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02-20-2010, 07:15 AM
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Oh if you have never taken a helicopter ride over the islands I highly recommend it! That birds eye view is such an amazing perspective of the island. There's nothing like it. And if you're going to do it, splurge and do the open door one!
This was over Maui      We even saw whales from the helicopter! Sadly I did not get any pictures of them for fear of losing my camera. 
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02-21-2010, 12:44 AM
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 Tony I thought they lifted the carry-on restrictions? There weren't any (many) when we went to phoenix. just the regular liquid and you can take one carry-on and a purse/camera bag etc like it was before.
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02-21-2010, 01:02 AM
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That's true but still there's a LOT of stuff that needs to come along, like you have to have a car seat for the little one and stuff (yes I know some people hold their kids on laps for a flight, if you knew my kids you'd understand why this is not possible in this instance). I'm sure it will be fine but nevertheless I'll still breathe easier when it's all done.
Helicopter ride sounds like fun, but I dunno. We'll see, we promised ourselves each a kid-free excursion, and I'm sorta leaning more towards mountain biking myself but we'll see. I can't seem to find any place to rent me a Hobie Cat, unfortunately all catamaran rentals are more like the 40' variety which would be cool too but it's just not the same.  @Scott - thanks, that's just the info I was hoping for. Golden dwarf eels would be soooooo freakin' cool to see out there!! 
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02-21-2010, 02:29 AM
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You could always rent a CARES harness for the kids. http://www.kidsflysafe.com/
there are a couple of places in town that'll rent them out. Then we just book/rent a child car seat with our car rental. We've never lugged around a car seat on any of our vacations. That's a major pain.
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02-21-2010, 02:57 AM
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I've never - *never* - found a car rental agency that would guarantee a car seat. What happens when you get there and there's nothing? Not really a risk I can take.
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02-21-2010, 03:34 AM
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you have to really keep an eye out for the dwarf morays as they hide a lot. So many things eat them in the wild, which is why they are more docile in our tanks. look for those bright blue eyes! koloa landing is really popular with dives as its a good beginner spot and an easy shore dive, so I would ask the divers if they've seen any dwarf golden morays and where they are. My dive master said they are all over the place but I only saw the one, and it was at that site.
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02-21-2010, 07:06 AM
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Dude, I can't find the moray in my 30" tank so it would be like winning the 6/49 jackpot and I don't mean the podunk little 2 million ones either, more like the 20 million jackpot.
 How deep were they? I don't think I'll be doing any scuba, so it would probably be more like the 100 million jackpot to see one..
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