We woke up early, and again, this time because Russel and one of his friends came and slamed their hands on the tent. Wohoow, not cool, I almost peed my pants thinking that the cops were called on us camping out. We head out and talk to them, they open a coconut since Corey missed out on that experience the first day, and that would be our breakfast that day. After they left we put our gear on to swim with the turtles. No need to explain how amazing it was since I got that covered yesterday.. hehe
Today, Corey got my pictures with the turtles and we actually had four turtles, not three - four of them! My turtle heaven had expanded!
We went back to the tent and just laied down, trying to figure out what to do next. Then all of a sudden we hear a car honking. Shiet! I almost peed my pants again! I push Corey out (I mean, he's a guy after all) and start pack some of our stuff together so we could stick to our innocent made up explanation if needed.
Turns out it's the lady who owns the house. It's 'only' her office, which would explain why she wasn't there previous days. She's not very happy (I can't blame her), Corey try to calm her down telling her 'our story'. She drives away and we start packing our things together. A little later when we gather our things outside, pick up the trash (most of it from the Hawaiian families who comes every weekend for BBQ) this guy walk up with a raised hand. Great I'm thinking.. We put on our touristy smiles and greet him. Haha good one. He screams at us before we again can tell 'our story'; that we're just there for the day snorkeling with the turtles, keeping our stuff in the tent since Hilo is the rainy side of the island. He make a 180 twist and become super cool. Phew! It's all good, and we don't get in trouble. To our defense, we kind of took the trail before the trespassing sign, so technically we could have been fine. Anyways, fairytale ends with a happily ever after.
We head back to four miles with all our packing trying to figure out where to go next. We chilled with some more new locals, got snacks and had a beer. They head home as the sun goes down and Del & CO pick us up for the Ava bar. We head down town, and see the crowd from far. The tiny calm little bar is over crowded with all kinds of people. What fascinates me the most is all the hippies! Haha, they were so cool with all their clothes (talk about mix n match girls!) and the dancing and the hula-hoops. The music was great, but tonight we didn't go for any Ava, it was enough to just watch the whole thing, besides, I don't know if we would have made it in and out with something actually still in the shells! Way to crowded, but I enjoyed it - like always! :)
After the Ava we meet Matt for the first time since arrival. He'd rent a Jeep and we guided him to the lava in exchange for a ride. Parteeeey! Second night at the lava flow! WOOOPIIIEE!
As we are heading out to the flow this time everything already look different and the flows have moved a lot! We keep on walking, it feel way further this time, when all of a sudden we feel a dramatic heat change. It doesn't come with the winds from the flow, it comes from underneath us! We all stop, freeze and look down. What we see is cracks everywhere and lava shining through!
Again the flow was amazing, and we got bunches of cool pictures, this time Corey got a cool shot with the lava flow and the moon together - I'm so curious about how they all turned out! I'll update the blog with pictures later on.
Later we learned that the cops showed up after we left to arrest/chase away people and they haven't left since. We ended up having some really good luck there, enjoying the lava two nights in a row!
We couldn't stay as long today, the winds were blowing against us and the smell was awful! You could really feel how unhealthy it was to breath in and knowing it's poisoness you don't wanna stick around. When coming back we decide to just camp out on a field, since it got to late and dark to find a new site. Tiered of all the rain and overcast in Hilo we thought it would be time for some sun - after all, we were in Hawaii, it's supposed to be sunny! With that we made plans to hit up Kona the next day.
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