Our first Hawaiian Island is the Big Island. We landed at Kona after a relatively smooth sailing from Alaska.

We took a tour to the United States ONLY sea horse farm. Besides sea horses, we got to see lava up close as the entire sea horse farm was built on a lava flow.

We are looking forward to walking on a black lava beach later.

Back to sea horses…

 It was quite amazing to hear the story of how the sea horses have been all but wiped out in our seas. Between the fish tanks where the seahorse will only last a couple of weeks or the Asian cultures belief in the sea horse for medicinal purposes.

What the sea horse farm is trying to do is breed sea horses that will eat frozen shrimp and survive years in the fish tank. They have accomplished this and now their sea horses life to at least 18 years and counting.

Here is Rexie with a sea horse wrapped around her finger. It was amazing.

More of Hawaii next time.