and still home in time for dinner. Yeah, it's odd to be confined to a rock in the middle of the ocean but it's a big island and there's a lot to see. And we saw it all while Jolene was here. We 4-wheeled to Makalawena where Sarah and I decided it would be a good idea to go swimming with Humpback whales-a mother and her calf. Gutsy Sarah got closer than I did- I like adventure but swimming closer than 50 feet from a 45-ton whale and her baby is where I draw the line.
We saw several other beaches, the Waipio Valley overlook, Akaka Falls, HI Volcanoes Nat. Park where we went to the end of the Thurston Lava Tube, Punalu`u Black Sand Beach, we did a little off-roading and watched the sun set from the southern most point in the US. We stargazed at the 9,000 foot level of Mauna Kea where we saw the rings around Saturn and the Andromeda Galaxy, which is 2.4 million light years away. (obviously, we didn't do all this in one day, it took a whole weekend) We finished off Jolene's visit with a whale watch, and that's where I took this photo of a baby Humpback doing a spy hop:
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