{"id":1303,"date":"2020-11-26T08:01:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T08:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2020-11-26T20:30:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T20:30:48","slug":"hawaii-kona-day-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii &#8211; Kona Day 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Started off the day by visiting Da Poke Shack for lunch. Here are the details:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/food.johnmatienzo.com\/2020\/11\/26\/da-poke-shack\/\">http:\/\/food.johnmatienzo.com\/2020\/11\/26\/da-poke-shack\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After lunch, we headed off to Kealakekua Bay to pick up kayaks for visiting the Captain Cook monument. Used this rental company: https:\/\/fareharbor.com\/embeds\/book\/ehuandkai\/items\/?flow=19754&amp;full-items=yes<\/p>\n<p>Kayaking took about 30 minutes to the monument. The waters for kayaking and snorkeling were not too bad. This bay I supposed to have the best views for snorkeling in Hawaii. I thought the view under the water for snorkeling was ok. The view closer to the edges of the rock walls and shore were better than ones further out. I also added some more snorkeling tips after this trip here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lessons.awesomenessoflife.com\/2020\/11\/24\/snorkeling-tips\/\">http:\/\/lessons.awesomenessoflife.com\/2020\/11\/24\/snorkeling-tips\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After snorkeling, we headed to a hotel bar in the Royal Kona Resort to watch the sunset while drinking pina coladas. You can find the details here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/food.johnmatienzo.com\/2020\/11\/26\/royal-kona-hotel-bar-don-the-beachcomber\/\">http:\/\/food.johnmatienzo.com\/2020\/11\/26\/royal-kona-hotel-bar-don-the-beachcomber\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ended off the day having dinner at Janie&#8217;s where Sam made a veggie pizza (starter kit from Costco, and NJ brought the fake sausage and vegetables), plus lobster pasta.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_7163.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_7163.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_7163-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_7163-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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Here are the details: http:\/\/food.johnmatienzo.com\/2020\/11\/26\/da-poke-shack\/ After lunch, we headed off to Kealakekua Bay to pick up kayaks for visiting the Captain Cook monument. Used this rental company: https:\/\/fareharbor.com\/embeds\/book\/ehuandkai\/items\/?flow=19754&amp;full-items=yes Kayaking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=1303\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[500],"tags":[534,548,549,501,505,502,551,550,536,552],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii-2020","tag-captain-cook","tag-captain-cook-monument","tag-da-poke-shack","tag-hawaii","tag-holualoa","tag-kona","tag-pina-colada","tag-royal-kona-hotel","tag-snorkeling","tag-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}