Ken and I just returned from a week on the Big Island of Hawaii with friends, Susan & Gary Neumann, Diane & Gordon Kuenster and Suzy & Moe Krabbe. We enjoyed beautiful weather. We had the opportunity to play a couple of rounds of golf at the Arnold Palmer designed Hapuna Golf Course and at the Mauna Kea Golf Course on the Kohala Coast originally designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. in 1963 and restored by his son, Rees Jones in 2008. Both are spectacular courses on the ocean with sweeping views. It was fun to note on the scorecard that the local rules of play for Holes #3 and #11 at Mauna Kea are that the ocean plays as a Lateral Hazard. With the several balls we mis-hit, it turned out to be quite a hazard! Why is it that water has such magnetic power over golf balls!?
We enjoyed riding the waves in the ocean, drinking mai tais and margaritas poolside, cooking together at the Neumann’s beautiful Kamuela home, dining in local restaurants and arguing politics and religion until all hours of the night.
The real highlight of the trip for me was the day that Susan, Diane and I went zip lining. We had two great guides, Braxton and Bryce, that showed us the “ropes” including how to turn, how to take off running and how to land at the end of the line. We began with a short zipline to get the feel of it and then progressed over a long suspension bridge and another seven increasingly longer and steeper zip lines that at the end had us crossing a deep canyon overlooking a waterfall zipping along at 35 miles per hour. I can’t wait to do this again!
That would be very hard on a hair-do! You are really brave to go zip lining. What a rush.
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