{"id":5251,"date":"2023-01-10T01:07:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T06:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/?p=5251"},"modified":"2023-01-10T01:07:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T06:07:09","slug":"day-65-hulibee-palace-in-kona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/?p=5251","title":{"rendered":"Day 65, Hulibee Palace in Kona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thursday, January 5, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dee and Fred drove us to the Honolulu airport, and by 11:40am we were in Kona airport on the Big island of Hawaii. We rented a car (drive on right???), and drove to the cute town of Kona. We had time before our 2:30pm tour for lunch at an oceanfront restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hulibee Palace is run by the Daughters of Hawaii. Our tour guide was a very tall Hawaiian named \u201cSunshine\u201d! The little palace sits on a prime piece of real estate, on the ocean, in the center of Kona. In the late 1920\u2019s, one of the steamship companies wanted to build a huge hotel where the palace stood. The Daughters of Hawaii saved the palace and preserved a green oasis in the center of Kona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After our tour we bought fruit at the farmer\u2019s market, checked into our Airbnb, and went for a swim in the condo\u2019s pool. Dinner by the ocean watching the sunset. Jim keeps hoping to see the green flash, but too many clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Goodbye to Fred and Dee\u2019s home on Oahu. What a beautiful spot on the ocean!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Quick flight on Hawaiian Airlines to the Big Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lunch by the ocean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our shared dessert was called a Mudslide. Yum!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hulibee Palace from the street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Front door<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Upstairs porch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View from the ocean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Information on one of the royal\u2019s bedroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Love the Hawaiian quilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of the downstairs rooms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View from the balcony of our 3rd floor walk up Airbnb condo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Loved the pool!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sunset but no green flash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My Mai Tai!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dinner by the ocean, a block from our condo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, January 5, 2023. Dee and Fred drove us to the Honolulu airport, and by 11:40am we were in Kona airport on the Big island of Hawaii. We rented a car (drive on right???), and drove to the cute town of Kona. We had time before our 2:30pm tour for lunch at an oceanfront restaurant. … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","explorer-thumbnail-icon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5p6Ax-1mH","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5251"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5269,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251\/revisions\/5269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}