We visited the Salt water pool, a remnant from an old hotel destroyed by a hurricane years ago. When the waves are big, the kids love to stand on its outer wall and be knocked into the pool by the waves. Great place to watch the sunset too! We enjoyed visiting with new friends Jen and Steve.

The volcano Hualālai is directly to the east of Kona and as the sun rises over it, it illuminates the clouds over the ocean to our west and reflects on the sea this golden color. The birds wake us up as the sun rises. Most days we don’t miss we sunrise or Sunset!

There are clouds in the horizon every night so far, so no spectacular green flashes, but still lovely evenings.

We are off again! Can you guess where we will be tonight? Here is a hint

And good afternoon from Maui, a short stopover for lunch

And we are home at the Royal Sea Cliff on Kona!

Our unit right now has this view!

We seldom post while we are here in Kona, because we aren’t doing the tourist things…. we’ve done them before. And this stay we have no company joining us, unfortunately! So pictures will probably be only when we get chances to view whales or dolphins. Enjoy the view with us!

You may get a sunset or 2 from here, but there is rain in the forecast for a few days and in the evenings, clouds obscured the view of the sun setting.

We have had a few days to sort and review images and here are a few we consider the best reminders of this great experience!

I posted a gallery of them at our Smugmug account.

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What is so incredible about Antarctica is you can go on the same or sister ships 10 times and see totally different bays or islands!  You won’t have the same trip twice!  Weather is KING and FLEXIBILITY is required!  We are so thankful we got to go experience it and grateful to the crew and expedition teams for all we did and saw!  And we thank God for returning safely after seeing His amazing creation! 

We are home now.   Feel free to comment with any  questions about our trip, or the  Extensions in Iguazu and Patagonia.
We had a wonderful trip!  
Polaris, Dec.28

We did come home to the Atmospheric River in So Cal!   Pouring all night and day!  Rain flooded patio!  but all is well.

Our last day of sightseeing…. Viking reserved the Ritz Carlton for us!

We walked Around our hotel in the new section of Santiago.

Great lunch of Empanadas

City tour by bus

Centennial Park with black neck swans and cignets

Lunch and relaxing before our flight home

We left the Torres Del Paine National Park for a bus trip down to Punta Arena for our flight to Santiago for one last night and afternoon city tour sightseeing.

On the way we saw a couple Gauchos, Chileans cowboys, herding cattle. Going into Chile we saw them herding sheep, from a distance. Today one Gaucho was friendly, waved to us, as our guide Georgina explained his equipment and clothing