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05/02/2026

Dolphins. Swimming the iron man course with us. That was Friday. Mahalo, Hawaii. ❤️🌋🧜🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🏄🏽‍♂️🧜🏽‍♂️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬❤️

The Ironman World Championship is held in Kona every October, and throughout the year triathletes can be seen training for each of the legs. The swim course remains “set up” throughout the year, which is to say there is a buoy with the ironman logo placed about 1.3 miles from the town pier. Ther...

05/01/2026

How many places in the world can you swim from a black sand beach to a white sand beach? Not many, but here in , it’s just one of so many special swims. Massage for worked muscles, a glorious sunset and lovely chatter over delicious dinner between fast friends. ❤️🧜🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🧜🏽‍♂️🏄🏽‍♂️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🌺🌋❤️

Kahalu’u State Park is, to me, the heartbeat of this island. It’s a black sand beach with a lava corridor into the ocean. Locals and tourists arrive here to swim, snorkel, picnic, and talk story. There’s a beat-up pavilion with a tin roof that’s been patched a hundred times, a lifeguard towe...

04/30/2026

A boat day! And Jenny is here so cue the dolphins! We reach points south in and swim with all manner of wonders. 🧜🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🧜🏽‍♂️🏄🏽‍♂️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🐬🐬🐬🐙🐙🐙🐙🌋🌺❤️

Hawaii is our only land-based trip, but we still do a full day on a boat every Wednesday here. Captain Momi met us in the parking lot at the marina, as the charter company’s office was damaged in a series of storms here last month. We loaded up the boat and steamed out of the harbor, immed

04/29/2026

Singing the blues in Kua Bay, running rocks for Hawaiian play, Tuesday was full and fabulous on . 🧜🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🏄🏽‍♂️🧜🏽‍♂️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️👩🏼‍🍳👨🏻‍🍳🐢🪨🪨💙🩵🌋🌴

When I was a young child, I’d see advertisements for tropical vacations with pictures of white sand beaches and impossibly turquoise water. I wanted to jump right into the page, splashing and swimming with dolphins and turtles. 50 years later, I do this all the time, and it’s everything I’d ho...

04/28/2026

If only every Monday was a Monday. Cue the turtles. 🧜🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🧜🏽‍♂️🏄🏽‍♂️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢👩🏼‍🍳👨🏻‍🍳🌴🌋🌺

Beach 69, so named for the number of a telephone pole near the park entrance, is steps from our house here in Hawaii. We swim in Waialea Bay almost every day, and this morning I checked out the conditions with Nancy. We were thrilled to see flat, calm water. The whole group soon jumped in, and w

04/27/2026

Aloha to our guests! How about a citrus boost, a bouncy swim and a fresh coconut? This is Hawaii and we are fully immersed in this island’s bounty on day 1. 🧜🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🧜🏽‍♂️🧜🏻‍♂️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️👩🏼‍🍳👨🏼‍🍳🌋🌴🥥🍹🌺

Our home base this week is the Treadwell house, named for a prominent west coast physician who purchased a number of lots here in the 1930s and 40s. The design of the home is what I refer to as mid-century Poly-Scandi, having both Polynesian open-air living concepts and Scandinavian simplicity. It c

04/26/2026

Hawai’I always gives us a welcome like no other. We are reunited with our Ohana and kicking off a great week of adventures. Aloha! 🧜🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🌋❤️

It’s 5,100 miles from Bath, Maine to Kona, Hawaii, or about 3 movies, several word puzzles, and 1 paperback book. Heather and I arrive here 2 days early to get over the jet lag, catch up with friends, scout potential new swims, and set up the hale (house). We drive to Portland, ME, park at the bus...

04/06/2026

Our final morning in Bermuda included rare birds and whales breaching, a fishy shipwreck and an unusual exit. The most amazing thing was that we arrived home in Maine in daylight! Bermuda is a tropical wonder so close to home. Will it become our next new destination? 🧜🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🇧🇲🤞🏼

A Lonely? Paradise Even after being discovered in the 1500s, humans didn’t settle Bermuda until around 1609, which is pretty late, and even then it took a shipwreck to do it. Consider, for comparison, one of the last places outside of the poles to be settled on earth, New Zealand. It was settled b

04/04/2026

Kites, caves, robes and really good people and food. Friday wasn’t just Good, it was great. One more swim adventure before we make the short trip back home. 🧜🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🇧🇲

Quick reminder - SwimVacation founders Hopper and Heather are on a shouting mission in Bermuda, based at the Hamilton Princess Hotel.

04/03/2026

Bermuda gave us another amazing day and a quirky but entertaining night. And the color palette of this place Is too good to be true. is scouting hosted by the . These long days are good indeed. 🧜🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🇧🇲

Inlet or Outlet? We have a lot of irons in the fire here in Bermuda (or is it swizzle sticks in the rum?), with a number of people we’d like to meet and places we’d like to see, so we are not exactly sure what our day is going to look like until after sunrise. We’ve got shipwreck experts, open...

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