotel as tomorrow we move on to Hilo.