There are so many great things about Hawai’ian vacation: turquoise waters, warm nights, fragrant plumeria flowers, male dancers who look masculine for a change… but the best thing is that cozy feeling of being a child again in Mother Nature’s generous lap. The Big Island like no other brings you close to her wild side. While driving past endless black fields of dated lava flow, one can’t help but fully realize the incomparability of a human life to geological times. Mountains rise and fall, volcanoes erupt and cool, crops are buried under flaming lava to grow back again in mere thousands of years, and all of it is happening with total disregard for miniscule us. Like microscopic eyelash mites, eliminated by a lazy rub, we live and build, and travel, and pray to be spared, only to discover once again that we cannot poss-ii-ibly be-e-e he-e-e-ard, and that this tiny moment of happiness with pina colada in hand while looking at basking sea turtles on a sparkling beach is all we have. I am not going to list here hotel names or best places to devour catch of the day, local attractions or recommended catamaran tours in Hawai’i. Those are insignificant little things that might distract you from the major enjoyment. Just go there and feel alive. Even if for a short while.
Three sea turtles at the Four Seasons Hotel beach. Photo by Yuri Krasov.
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