SATURDAY ON THE EXTREME NORTH SHORE WITH THE WINNS.

The famous "Bottle Brush Tree" that nobody knows about because they are going by it at 55 mph. Who put the bottles on the tree that hangs over a cliff, and how do they stay that way, the winds are fierce up here, like blow you off your feet fierce?

Speaking of fierce, who's two fierce friends of ours on vacation, Gary and Karen Winn.
Fun, fun day, with fun, fun friends.



Pololu Valley was gotten to, down a very rocky path, and it was steep, athough short, it had a beautiful black sands beach and lagoon. This is the extreme north shore of the big island, the road ends here.



This was a very big beach, with very few people and no one went in the water, very, very rough and twirling like a washing machine, no rhythm, just mayhem, looks good, but junk, ya know.

Looking back up the river to the lagoon, great drift wood for hiking sticks, that's what they are looking for, Karen found a great one and gave it to me for the painful hike back up the boulder strewn trail.

Just a cool looking picture from the beach back up the other side of the hills in the lagoon. 
People live down here illegally.



Illegal homesteaders, I didn't know if they were Hawaiian, or just hippies, but they built a cool Swiss Family type of home, they had the whole place for themselves. You can see there little blue tarp, lean to house beyond the hammock.



Two families on vacation from Portland, joining their friend who lives in the
the little town of Hawi, who owns this cool, old, Hilo Sampan Dodge, people use to
take rides in this for 5 cents and tour Hilo. Cool huh?

A very Swiss Family Tree House in a yard on the way to the Pololu lookout.
This was a massive well built tree house in a massive Banyan tree in a persons
front yard, drive too fast, or talk too much and you miss wonderful sights.

In the same neighborhood as the tree house was this very old,
little church and cemetery, it was touching to walk and read
the old tombstones and go inside this church. The stain glass
windows had peoples names and the dates of their birth and death, family members gave money for
these beautiful windows. They were 100 years old.

This same little town was the birth place of the great King Kamehameha,
who fought some great battles to unite all the islands, after which the islands
continued to grow and thrive. He is very revered, and rightly so, he died in Kona
right by where the pier is today. In fact we swim at the beach where his Ali'i house is still seen.



This is the very cool, old style Hawaiian town of Hawi, we ate
at the highly touted Bamboo Restaurant and had ice cream back across the street.
Both came highly recommended and neither disappointed.



This is the best ice cream place in Hawaii, and these are our Canadian friends we happened upon.

We ate inside by the screen doors and listened to Hawaiian music
as the gentle breeze filled our hearts, while the food filled our stomachs.

Our four ice cream chairs on the street, watching life ease by.

A cute store next to our ice cream chairs, shopping was a must for Karen and Carol.