After finishing our visit to Richardson Beach Park, we headed back to Hilo Airport for our helicopter ride. We choose Blue Hawaiian Helicopters’ Circle of Fire Plus Waterfalls tour.  We choose the Eco-Star helicopter,

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Our second morning was spent visiting several lava rock beaches in Hilo.  My husband and son are avid reef tank enthusiasts and wanted to check out the tide pools at low tide. I don’t even know the name of the first beach we went to, we saw it as we were driving past Liliuokalani Park and Gardens and decided to stop.

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Since we spent the majority of our first day on a plane and there was not a lot of activity to report, I will take a moment to answer the number one question I received about our trip to Hawaii, which was, “Why the Big Island?” When I first started planning my trip,

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May 22nd  (Thursday)

Flight UA 1087   Chi-Lax    12:30-3:06

Flight UA 1004   Lax-Ito       5:08-7:48   2450 Kekuanaoa St. Hilo

Car rental – Enterprise     Full Size Vehicle – $44.99/day  

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