#A Cruisy Day
It was a bit of a bummer of a morning today. Bron, Ben, Matthew and Emily were booked to go on a submarine to see the coral and marine in Kona bay. As Thomas was too young for the submarine I had booked for the two of us to go on a Glass Bottomed Boat instead. Kona pier isn’t big enough for the cruise ship so we anchored off the coast and took little boats to the site. These are the same boats they would use on the case of emergencies and it was good to see they all worked.
The tour was a bit of a letdown as they put us on the wrong bus. The were a bunch of us waiting at the same place and then one person came and corralled us all onto the bus. They checked our ticket and let us on. I thought something was amiss when we turned away from the coastline and started going up hill. We stopped at a chocolate farm and got to sample some chocolates. At this point I asked the driver what time we would be fine and it dawned on the two of us that we were on the wrong tour. We called an uber and headed back to the pier. Unfortunately we were to late to join our own tour and missed out.
We waited for Bron and the others to arrive and then grabbed lunch at a nearby cafe. Ben apparently had had a panic attack while on the submarine and want feeling very good. Bron headed back to the ship with him and Thomas whol while the rest of us went on a historical cruise.
The afternoon cruise went all the way down the West coast of the Big Island down to the Captain Cook Memorial. It was a great your with lots of information on the history of the island. Hawaii had been invaded by the Polynesians and the British over the past 1000 years and the doesn’t seem to be any animosity towards any of these civilisations, just an acceptance that it is part their history. More interestingly they have still preserved, what they call, Hawaiian way of life and values.
After dinner, Emily, Matthew and I went to see a magic show on the ship. It was quite a lot of fun and the kids absolutely loved it. They even picked up some of the cards he threw into the audience and got him to sign it afterwards.
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