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Perfect travel clothes

This time last month I was wandering round Honolulu. To get there I flew 1 hour from Wellington to Auckland, and then around 9 hours on to Honolulu. Check-in, waiting, security, Customs etc added probably another 6 or 7 hours. Being a person who likes to carry gadgets, along with the tickets, pen, immigration forms [...]

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Hawai’i and New Zealand – we have much in common

While I was on the Big Island of Hawai’i I took a couple of tours. One took us up to the summit of Mauna Kea, 4,000 metres above sea level. The other took us across the island and down to the lava at Volcano National Park. The photo of the plant shows an endangered Silver [...]

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In-flight Penguin entertainment for sardines

Earlier this month I flew around 7,000 Km (4,000 miles) from Auckland, New Zealand to Honolulu, Hawai’i, and returned a couple of weeks later. I’ve marked the two locations on the screenshot of a Google map. New Zealand and Hawai’i are remarkably similar in many ways — the subject for another post — but as [...]

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Endless lava makes new land

On my visit to the Big Island I took part in a 12 hour guided tour called Kilauea Volcano Adventure. At around 6 am I drove some 2 or 3 miles north from Kailua-Kona to the pickup point. As first on the bus (the other 9 or 10 passengers were picked up from tourist resorts [...]

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Green turtles by the shore

Between organised tours on the Big Island I spent one day hanging out in Kailua Kona. After a lazy morning I drove along the waterfront, ending up at Kahalu’u Bay, once a sacred and life-giving place, now a popular destination for snorkelling, surfing and lying on the beach. I ate an ice cream and watched [...]

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Mauna Kea: the sacred high desert

After being invited to teach some courses in Honolulu I recognised the opportunity to add on a trip to Mauna Kea on The Big Island. I booked my Mauna Kea Sunset and Stargazing tour with Mauna Kea Summit Adventures who kept me well-informed with friendly and helpful emails, even reminding me of the itinerary the [...]

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