Ho`omaluhia Botanical Garden, 5/25/20

I met up with Derek and Lorraine @9:00. Later we saw Dewey and Angie.

Ducks!!!

The next 2 are with my iPhone 8

I like this simple sign.

Around 10:45, we called it quits. It was very hot and wearing a face mask made this photo outing challenging. Thank you Derek for encouraging me to come out, although as I mentioned it was hot, it was still fun.

Kualoa Reginal Park, 5/23/20

This blog will be in two parts. The first part are photos from my Canon camera. The second part are photos I made with my iPhone8 and I posted on Instagram and Facebook

Gary and I met Derek and Lorraine @8:30. 

The water was super clear.

In the second part, I will tell you more about this sea slug

I will also tell you more about this female seal, which Derek and Gary kept telling me "seal". Me, "huh?" Lorraine luckily was swimming nearby so she also got to see this adorable seal.

Second part: 

The life of a seal. This lady is waiting for the seal to turn over to see if she is the seal from Niihau. Apparently, they are "branded" or tagged depending on which island they are from. There were lots of large sand crabs, thankfully only this one was out of its tunnel. You can tell by the size of the openings with lard sand mounds. Oh boy, dessert from Waiahole Poi Factory - so yummy "Sweet Waiahole Lady" (warm kulolo topped with coconut ice cream).

Along here, we saw this sea slug. We sprinkled ocean water on it to see its reaction.

I wanted to include the video but it would not upload. Basically we sprinkled ocean water on it and it undulated.

We were fortunate the weather was really nice. Thanks Derek for asking if anyone wanted to join you and Lorraine.

Makapu'u Lighthouse Trail, 5/17/20

I met up with Derek and Lorraine around 9:30. I took a chance and went to the parking lot although it was full. I was very fortunate that 2 cars were leaving. The car in front of me got the first one. We took the Makapu'u trail.

The black thing sticking up, I think is what we call Pele's chair.

 A few flowers...

Even if it is a weed

 We think someone was in trouble

Looks like Molokai

Diamond Head in the far distance

A closer view of Diamond Head. Do you see what I see? Actually my friend Gary pointed this out a while back. Diamond Head from this view looks like a lady sleeping with her head on the left. The first indent is the bottom of her chin then it slopes up creating her chest and tummy, then it tapers down.

 Not going there.

We went to the left about 10 steps forward and we got this beautiful view

All in all, it looked like a regular day since 99.5 percent were not wearing face masks. There were a lot of people. Derek, Lorraine, myself and maybe 3 other people did. When I was leaving, Christine from Denny's recognized me. She said they will be open in a couple of weeks which I believe is June 5. Christine is the best waitress, so I was happy to see her. Her friend's car was parking perpendicular to mine but not blocking, plus they were at their car.

It was really a beautiful day. I am glad we went!!!