This was to be the day of our excursion to the best beach we had found at Polihale and so preparations were underway with Peter manning the blender as the bag was gathering contents and it was blender bag blender

with a break to explore the rest of the kitchen including Seva's unfinished breakfast as Suzanne oversaw the operation

before Peter completed his operation so that we could hit the roads -- paved and dirt and get to the beach

where a few people were exploring

and the panorama was remarkable but unfortunately the wind was blowing the in wrong direction and to be on the beach was to be sandblasted. so, we made our way back to a south facing beach and brought our things out under a lovely sky and found a place to settle and watch the waves

as I was treated to Seva's mirage woman impression and we then watched the waves as the observant folks came to test the waters as others walked the other way and we decided to head back with a stop at JoJo's to see their awards and partake of their excellent product before recording these roosters and recorded a birthday photo where we were greeted as we made our way to be presented with mai tais which caused Suzanne to dress Hawaiian as the luau began to the amusement of the Kramers as our group photo was taken by this gentleman from Laguna Nigel who was sitting opposite us before music started and i went off to have my face painted for the occasion

with this remarkable result as the pig was brought out for inspection and i was invited to dance the hula with the birthday crowd and here I am being Hawai'ian before returning to my dinner with the ever important poi as the snow progressed through all of the dances of Polynesia

before I posed with the dancers as did Peter.