Hawaii, the Big Island – Part 1

With mixed feelings, we’re back home from our week on the big island of Hawaii. It’s nice to be home in some ways, but we really enjoyed our stay in Hawaii and we’d have happily spent more time there.

It’s going to take some time to digest things, sort through photos, and put together some posts and galleries. Particularly since I’m back in the real world and have a lot of other things to be getting done now. So inconvenient! Although they’re not all bad…

My intention is to write up a trip report over a few blog posts. I’m still mulling over how to split things up – probably chronologically – but there’s definitely too much for just one post, or probably one gallery.

I did throw together some trip statistics, because that’s the way my brain works sometimes. I was going to post them here, but I think I’m going to save most of them for the summary post… Well, most of them anyway. I will mention that I found a whopping eight geocaches, although there were some remarkable ones in that small group.

I also found two dozen geocaching.com-loggable benchmarks, as well as the benchmark commemorating the 1874 Transit of Venus observation expedition. Among the benchmarks and geocaches I found were the southernmost ones I have ever found – and I think the southernmost ones in all the U.S., for that matter. I also found the highest benchmark and geocache that I’ve ever found, up over 13,800′ on top of Mauna Kea. Along the way, my trusty Garmin 60Cx passed 40,000 miles on the odometer, discounting the air miles.

That’s all from this initial post for now. I’m going to try to knock out one post a day if I can… We’ll see how that goes.

Mahalo!