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Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 8:14:22 PM    808 50th State Posts: 535 Joined: 5/14/2007 From: OAHU, HAWAII Status: offline Aloha Everyone, Went on a short vacation to the Big Island of Hawaii, had a lot of fun seeing the sites, to bad it was too short, thanks to Tony (Rockbot) he took the time to take me on some wild 45 degree angle hikes on some steep ravines and some digging of course, both of us had a lot of fun talking stores, cracking jokes, had a lot of laughs talking about cries...wah wah wah...He also invited me over a few times for dinner after a day of him showing me around, he showed me the true local style hospitality, his wife is a awesome cook, he is blessed with a awesome family...thanks Tony. Picture of Waipo Valley. Attachment (1) _____________________________ ALOHA EARL Post #: 1

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 8:15:59 PM    808 50th State Posts: 535 Joined: 5/14/2007 From: OAHU, HAWAII Status: offline Digging a test hole Attachment (1) _____________________________ ALOHA EARL (in reply to 808 50th State) Post #: 2

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 8:22:52 PM    808 50th State Posts: 535 Joined: 5/14/2007 From: OAHU, HAWAII Status: offline Finding my first Big Island bottle too bad though this place is really old mid to late 1800's all we found was a bunch of steak bones and lots of champagne bottles, looks like all they did was eat steaks and get drunk everyday, LOL,  Tony did tell me this area produced a few good bottles. Attachment (1) _____________________________ ALOHA EARL (in reply to 808 50th State) Post #: 3

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 8:24:18 PM    MIdigger   Posts: 657 Joined: 3/3/2010 Status: offline Wow, that first picture is suitable for framing. What a spectacular view! And, finding bottles! (in reply to 808 50th State) Post #: 4

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 8:24:35 PM    808 50th State Posts: 535 Joined: 5/14/2007 From: OAHU, HAWAII Status: offline Tony down in there. Attachment (1) _____________________________ ALOHA EARL (in reply to 808 50th State) Post #: 5

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 8:25:59 PM    808 50th State Posts: 535 Joined: 5/14/2007 From: OAHU, HAWAII Status: offline What is it? Attachment (1) _____________________________ ALOHA EARL (in reply to 808 50th State) Post #: 6

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 8:27:36 PM    808 50th State Posts: 535 Joined: 5/14/2007 From: OAHU, HAWAII Status: offline Tony playing a flute? Just one of things we joked around with and had a few laughs. _____________________________ ALOHA EARL (in reply to 808 50th State) Post #: 7

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 8:28:42 PM    808 50th State Posts: 535 Joined: 5/14/2007 From: OAHU, HAWAII Status: offline OOPS forgot the picture. Attachment (1) _____________________________ ALOHA EARL (in reply to 808 50th State) Post #: 8

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 8:30:08 PM    808 50th State Posts: 535 Joined: 5/14/2007 From: OAHU, HAWAII Status: offline Playing the flute hahahahaha... Attachment (1) _____________________________ ALOHA EARL (in reply to 808 50th State) Post #: 9

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 8:35:10 PM    808 50th State Posts: 535 Joined: 5/14/2007 From: OAHU, HAWAII Status: offline  Another day....One of out wild hikes, burn barrens....LOL. Picture of one of the steep ravines that we just got down from, this picture is looking up from the dry river bed Attachment (1) _____________________________ ALOHA EARL (in reply to 808 50th State) Post #: 10

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 8:41:12 PM    808 50th State Posts: 535 Joined: 5/14/2007 From: OAHU, HAWAII Status: offline Same place... it was a new area that Tony wanted to explore more, we did find some abm sodas, and fragments of older stuffs, the area was down a ravine, in the old days they dump the rubbish into ravine.  Attachment (1) _____________________________ ALOHA EARL (in reply to 808 50th State) Post #: 11

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 8:45:39 PM    808 50th State Posts: 535 Joined: 5/14/2007 From: OAHU, HAWAII Status: offline Another day we went hiking in another area another wild hike LOL tracking though bushes, we came to a area with bottles just scattered all over the place, just not enough time to dig. Attachment (1) _____________________________ ALOHA EARL (in reply to 808 50th State) Post #: 12

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 8:47:07 PM    808 50th State Posts: 535 Joined: 5/14/2007 From: OAHU, HAWAII Status: offline Stone liner privy...another time, vacation was just too short. Attachment (1) _____________________________ ALOHA EARL (in reply to 808 50th State) Post #: 13

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 8:58:56 PM    808 50th State Posts: 535 Joined: 5/14/2007 From: OAHU, HAWAII Status: offline All in all it was a great vacation, I really needed to take sometime off from work and the everyday hustle and bustle of living in Honolulu, the Big Island is such a beautiful island different from the rest especially where I live on the island of Oahu, if anyone has the chance to see Hawaii, you should try to make it to the Big Island or even to the other islands, each island is differs from each other...Halemamau crater, the most active volcano and still making the Big Island even bigger.   Attachment (1) _____________________________ ALOHA EARL (in reply to 808 50th State) Post #: 14

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 9:08:21 PM    808 50th State Posts: 535 Joined: 5/14/2007 From: OAHU, HAWAII Status: offline Last day waiting at the Hilo airport for my flight back to Oahu, I just wanted to add, believe it or not I met Tony on line on Antique Bottle Net a while ago, we communicated first by email then eventually by phone, if it wasn't for this site I would have never met a awesome person, friends for life...SUPPORT ANTIQUE BOTTLE NET... I DO...THANKS AND ALOHA...EARL Attachment (1) _____________________________ ALOHA EARL (in reply to 808 50th State) Post #: 15

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 9:14:35 PM    JOETHECROW Posts: 9278 Joined: 9/3/2005 From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy) Status: offline Earl and Tony!....Looks like a great time vacationing, digging hiking,....such crazy beautiful terrain....Glad you guys got to hook up. _____________________________ Joe ``````````````````````````````````` In the woods we return to reason and faith. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTyuRd9zSg&feature=related (in reply to 808 50th State) Post #: 16

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 9:18:24 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 11897 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: offline (in reply to 808 50th State) Post #: 17

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 9:32:37 PM    THE BADGER   Posts: 548 Joined: 3/2/2009 From: BETHLEHEM,PA. Status: online way to go guys love hearing stories of the long distance digs theres usually something to take home with you,and friendships made. hey earl the smile said it all. thanks for the story and the awesome pictures. BADGER (in reply to 808 50th State) Post #: 18

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 9:58:21 PM    madman Posts: 10084 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: online nice pix looks lke a great adventure! _____________________________ always looking for, Toledo Ohio, Knoxville Tn. milks pharms and sodas, (in reply to THE BADGER) Post #: 19

RE: Big Island Adventure - 8/31/2010 10:12:10 PM    blobbottlebob Posts: 3354 Joined: 12/20/2005 From: Wisconsin Status: offline Great thread. Congrats Earl & Tony. Wish I lived closer to some of the wonderful people here and got to meet them. (in reply to madman) Post #: 20

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