Thursday 28-11 - Happy Thanksgiving plus a few Items around Hilo

It is the Thanksgiving Holiday today .... so traffic is light which is good but my museum is not open. Anyway, the day stayed sunny and bright, great for waterfall viewing!

The Rainbow Falls are first followed by the Pe'epe's Falls and Boiling Pots. These are both easy walks from the car parks. Ted is in the pictures today.  A coffee break after this "strenuous" two waterfall viewing and then to the Tsunami Museum, which we can now confirm is closed.

We stop at the library to view the Naha Stone, a test for royalty to see if they were worthy. Further down the road is an impressive statue of King Kamehameha The Great the last king to lift up the 2.5 ton Naha Stone!!. A little further on is the avenue of Banyan Trees, planted by some very famous people and the Liliuokalani Gardens, a Japanese themed garden in remembrance of all the pioneer Japanese who came to work in the Sugar Cane industry in the 1860's on wards. Ted gets some pictures here. Plus we get some good photos of Mongooses.

Coconut Island affords us nice views of Hilo, the bay and the very much cloud shrouded peak of Mauna Kea, the highest peak in the whole of Hawaii at 4,200m. After a quick lunch at a local road side stop, we look at the Tsunami Clock of Doom, a survivor of both tsunamis which devastated Hilo last century. It is set to the time of the 1960 tsunami  of 1:04.

The rest of the day is at leisure to catch up with emails and photos. We have a visitor which makes her home in my suitcase. This is Opie, the house cat.

(Have updated 25/11 with photos of the Seahorses)

Rainbow Falls

Pe'epe's Falls / Boiling Pots

Naha Stone

King Kamehameha The Great

Liliuokalani Gardens

Mongoose at Liliuokalani Gardens

Liliuokalani Gardens

Hilo  and bay from Coconut Island

Tsunami Clock of Doom
Opie

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