The Joys of Retirement Production Company

Better known as the Punch bowl. Beautiful setting for military internment for war dead, since Pearl Harbor.

We enjoy the GyPSy Guide tours on the phone app and Oahu is no exception. The commentary and driving instructions are great! Today we drove the island circle for the full day, with a stop at the National cemetery ( next post), the north shore beaches, and back thru the Pali.

The go to place for malasadas in Honolulu. Only half hour wait.

We visited the inside of the crater!

We started our sight seeing today with Pearl Harbor since weather was calm. ( last year we couldn’t enter the memorial because the waves were too choppy).

The Modern, a Diamond resort hotel.

After a little exploring around our resort we found the pool! And restaurants

I just realized, we have talked a lot about the areas of the Big Island. This map may help you get the big picture. Excuse the strip across, just a printer error. But it does highlight where Kona is, right on the left end of it. The volcano right behind our resort is Hualalai It’s a 2.5 hr drive down to Volcanos National Park or over to Hilo

The area around Volcano is excellent for orchids, Hamakua coast have ouch botanical gardens too. Even the dry side, leeward, around Kona, has Beautiful Flowers