Saturday, November 29, 2008

Yakking, Snorkeling & The Painted Church

In the early 1800's, the Priest made it his mission to paint frescos on the walls of this church ranging from the Temptation of Christ to an image of hell.



So, all of these pictures are completely out of order. The end pictures show us kayaking across the Bay. We arrived at a memorial to Captain Cook where there was a beautiful reef to snorkel.




Crissy finally succumbed and saw lots of amazing fish-one with a corn cob nose.


The first time Captain Cook landed in Hawaii--the natives thought he was a god. He returned later and the natives provisions were used up from the first trip--so things began to unravel. He invited the king on board with the intentions of kidnapping him and a skirmish occurred and Cook was killed. The natives decapitated his body, and then ransomed him back to his crew for a proper sea burial.










2 comments:

Sherrie said...

It looks like you guys are having an awesome time!! happy thanksgiving and lots of love to all of you from all of us in snow country :) blog-hugs, too!!

The Wades said...

Looks like things are rough there in Hawaii! Hope you survive the torture! ;)

You're such a cute family!