(I think this post just sat around as a draft for a long time accidentally... so here it is now!)
Traveling 20 miles north from Honaunau to Kailua-Kona is crazy. You leave the jungle and enter a desert, trade Coqui frogs for noisy pigeons, and apparently give up healthy bananas for infected ones...
Just for comparison
Honaunau Kailua-Kona
But we also saw this, so the trade from jungle to urban desert wasn't all bad:
We are staying right on Ali'i Drive, which is the main tourist drag. Mostly there are the same black, rocky beaches as Honaunau, but some have a bit of a twist. Here, you can see someone used lava rocks to build up a hot tub...
We miss a lot about being on the jungl-y side of the island, but here is one thing we don't miss:
And even though we didn't have all the ducks and chickens, cats and dogs, chameleons and garden spiders, I was very glad to see that the geckos here are almost as abundant!
And that's it! Then we flew home and moved all our stuff from Durham, NC to Roanoke, VA.
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