After listening to all you guys/gals talking about your summertime trips for a couple of months now, I just had to share today's adventure with you.  We took off from Hilo, Hawaii this morning and drove about 60 miles up the Hamakua coast (to the north) to the Parker Ranch (once the largest privately owned cattle ranch in the United States, believe it or not).  At the Waimea (Kamuela) end of the ranch we turned down Mud Lane (VERY appropriately named) and made our way to our friend's house near the pastures above the Waipio Valley.  Deep blue skies with puffy white clouds greeted us around the valley... an area that is often (and for every day this past week) very cloudy and rainy.

Daddeo made it slipping and sliding a bit thru the cow pastures to the now abandoned cane fields above the valley... the syncro performed flawlessly as we made our way between trees and up and down the overgrown, muddy lanes leading to the falls.  Once there, we swam in the pool below the forty foot waterfall, took pictures, ate snacks and drank sodas.  What a fabulous day... Hawaii doesn't get much better than that!  What great fun to work out the syncro and enjoy one of the coolest spots I know of on this island.

If any of you syncronauts (or vanagonites) would like to see pictures of this idyllic location,. let me know and I will p-mail them to you.  Sorry, I don't have a website to post them on at the moment.

Aloha,

Mick Kalber
89 Syncro Westy "Daddeo"
Tropical Visions Video, Inc.
62 Halaulani Place
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
808-935-5557
808-935-0066 (fax)
hotlava@interpac.net
www.volcanoscapes.com

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