HAWAII Photos!! Days 1-3

Hello Everyone!! I made it to Kona, Hawaii and I'm just loving it here....I might just not come home ;)
Here is the beginning of my photo blog, starting from the air and going to my first real walk around Kona.


We left the Vancouver Airport just after 6am, and the sun was just rising over coastal mountain ranges in western Washington.
The tops of the mountains glowed in vivid pinks and oranges; unfortunately this picture doesn't even come close...but at least you get a bit of an idea.





After a short flight from Vancouver, we arrived in San Fransisco to wait out an eight hour layover.
It was cold and rainy there (although it doesn't really look it in this picture) and since we didn't bring warm jackets, we decided to hang around the airport until our connecting flight arrived.

The most interesting things to see in the airport, other than the people, were the BART trains that ran between terminal buildings. They look pretty old-fashioned and are cuter than your average sky-train.








We finally arrived in Kona, Hawaii, around 9:30pm (1:30am Sparwood time) after another five hours on a plane. After our long day of traveling, all any of us were ready to do was sleep.

Here is the view of our resort from the lanai (Hawaiian for balcony) of our third floor suite.








The palms directly in from of our balcony are home to many small geckos





On our first full day out on the town, we walked 2.5 to 3 kilometers along the sea wall from our resort to downtown Kona.

One of the smaller banyan trees along Alii Drive, which is main street in Kona. Yes...this is a small one, in comparison to some of the other banyan trees around here.










This is the largest and heartiest banyan tree on Alii Drive. In 1971, a hurricane ripped this tree's trunk into pieces, and has since grown back together into a mesh-like wall between the three main trunks (as seen in the next photos)

The ocean here is beautiful; the water is so clear and blue, it looks like something out of a tropical travel brochure, which I guess it is. As well, the fish and other underwater life is very brightly coloured, it's amazing to see!! We bought a cheap underwater film camera, but unfortunately there is no way to scan the developed photos onto the computer.