Flanagan Clan

On Thursday we made a trip to the southern most tip of the island, and consequently, the southern most tip of the US (yes, contrary to what you may think, it’s not in Florida!). What is at the southern most tip?

Windmills, three rows of broken down, rusty windmills. Further off was a row of more modern, functioning windmills. It was quite windy, and so they want to harness some of that energy somehow!

Blue ocean… the picture doesn’t do it justice, but the water was a deep sapphire blue. So beautiful.

And a rocky, rugged coastline.

Two and a half miles from the southern most tip, there’s a very unique beach that we really wanted to see. It’s a green sand beach. The pictures, again, don’t do justice, but on closer look, we did find the sand to be actually green. It was soooo weird!

Here’s a picture of the green sand beach. To reach the beach, there was a steep path down a rocky cliff… not exactly the sort of thing a pregnant person would want to do, so we didn’t make it down to the actual beach.

Here’s an idea of what that cliff was like.

After persuasion from Andrew, we made our way to a rocky beach, which had some green sand, though it wasn’t the main green sand beach. There, Andrew searched for the semi precious green stone which makes the sand green. There were small chunks of it in the cliffs around the beach.

This is the cliff that we had to climb down in order to get to the rocky beach. It was really dirty.

Our feet, our legs, our hands, our arms were all covered in dirt once we got back from our 5 mile hike and our trip to the rocky beach. It was quite the adventure!

Our lizard friends still liked us, even though we were dirty.

Last night, we went to one of the resort hotels on the beach, and went to see the turtles come out of the water for the night at the hotel’s bar. We sat on a little patio over the water, and there were lights shining on the water so that we could see beautiful tropical fish swimming by as we had our drinks. It was hard to get any good pictures, but we did see lots of turtles and fish. We also got to enjoy yummy tropical drinks while listening to authentic Hawaiian music. Andrew had a passion margarita, and I had a virgin lava flow drink, which was a pina colada with a yummy strawberry syrup at the bottom. It was so fun! Tonight we might try going to another hotel down the beach, where you can watch manta rays swimming at night. Andrew wanted to go snorkeling with the manta rays, but I have to admit that I’m not that comfortable with that idea. Maybe next time we’re in Hawaii, we’ll bring along someone who will go with him :o).

If you look closely, you can see a really pretty Moorish Idol fish in this picture

My yummy drink. Doesn’t it look neat?

That’s all for now! We have two more full days here, and then we’re back home to see our sweet little boys again. As fun as Hawaii has been, I’ve really, really missed them. We’ll be home soon…