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just got back from an awesome trip to Kona with Nick’s parents!
Eat
Best Shave Ice – Original Big Island Shave Ice Co (food truck), follow them on FB to be sure you know where they will be. But the Blue Dragon parking lot in Kawaihae is the likely spot.
Best Poke – Da Poke Shack in Kona. Pick your poke and pick your sides for around $10. We got the bowl (comes with rice, sides, 2 flavors of poke) and then added 1/3 lb of just poke. Perfect for a large lunch. Thought the tuna consistency was a little better than Umeke’s but we never had bad poke 🙂
Best (and only) Acai Bowl – Basik Cafe in Kona (and SF!). Just Acai bowls and smoothies. Lots of combinations. The regular is pretty big and the large is huge. Naturally, Nick wanted the large.
Best local food – 808 Grindz Cafe in Kona. Tasty and inexpensive local food – only open for breakfast and lunch.
Local things to try
Apple Bananas – small bananas that taste less banana-y than a banana. I enjoyed them more than a regular banana.
Musubi – rice + seaweed + meat. Sometimes it’s spam, sometimes it’s fried chicken, who even knows!
Macadamia Nuts – Hamakua in Kawaihae had at least 10+ different flavors to taste. They also sell brittle and ice cream! So tasty! Oh, did I mention the coffee too?!
Lava tube exploring! We have some relatives on the big island who took us on a tour towards the end of our trip. We headed to a “secret” lava tube fed by a fresh water spring. It was pitch black and the fresh water pool was totally clear and freezing cold! So much fun!
Kona Recap
- The waves were big and resulted in a donation to the sea. In the form of snorkel + mask (times 2).
- We ate shave ice on 5 different days. Fro yo on one of the non-shave-ice days.
- We received awesome, $35 massages at a massage school south of Kona.
- Saw Venus and Mars almost every night and spotted them back home!
- Lots of whales.
- Fish cleaning the turtles while snorkeling at 2 step beach. Which should really be called, pummeled into the rocks beach.
