At 4:30 am (6:30 am in Vancouver) sleep no longer is
possible. The ocean is making a heck of
a ruckus and I can see white-capped swells coming out of the darkness and
crashing onto black lava boulders about 15 meters from my bed. I grab my Nic-stick and sit on the dark Lanai. OMG!
Are those all stars up there?
After staring at the sky’s twinkling canopy for a while it ‘dawns’ on me
how much Vancouverites really paid for cars and personal transportation.
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| Not a city; A cruise ship bringing shoppers to Kona |
Dawn MUST come SOON now, I keep thinking. At 5:30 am, the horizon is still as pitch
dark as one hour earlier. 5 minutes
later I seem to detect that here is a tiny difference in the degree of
pitch-blackness close to where the horizon should be. Could it be that the sea
is slightly more pitch-black than the sky?
At 5:50 am I am showered, ready to go shopping for breakfast materials, and some hesitant sign of dawn has arrived. The shoreline appears out of the darkness to the left and the right.
At 6:20 am I am at the supermarket in the mall. It opens at 7 am, time for another drive and more pictures.
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| from the supermarket parking lot |
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| From a rock in front of the hotel |
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| that ship again |
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| Back at the mall: grocery shopping accomplished |
Then: FINALLY breakfast:
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| Hawaiian sweetbread, pineapple, and Octopus Poke ;-o |
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| Can't really complain about the view |
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