Pau Hana

Here in Hawaii, the word "pau" (pow) means done or over and "hana" means work. So, together they mean "after work." Stacey and I have been spending our pau hana time sitting on the old couch on our lanai, checkin out the view. Stacey has found a great website called Pandora that allows you to pick your favorite artist, and it automatically creates a station with alike artists. So we put on some good tunes and watch the sunset. The vog has created some strange, although beautiful sunsets. However, tonight was the first night that we actually watched the sun set into the water instead of a cloudy bank above the horizon. It was SPECTACULAR. I realize that a picture cannot do it justice, but here you go.

In these next two pictures you can see the lights at the north end of town. The bright white lights to the far right are on a soccer field. I know its kinda hard to see in the picture, but all of the street lights in Kona are yellow. This helps keep down the light pollution for the observatory on Mauna Kea. My first experience driving at night was strange, because it constantly feels like you are driving into a yellow traffic light!

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