P2P: Hawaiian Island Discovery

Monday, July 10:by Ryan Wilber
Hilo, Day 7

Today we woke up at 5:00 and got packed for today. We went to Ken’s and ate pancakes, eggs, bacon, and sausage. Then half of us went swimming and exploring a small island in a cove. Then I went canoeing in a single hull canoe. It was soooo cool. Then my group went to the hotel to do laundry and call home. [Photo: Marna and her delicious chocolate "Nemo" cake!]

We finally did our laundry. I got my dirty clothes and got the dry clothes out of the dryer. I also got the wet clothes in the dryer. Then I put my dirty clothes in the washer. I tried to call my parents on a pay phone but they didn’t answer. [Photo: Jordan, Nolan and Cole search the laundry piles for their clothes. Thanks to Jill and her laundry helpers for cleaning up the delegation and making us presentable!]


We headed down to a beach and met Captain Kiko. We went sailing in his double hull canoe. We got close to another beach and swam to it. It was hard and fun to get back on the boat. The water was freezing. We ate chicken and apples. Then we played King and Conqueror. We ate cake in honor of Marna's B-day. We got back to the hotel and it started to rain.

I packed my bags and we went to dinner. The chicken was O.K. The band played Happy Birthday to Marna. After the meeting we played cards, watched poker, got packed, and went to bed. The day was awesome.

Monday, July 10: by Robbie DiPaola

We woke up and went to Ken's Pancake House and had pancakes, bacon, sausage, and eggs. After that we walked back and got into our swimsuits and walked to a cove, with little islands all over the cove. We saw a ton of fish and crabs. We swam there for 45 minutes and then walked back to the beach and said ALOHA to Captain Kiko.

We helped him get the double-hull canoe (Wa'akaulua) into the water and then 8 people at a time went canoeing. It was awesome! It was easy to paddle because Captain Kiko was helping with his huge paddle. Captain Kiko told us about a sailboat that sunk in the ocean and he described how to make a canoe. We got back and played in the sand for awhile and then walked back and had to do laundry.

[Photo: The cove after breakfast where we swam, ate, and met Capt. Kiko.] We met back at the cove for lunch, which was chicken wings, vegetables and potato chips and we had birthday cake for Marna. We went back to our rooms to get ready to go to a museum, but it started raining so we shopped at Uncle Billy's General Store. We chilled in our rooms until supper at 5:30. We went to Uncle Billy's Fish and Steak House for dinner. We had steak, rice and corn and a singer got up on stage and sang Happy Birthday to Marna.

We went back to the poolside and we had our nightly meeting, but had to go inside when it started raining again. We learned a dance for the Kapuna's to thank them for what they taught us. We went to our rooms until lights out and now the seventh day is over.

Monday July 10, 7:39 p.m.: by Wesley Peng

Today has been so awesome. This morning we went to Ken’s House of Pancakes for breakfast. There I had number 18. In it were eggs, some sausage, bacon, and scrumptious pancakes. After breakfast, we split up into two groups. One group was numbers 1-20 and the other group was number 21-39. Since I was number 24, I went with the second group.

Our group went with Jill, Tony, and Jessica. We were the shopping group. The walk to the shopping place was about a mile long. In the middle of the walk, we stopped by a statue of King Kamehemehe. After a few photos, we got back into walking. When we got to the shopping place, most of the stores were not open yet. Since that happened, we decided to first go to the Singing Bridge. After that we found a Tsunami Museum we could go to. In the museum there was an assortment of activities you could do from computers to watching short videos. Then we decided to have a tour.

The tour started out by telling us more about the 1946 and 1960 tsunamis. I learned that tsunamis usually had up to 10 waves and that the second to the fifth wave are the strongest. After, we went into the vault theater to watch 23-minute video. In the video we saw real life footage and heard stories of the survivors. When the video was over, we went outside to look around. Most of the time I was playing the tsunami radar. In it, you could control where the earthquake happened and its magnitude. You could also chose to evacuate Hawaii of not.

Later, we all went shopping. Since Doug, Sean, and I didn’t buy anything, we were at the meeting spot 40-minutes early. When all of us were at the meeting spot we all went back to the hotel to put on sunscreen and our water shoes. Once we were done, we headed for the harbor. There we had lunch.


For lunch we had some chicken wings, chips, and some soda. Today was also Marna’s birthday so we had some birthday cake. After we all finished eating, we split up into our groups again. This time we stayed at the harbor. We went to the Wa’akaulua (the double hull canoe) first. We however didn’t get to paddle very much because the wind from the rain was usually pulling us into the right direction. When we got back to the harbor, it started to rain, but good thing we were doing laundry now. After we were done with our laundry, we made some phone calls home. Later, we went back out to go swimming.

At that time it was pouring rain. We were the only group still outside. Eventually Tony’s group came out again because the rain had stopped. When our swimming time was over, we went back in to get ready for dinner. Today has been a productive day. [Photo: Sean (L), Eddie (R) enjoy dinner at Uncle Billy's while Taylor REALLY enjoys dinner!]