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LOCAL ATTRACTIONS

Hawai`i Tropical Botanical Garden

July 24, 2010

Last Saturday, a small group from the Ocean View Garden Club visited the Hawai`i Tropical Botanical Garden just north of Hilo on Onomea Bay. As long as I have lived here, I was not aware this existed. It’s a wonderful place to take visitors and I definitely will go back myself! Admission is $15 per [...]

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Seven-Link Challenge

July 18, 2010

One of the blogs about blogging I read is ProBlogger. That’s a mouthful, isn’t it? This week, there was a challenge to respond to seven categories. I decided to take part, mostly because it requires some thinking about my posts in the past and where I’d like to go in the future. Here are the [...]

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Ocean View Salon

July 10, 2010

  This post is completely out of character for my blog, but it does tell you of one of our local businesses. About two years ago, I treated myself to a pedicure for the first time ever in my life! I always thought I had ugly toes and feet (I still worry about that), but [...]

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Bite Me! Fish Market Bar & Grill

June 19, 2010

  The first time I visited Bite Me! was within the first week it was open, and I was … uh … hooked! I love fresh fish, and if there is anything I love more, it’s fresh fish tacos. I’ve eaten them in many places, and made my own on the beaches of Puerto Peñasco [...]

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Fish Tacos at El Pachuco

May 25, 2010

  In November, I wrote a post about El Pachuco, the Mexican café at the bottom of my road. I love to stop by there to pick up supper for myself as often as I think I can afford the calories. When I drove by yesterday, there was a sign out on the road that [...]

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Road Sights

May 20, 2010

  The theme for NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) is “looking.” So I am always on the lookout for sights along our Hawaii roads that might not be typical in other parts of the world. The sight above is fairly normal on the Big Island – driving into the vog, sulfuric air resulting from our [...]

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Banyan Trees

May 10, 2010

  Don’t you just love the old banyan trees lining Banyan Drive that circles a small peninsula extending out into Hilo Bay? The banyans there were planted as saplings by celebrities a mere 75 years ago. A plaque by each tree tells who planted it and when. The banyan is actually a fig, a member [...]

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Ka’u Coffee Festival

May 8, 2010

  Right away, I headed for the food booths. I know how delicious Pahala foods can be! The 4-H booth served beef plate lunches from home-grown beef.   Typical local-style plate lunch is a meat, “two scoop” rice, and macaroni salad.   Dane and Terri Shibuya are good friends. Dane is the Community Policeman for [...]

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Lava Fields

May 6, 2010

  The theme of “Look Up” this month for NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) can also simply be to “LOOK!” All over our beautiful island we can see evidence of the many lava flows over the years. The ones here in Ocean View are relatively new, ranging from late 1800s to early 1900s. Each day [...]

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Petroglyphs at Punalu`u Beach

December 28, 2009

  When I first moved here, one of my favorite places to visit was Punalu`u Beach, often called the Black Sand Beach. Everything from luaus to committee meetings to camping out takes place there. I still love to sit at one of the picnic benches and simply let the surf pounding on the rocks be [...]

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RMS Queen Mary 2

December 20, 2009

  In March, 2006, Kailua-Kona had the privilege of having the RMS Queen Mary (QM2) sail into our harbor. Fortunately, I happened to be in Kona that day getting my car serviced. I took the picture above from the back yard of the King Kamehameha Hotel in downtown Kona. As I sat on the outside [...]

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Sea Turtles

December 15, 2009

  For quite a few years, I lived right on the ocean. I was so close that the salt spray covered everything in my home. But the view was unbeatable. I watched the surfers at both Banyans and Lyman’s Point. The salt did a lot of damage to my belongings, but I didn’t mind it [...]

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El Pachuco

November 28, 2009

  When I lived in Tucson, I had a friend who was dating a Mexican girl. He went to her family’s home for Thanksgiving dinner where they had a turkey and all the trimmings that we’ve come to expect in the USA. In the middle of the table, however, was an enormous bowl of refried [...]

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