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Day 216

Friday, July 27, 2012

Miscellaneous shots from the backyard and house.  The venerable Canon Powershot SX100IS is being retired… Wide angle: 28mm Telephoto: 200mm A flower from the back yard. A flower from inside the house. And the newest member of the Barrow Camera Collection is: A Nikon Coolpix P7100.  It was a tough choice between this and the […]

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Day 207

Sunday, July 22, 2012

More of our last day on Kauai…trying to catch all of the scenic views we’d seen or missed… We even got once of these for Lugnut!  (I think he ate it…) We stopped a lot.  This is looking back West over Hanalei. We hit a few of the smaller roads we had missed. That got […]

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Day 138: A new bloom in the garden!

Monday, May 21, 2012

Our old clothesline wore out and collapsed.  Then this spring the half whiskey barrel it was in did the same. So it was off to Big R to get a new one…the State Liquor store was out…Hic! Careful measuring got me a box to cut out that would fit over the old post/pipe the clothesline […]

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Day 117: Spring has sprung!

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Buds on the trees out back this weekend.  I was testing my new Canon 100mm macro lens a bit. (1/1000, f8, 100mm, ISO 320, -1.2 stop) (1/500, f8, 100mm, ISO 320, -1/2 stop) Now, back to our regularly schedule Hawai’i adventure! ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 112: Back to the Tracks!

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Once again, we depart from our lovely, if very oversized, rowboat, to see the sites. The first thing we see is one of the few, if not only, bits of four lane highway on Kauai!  A Kakui nut lei. We have come to the Kauai Plantation to ride the train.  Afterwards there was also a […]

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Day 110: The Big Island Day Two pt 6

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

One last photo near the Church! They do seem to like their coffee on Kona… … …… … On the corner of Walmart… Of course, Harley Davidson. Finally, where we broke our silence on Facebook!  Internet was $0.40/minute (onboard the ship…it is free at the Kona Brewing Co.)!  We waited. A delicious pizza, with far […]

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Day 109: The Big Island Day Two pt 5

Saturday, April 14, 2012

“St. Benedict’s Painted Church was erected in 1899 by Father John Velghe. Without any professional training and using house paint on ordinary wood he beautified the church with his paintings. In those days few Hawaiians could read and so he taught with pictures-most successfully.” ~from The Painted Church Website… The road up to the church was so twisty […]

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Day 100: The Big Island Day One, pt 2

Monday, April 9, 2012

After the waterfall we headed to the Akatsuka Orchid Gardens. There are hundreds of Orchids of all different varieties here.  Some are quite colorful. And some are plain. We had 25 minutes, including the restroom break. That is the downside to the Shore Excursions or organized tours. You are on a schedule, and never quite […]

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Day 94: Our Next Morning on Maui!

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

We got up entirely too early the next morning: 3:45am is when we had to be at the bus and off of the Boat! We were up at that unhappy hour to go to the very top of Maui, the Crater on top of Haleakala, to watch the sunrise! It was pretty neat, as you […]

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Day 93: Maui! pt 2

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Of course, more waterfalls! Another view: There isn’t much to do in Hana…it is just a great, friendly, remote place to live.  The road in was a burro trail until WWII.  It wasn’t paved until the 1970’s, and then only as one lane most of the time.  We had lunch at a nice gift shop […]

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