Hawaii

We were able to go to Hawaii in March. We stayed at the condo for a week and also stayed with my sister and her family for a while. WE LOVE HAWAII!! We went on a ton of new and exciting hikes, scuba dived and just enjoyed Hawaii. We got there the day before the big earthquake in Japan and there was fear of a tsunami hitting Hawaii, but not much happened. There was a little flooding, but that was all.
While scuba diving we saw a few sea turtles, a monk seal, lobster, all kinds of fish and an eel. We dove a new place that was hard to get to but had some nice corral. We had to hike down a hill to where we were going to enter and had to carry all of our gear down the hill. We also went on a whale watching boat tour where we saw a female whale and her baby breach right in front of us and a helicopter ride that took us to West Maui Mountains. In the mountains is a place called the wall of tears. It is beautiful and you can't get close enough to it hiking. It is an area of green mountain cliffs with quite a few waterfalls flowing down them. It is really breath-taking. We've hiked up and seen it from a distance, but it is much more spectacular from the air!