Due to having explored beaches close to the Mauna Kea the previous day (to minimise travelling after the really long day getting to Green Sand Beach), today we went slightly further down the West coast from Mauna Kea, to Kahalu’u. It was a very popular tourist location for snorkelling, possibly because of its proximity to the main town called Kona.

After snorkelling, we had pizzas at a little upstairs restaurant on the main street of Kona, with a view looking down on the main street. The pizza was absolutely delicious, although the iced teas we ordered were literally just that. Tea, that was iced. We are apparently too used to the concept of sugar, with a hint of tea. Tom used about 14 teaspoons of sugar before giving up and realising that it was just never going to be sweet like Lipton iced tea. We then walked around the markets which bored Tom profusely, although he was happy knowing that his wife was happy. We walked up and down the main street looking in all the shops.

For dinner, we ate a more simple meal at the bar of the most posh (because they’re all posh to us) restaurant at the Mauna Kea Beach Resort (where we were staying). We hung around afterwards for some cocktails. Morven had a fancy cocktail that came in a stemless glass. She tried to remember the ingredients of one particular drink, althoughh by the time she finished the drink she had forgotten because she was too drunk. Tom kept drinking Morven’s cocktails instead of his own because he kept picking the disgusting ones. One of which was so disgusting, that he got the bartender to try it, who agreed also that it was disgusting. This was all followed by drunken dancing in the hotel room, which Tom got on video, although publishing has been forbidden on pain of death.