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04/26/17 Hawaii, Day Six - Anini Beach & Napoli Coast Sunset Cruise

All week we've been saying we were going to do one big thing.  Only as we looked into the big things we realized they cost a lot more than we wanted to spend.  It was almost $500 to do a helicopter ride and 4-wheelers were about $400.  The sunset cruise was $175/head -- until Tuesday night.  When we looked it up and found them for $125 each!!!  So Wednesday morning we called and scheduled the cruise for that evening. It was SO fun!!!

We had about 5 hours to go play before our scheduled cruise time so we tried Anini Beach for snorkeling.   We had heard it was pretty good.  But while we were there we weren't seeing much.  A guy came over and told us about a turtle he and his wife had seen.  It was a BIG turtle!!!  We chased it around a little while but he was pretty fast and we soon lost him. 

Then I saw this colorful fish go by...so I put my camera down and snapped a picture. When we got back we were surprised to see our fish!!  haha (see photo below)

Several people had told us we needed to try Duane's Ono Burger so we went down to Anahole and found the little shack.  It really was a tiny place we never would have found without someone telling us to look for it.  It was very expensive burgers...they were good but not as good as they were expensive!!!  Andy's was covered in too much sauce so he was a little disappointed.  But it was a fun experience!

Our Napoli Cruise was so fun and really a highlight of the trip.  So glad we did it.  We got on a boat with 18 people and cruised 11 miles up the coast. We were able to see the trail that people walk (that looked like a HARD hike!)  It usually takes 2 days to hike it and we were able to cruise it in about an hour. How cool is that?!  

We met a french girl and some people from Australia and a guy that looked like Tony Romo from the Cowboys.  Really beautiful cruise. 





Big sea Turtle


Look honey!!!! A rainbow fish!










A guy was Parasurfing - super cool to watch!
BBQ ono burger with big mounds of cheese
Andy's was just like this only a double!

Duane's Ono Char-Burger

















I wanted to get a Aloha juice here --
 but I was never hungry when we were here.  Cool looking shop!

Napoli Coast Sunset Cruise meeting shack

Napoli Coast Cruise ship







St. Regis hotel in Princeville
This place is REALLY pricey!!!
Never went there..they have only valet parking. 




























































































Tony Romo look alike



A little creepy that I'm taking pix of this guy
without him knowing...but doesn't he look like Tony Romo? 

Our co-captain Shawn










Cute little French friend we made



French lady took our pix...she did a good job!
We're cute!







This rock is so big.
The two little marks in the middle of the photo are people!





There are 4 goats in this picture going up the mountain.










Hanalei Bay

Wedding photos on the beach



















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