tal cars. And in just a few minutes after that we arrived at the Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park. It was HOT but well worth the trek. Notice the striking Resemblance...
This is the shoreline part of the park. 
And to the right is a picture of a little friend we found near the beach.
And now off to our Seaquest excursion.
I chose the seaquest excu
rsion because it promised to have fewer people on the excursion and we got what I was promised. There were 6 of us on the raft, plus our guide. Bill, Karen, Steve and myself, plus 2 people that were staying nearby. We weren't really expecting to see dolphins, but we did. LOTS of them. These pictures are a bit out of order as the dolphins showed up AFTER our snorkel. I had to use the underwater camera, so they look pretty far away. But, as we stayed in one spot they came closer and closer to the raft until I was able to get this shot. 
rsion because it promised to have fewer people on the excursion and we got what I was promised. There were 6 of us on the raft, plus our guide. Bill, Karen, Steve and myself, plus 2 people that were staying nearby. We weren't really expecting to see dolphins, but we did. LOTS of them. These pictures are a bit out of order as the dolphins showed up AFTER our snorkel. I had to use the underwater camera, so they look pretty far away. But, as we stayed in one spot they came closer and closer to the raft until I was able to get this shot. 
A really great time. We would highly recommend this excursion! Here's the website for Seaquest Adventures www.seaquesthawaii.com/
If I recall correctly Bill gave it a 3 out of 2!
The snorkeling was AWEsome too.
We rented a car and drove ourselves to the excurision which ended up costing us around 1/2 of what it would have cost to book it through the cruise ship. Plus the rental car allowed us to see some other sites that we wouldn't have been able to see.
We had planned to hit the Kona marketplace as well to check out an artist there. But we ran out of time. HOWEVER, the guys dropped Karen and myself off so we managed to find the Kona Scrapbook store -which any scrapper would be well advised to visit (here's the link http://www.konascrapbooks.com/). The website is not very detailed but when you visit the store there's tons of good stuff to build your Hawaii memories with.
And we found a Quilt shop (this one was Karen's idea). It's very close to the pier. In fact it's in a little mall just up the hill from the pier. Stay on the road that leads into the pier and walk up the hill. There's a little mall on the left hand side and the name was Quilt Passions (i think). We did get there just as it was closing so we didn't get to see much, but they had some really great looking patterns etc. If I was more of a quilter i probably would of purchased something. Guess we should leave something to do on the next trip to Kona.
We were pretty late getting back to the ship but I there was at least one more tender after the one Karen and I caught so we did manage to get back to the ship in time.
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