Kona Lifestyle

Today we wake up for the first time in our new vacation home and get to enjoy our first breakfast on Big Island with a view over Kona. Somehow it already feels like a Legoland landscape - everything is there, both the airport and the city and harbor. It's a bit cooler on our terrace than we're used to from the Maui temperatures, so we might need a jacket.

But we don't linger too long at breakfast, instead we leave early for our favorite snorkeling bay - Honaunau Bay. The drive is a bit longer, but after 45 minutes we arrive and jump into the water. There are already some snorkelers in the water, it's Sunday in Hawaii and the locals are enjoying their paradise too! And as soon as we hold the snorkel mask under water, we feel right at home again - everything is exactly the same as last year - as if we never left. Unlike Maui, we don't have to swim several hundred meters to the reef, but have the latter right beneath us after entering the water. This sight is simply unique...

After snorkeling, we drive past one of the 'alternative swimming pools', where I can swim my laps. Unlike the well-known swimming pool in Kona, where you swim in the blazing sun at any time of the day, it's raining here in the pool of Konawaena High School. So actually very pleasant for swimming and I actually see some triathletes next to me in the lanes. But so far no big celebrities - but there are still two weeks until the Ironman.

Then we quickly go home, pack a few things for a picnic in Kona, and then go to the famous pier of the city, where we first strengthen ourselves with delicious pineapple and co. We enjoy the hustle and bustle around us, on the left gray rain clouds dominate the scene and on the right the sun shines intensely - occasionally we get caught by a raindrop or two. In front of us in the ocean we watch a triathlete swimming and numerous local bathers splashing around. The highlight here is a dog on a boogie board, we can hardly take our eyes off him and his master.

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Then we take a stroll through the small town before we watch the sunset from yesterday's location - Kahului Beach. It's fantastic and we enjoy the moment - you simply have to see it for yourself and no photo can even come close to capturing it. So today our camera stays in the car and we store everything in our heads.

Finally, we go home for good after this eventful day. Here I still have to deal with some annoying university matters - that's what happens when you're bothered even during semester break - what would we do if we didn't have internet here... But following the Hawaiian motto 'Hang Loose', I managed to handle everything and now we enjoy the croaking of the Kona Coquis (frogs typical of the local region). They are probably singing us their lullaby - it's about time, if that's not the perfect condition for our beauty sleep.