{"id":206,"date":"2011-01-29T14:58:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T00:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/?p=206"},"modified":"2011-01-29T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T00:58:16","slug":"visitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/2011\/01\/29\/visitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two of the parents, and one each of the aunts and the uncles just departed after a ten-day visit to the Big Island. We were five nights in a house in Puna, and four in a condo in South Kohala.<\/p>\n

During the stay, we were good little tourists, taking part in lava-gawking…<\/p>\n

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…full-moon shoreline-gawking…<\/p>\n

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…volcano-gawking…<\/p>\n

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…sunrise-gawking…<\/p>\n

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…crashing-wave-gawking…<\/p>\n

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… and sunset-gawking…<\/p>\n

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…not to mention body-surfing, snorkeling, shopping, waterfall-gawking, historic-site-hiking, and cetera. The two couples also partook of a Luau.<\/p>\n

(Er, but don’t let slip to the auto-rental outfit news of our ocean-side off-road (very<\/em> off-road, as it happened) driveabout.)<\/p>\n

I heard tell that some of our number weren’t terribly enchanted with Puna’s occasional rain-shower activity; but speaking for myself, I thoroughly enjoyed every second’s exploration of each side of the Big Island — my love of which has been cemented to the degree that I’m nearly certain that I want to make it my permanent home.<\/p>\n

Alas, some sobering news awaited my return to the farm. To wit, the Colony Collapse<\/a> Disorder appears to now be sweeping the Big Island. The farmer had four hives at his other farm, all the bees from which have suddenly died. Also, a bee-keeper friend of his has said that the situation is so dire that he’s picking up and moving to Colorado. This paradisiacal wonderland may soon be a Paradise Lost.<\/p>\n

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