And so on Monday morning we set off first to this Captain Cook area which is on the western part of the Big Island. If i'm not wrong, Captain Cook came to Hawaii but because he mistreated them the Hawaiians killed them. And so that area where he was killed was named after him.
the red jeep!
Tony took the top of our jeep down. I swore i could have killed him coz it was FREEZING. Ok i exaggerate but you get the point. It was about 15 degrees C and as we drove down to the west the elevation got higher so it became cooler.
Nicole's and Noah's jeep
on the way to captain cook's bay we passed by the volcanoes national park. The crater which i visited in March has a new vent, and it's spouting sulphuric gas and all... check out the image of the volcanic plume! So cooL!
oh yes, the captain cook bay has a name as you can see above. The reason why we decided to go here was that this place is renowned for snorkelling, and DOLPHINS! But anyways the dolphins come real early in the morning at around 7am...and by the time we came it was 1015am and we were told that the dolphins had already left.
this is a picture of the bay. Near my thumb, if u zoom in you can see a monument of Captain Cook. We decided not to snorkel here cos the waves were real rough.
and so we head on to the nearby scary statues place to snorkel!
ok it was real cool and the water was deep and everything but most of us got cut all over coz it was real hard to get out of the water cos there were mini sea urchins hiding in the lava flats.
after an hour of snorkelling..
seeriously??haha i asked yoshina why she had to do that and she said..
'oh because i am japanese...'
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