2nd August '98

Beautiful Hapuna Beach

We went to beach first time since when we visited Big Island. It was Hapuna Beach that we went. I heard that there was one of the famous beaches. So it was a very beautiful beach. The sands of the beach were white, no fine and no big. They did not fly away easily. The sea was true blue, very transparent. If you see the sea from so far, for example, from parking of Hapuna Beach, you can see very beautiful gradation from sky blue to deep marine blue. We played body surfing or played with sand there, because we had no tools for marine sports. I felt very hungry after playing on the beach for few hours all at once. It had pasted at 1:00pm already. I remembered that there was a shop near the parking. I thought that we could buy something to eat. So my son and I went to the shop for getting something for lunch. It was a small shop. It had two counters. One was for first-foods or drinks, and second one was for rental supplies for marine, for example, parasol or boy board. As the shop was a same one building, a same woman made a hamburger and provided a beach parasol. It was a typical family shop. I bought a set of cheeseburger and a turkey sandwich, and three cups of soft drink. We eat them on the beach, because it was no hot with little sunshine. There were two public showers on the beach. But we did not use them, because we were overed by sands again during walking to parking. So we went back to condo and took a shower at the condo pool. We did not only take a shower, but also played in the pool. We went to Waikoloa Village Shopping Center for shopping of few fresh foods. It took about fifteen minutes to go to there by car. Waikoloa Village Shopping Center was very convenient for us, because it had very large super market, which provided many fresh foods. But it was Sunday, today. All small shops were closed unfortunately. There was an American Pizza House. I thought that it was the nearest pizza house from our resort. I like to eat a pizza, which was topped by red peppers, with a glass of beer. I wanted to go to here. But I gave up to do so, because I could not drive a car after drinking beer. It was 6:00pm yet, when we reached the condo. We played tennis today, too, until sunset.