Whales, Women's March and Super Wolf Moon

An event filled week just passed. We went whale watching out of Kailua-Kona on a gorgeous winter (meaning less warm) day. Whales, of course, are hard to film but with perseverence, we got a couple of shots that are worth sharing. The dolphins (both spinner and bottle nose) were fun. The dolphins like to tease the whales and keeping an eye on the dolphins often helped with seeing where a whale might surface.










The view from the boat on this beautiful clear date permitted a nice view of the volcano that we live on:  Hualalai.  The big island is composed of 5 volcanoes and the last eruption of ours was in the early 1800's. In our experience, it has been rare to see Hualalai so clearly without clouds shrowding the top.  




This was a week of large surf. The winds were up and the surf was high and dangerous. On the north shore of some of the islands, surfers were out in force. On our island there were some surfers (probably crazy) but the general information was: stay out of the water.





This was the 3rd straight year we have participated in the Women's March. Of course, in Kailua-Kona, the weather is better (the first year was cold and rainy in San Francisco), and the march smaller. However, the people were just as interesting as were the signs. But the need for the Women's March, unfortunately, still needs to occur. 





We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the building inspector. We cannot have the first cement pour until the inspection. This first pour will be 58 cubic yards--6 truck loads of cement coming up to our property. Mike is going to LA on Monday for witness work and will be back on Wednesday. He may miss the pour which will disappoint him. Oh well--there will be 4 more. The site is ready. Those verticle pieces of rebar are for the future retaining wall.


Tonight, we got to see the Super Blood Wolf Moon eclipse. Exciting to see. There were clouds and we had to wait for them to part, but part they did. Success based on being patient. The sunset pictures were done while we ate dinner and waited for moon-rise. Great fun.







The pictures were hand-held as the tripods are in the container.

Health and happiness to one and all. We miss all of you and think often of you.

Love

Judy and Mike

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
  Finally catching up on Judy and Mike's adventures As most of you know by now, we left the island at the end of March, fully vaccinated at the time. We got to spend a month in Carson City participating in our daughter and her family's life for the month. Very enjoyable. Our son and his family came from New York in August and we had a delightful couple of weeks with them. The boys are getting so big and mature. We actually had the complete family together for one weekend which was truly special. While in Carson City, we began planning for our return to our home in Concord at the end of May. When Hawaii sold, it included much of the furniture so we had to build a household. Maintenance and upgrades were due in Concord. So between figuring out furniture including beds, timing of deliveries and repairs, it was an interesting daily challenge. We also reclaimed the yard and made necessary upgrades including a new fence since part of the old one fell over during a windstorm when we w
Read more

Farewell Hawaii house

Image
Well, it is official. Papers signed Monday. And, it appears that our VW eGolf (electric) will also sell this week. We head to Reno on March 30 and stay in Carson City for the entire month of April. We will get to see our older grandchildren and spend time with them. Oh, and of course, their parents, our daughter and her husband, Kim & Sven. We are leaving behind here in Hawaii all of Hamilton's dog friends and their families who have become part of our community. We spent lots of hours in the small dog park and the dogs play joyfully as the owners are entertained and chat about life here, families all over the world and the latest on the COVID vaccination front. We will also miss our dear neighbors to the North of us who have shared so much over the last year and then some. We are now at Kona Zona where we lived before and it has been fun to be part of this little neighborhood. We are looking forward to seeing family and friends on the mainland and part of us will be missing ou
Read more

A long overdue update

Image
Much as happened since our last blog post. We have a new president and vice president, our democracy has been attacked in a way never before seen or contemplated by the founding fathers, our lovely cat, Lucy, had to be put down, and, because of the poor quality of medical care on this island, we have decided to move back to California and sell the Hawaii house.  This past week has been stormy here on the big island. We went down to a beach to watch the ginormous waves. These are some of the results. Please enjoy. Our cat, Lucy, had irritable bowel syndrome since we got her 10 years ago. Unfortunately, it was a long, slow decline and finally when our 7 pound cat shrunk to 5 pounds, was clearly in pain and not eating, we knew it was time. Poor Hamilton was beside himself for a few days when Lucy did not come home with us.  We made the decision to sell the house around thanksgiving time and spent weeks moving items out of the house into a storage unit. It feels like we are living in a mod
Read more