For our third (and final?) roadtrip of this vacation we headed north then east, first stopping at the Waipi'o Valley which we naively thought we could hike throughout but learned that it was a minimum three day hike to 'check-out'. So we took some pictures with the stop-and-click tourists and moved on eastward with the next stop being Onomea Bay. The area was beautiful and we wished we could have stayed longer than the 30 or so minutes we were there but the BUGS!
Our final stop was Hilo which is not pictured because it is a pretty boring town. After a nice lunch on the bay we paid a brief visit to the rainbow falls and then returned to Kona via the Saddle Road which runs right through the middle of the island, splitting Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.
In consumer product news we are driving a Chevy Impala (which is apparently classified as a 'compact' car here) and it is an oversized, gas guzzling car that is going to cost us a few bucks before we leave the Big Island.
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