Another busy day. Karen and I started the day again with snorkeling right by the hotel. It was sunnier than yesterday so the colors came alive. Lots of purple and orange. Later, we met up with Nolan and Sheri Heilman, our new friends from Iowa. We've been doing most of our activities with them. Today's activity was an ATV excursion. We travelled to North Kona. Along the way we could see Mauai. I didn't realize that it was only about 25 miles from the Big Island. Before going on the ATV excursion, we went out to a lookout point that was just gorgeous. Check out the pictures here. Karen was a little apprehensive about the ATV ride at first. She thought at first that she may ride with someone, but decided to get on her own vehicle instead. She was glad she did. We thought that it would be a mild ride, just putzing along. WRONG. They really moved. They took us up along the hills overlooking the ocean. It was spectacular. Then we hit two spots where there were waterfalls. One of them had a pond at the bottom of the falls that we could swim in. The tour guide said the pond had a Hawaiin name that tranlated into "Shrinkage". It was cold (55 degrees). All four of us took a dip in it. It was real nice to get some of the dirt off from the ride. However, we just put it back on, on the ride back to the start.
On the way back to Kona we stopped for ice cream in a neat village and took some pictures. The lava along the coast made for some great photo opportunities. Later in the evening, we went to Bubba Gumps from the move Forest Gump for dinner.Todays Pictures
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