Winters in Alaska are long, cold, and dark. We have learned that these conditions necessitate warm sunny winter vacations. So we went to Hawaii for almost two weeks in January. The first week was spent on Hawaii (the big island). We visited Jen's oldest friend Tracy, from MN. She works at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. She gave us the grand tour. We snorkeled, hiked, and generally played tourist. We also ran into Luke and Emily on the Kona side of the island one afternoon and had lunch and a beach walk.
The second week of the trip, we met up with Matt and Jaime (fellow Denali Rangers) on Kauai.
Here we enjoyed more snorkeling and hiking, much good food and drink, and nightly whale watching from the back yard of our rental condo. We also did some birding, adding some rare birds such as various Honeycreepers and this amazing Red-Crested Cardinal.
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