We have a great view.

The picture tonight is taken from the lanai (deck) of Harry's house. The water is about 3 blocks from here when we walk: less than a block south and then a couple of blocks east to the water. It's such a beautiful blue and we can hear it crashing against the cliffs from here sometimes. It's amazing how quiet it is out here!

We made that walk to the cliffs today. Tomorrow we'll make the same walk, only go a couple more blocks south and go to Kahena Beach. That should be an event. We could see that beach today, but we didn't see any dolphins. They say that dolphins come up to the beach and swim with the people. I'd like to see that. We've seen dolphins before, but not this trip, yet.

Whales; you are probably wondering why I haven't said anything about whales, yet. There are whales on this side of the island, but not very common to see. The whales we are anxious to see are the humpback whales who come down from Alaska from December-March. They are west and north of this island, between the Big Island and Maui. We will see plenty of them when we go up to house-sit at Bob's house as he is on the northern tip of this island and you can see Maui from his house. So, for now, we are thrilled to be here and be getting ready for lots of whale watching next month. (We are on the south east side of the island right now.)

We got some sun on our walk today. Then we came back and pulled some weeds to get some more sun. Then we stayed out there and I read about Maui while we got some more sun. It'll be so good to get some color back and we want to get some gentle time in the sun so that we can sit for hours and watch whales next month without getting burned.

I washed 3 loads of clothes today, so we're ready to go some more days. We spent some time in the hot tub tonight, too. I never made it to that yesterday. I was too tired to even go down there, let alone lift the top off of it and put it back. It was great tonight. The stars are so awesome, here, because it's so dark with no city lights anywhere near. Wow, our God made so many awesome things for us to see!