Aloha and apologies for being such a blogless blogger.  The fact is that we've been living the adventure too hard to find time to document it.  Here are a few photos with captions.  I tried adding some video clips but the wi-fi here is just too laid back for that.  Be sure to double click the pictures to get the full effect
The beach below is a few miles north of the airport.  Getting to it involved driving across one of the most extraordinary roads either of us has ever seen, scratch across a huge flow of black lava.

Nearby beach.

One of the highest highlights so far was our excursion on a boat that took us to a famed snorkeling area -- an underwater park.  

Leaving harbour.

En route to awesome snorkeling.

The crew did a terrific job.  We motored for about an hour, during which they got us set up with basic snorkelling gear.  Along the way, we encountered a group of "spinner" dolphins that swam justt inches in front of the prow of the boat (which was going about 20 knots, I would guess) for a minute or two in a stunning and beautiful display that had us laughing with delight.  They seemed jet propelled.  We also saw a couple of huge manta rays.  Once at the "garden," we swam in the 78-degree water for about an hour and a quarter.  Or, rather, we hung out, gawking at the incredible array of goregous fish, corals, anenomes, etc.  Amazing.  Moira's vision is sufficiently limited that the mask didn't work for her, so they gave her a viewing box, an apparatus with a glass plate that can be held on the surface, and that worked beautifully for her.  While we were in the water, a grey whale did some breaching just a few hundred yards away.  On the way back we again saw whales and manta rays.  A terrific experience.

All of that was too exciting to bother with taking photos, so I only have shots of us getting there and back.

Back to harbour.