Hawaii 2014

It's becoming a bit of a yearly tradition for us to spend some time in Hawaii - a tradition we really love! This trip definitely didn't disappoint.

We went on two sail boat snorkelling trips and they were both once in a lifetime experiences. On the first trip we saw a pod of over 100 spinner dolphins from the boat.

When we went in the water a little later, a part of the pod came over and swam all around the whole group! This is a screen capture from a video Leif took on his GoPro.

Leif got some other great underwater photos.

Another day, we drove up to the North Shore to take in some huge, powerful waves and watch the surfers.

We went to a local market also and the back garden had some really neat trees.

The second snorkelling trip took us farther up the west coast, and we saw the building where we stayed for the first few nights from the water.

The highlight of the second trip was having two bottlenose dolphins swim along the boat's hull. Just before they took off, I caught one of the dolphins jumping out of the water!

This was the beautiful ocean view from our first place.

And the neatest shell we found on the beach.

For the last week, we stayed by these amazing lagoons.

And these super cool pools!

Last year we didn't have a car so we missed hiking Diamond Head Crater and I didn't want to miss it this year! It was a bit of a climb but the views were so worth it.

So sad to say goodbye, but we will see the Hawaiian sun soon!