So my friend Greg - formerly my Mauna Kea tour guide took me on adventures today. I spent the morning chilling out at the beach, then he came and got me at my hostel and we drove dorn the highway to a seemingly random spot. Pulled over. Hopped out. Hiked across lava. Young black lava. And ended up at this beach where there were tons of turtles just basking in the sun. We waded across a lagoon type deal to an almost island and walked along taking pictures and thro...

Went to the beach this morning/early afternoon. At 3 I headed to the marina for my dive trip with Big Island Divers. They were cool guys. We did a late afternoon dive around a reef which was cool. Saw tons of fish and hundreds of garden ells, which was neat to see. Then we chilled on the boat til it was dark and did a night dive with manta rays, which is supposed to be one of the best dives in the world and probably IS the best night dive. They informed me that m...

Checked out of my hostel and headed west. Drove over the middle of the island to Kona. The weather was horrible for the east side of the drive and then BOOM - sun. Weather in Kona was much much nicer. Headed out for my Mauna Kea tour at 2pm, I was the first pickup so I got SHOTGUN! Our next pickup was at the airport like 25-30 mins away so my tour guide and I totally bonded on the drive. For those of you who don't know: Mauna Kea (English pronunciation: /ˌmɔ...

I had booked a helicopter tour over the volcano for the mornig but the weather was too poor to go. They had room on their 2:30 flight for 1 more so I booked that time and went to a couple of waterfalls and stuff just to kill some time. Headed back to the airport and once again too crappy to go... Although the time in between my times got to go.. Just saying... So after that was cancelled I decided to drive to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. I drove the rim driv...

Well, I left Oahu today and headed to the Big Island. The flight was about 50 minutes. It was raining when I arrived :(, grabbed my car and headed to my hostel after getting a bite to eat. I just hung around there most of the day because I was so tired and the weather was so crappy. Plus Hilo doesn't look like much of a town and I don't think I'm missing much out there....