DST and daylight in Hawaii

So all my friends back on the mainland will be celebrating daylight savings time tonight by gaining one hour of sleep.  Not so here on Hawaii.  Tomorrow, I will be only 4 hours behind my Minnesota friends.  What's an hour on island time?

The real difference with daylight between here and the mainland is its length.  The sun rises about 6:30 and sets about 5:45.  There's about the same amount of daylight in Minnesota right now, but the weather here is more like Minnesota in July-- when there is about 15 hours of daylight.  It's weird to have such pleasant weather with such a short amount of daylight; so much nice weather when it is dark out.

It's pretty nice, weather-wise here. It gets cloudy everyday around 10 AM, which means the sun is not as intense.  Sometimes there is a drizzle around 4 in the afternoon-- then the sun starts going down.*  Cool mornings, with fresh air from the ocean.  Beth and I have been getting up pretty early (5:30-6), partially because we are still adjusting to the time change, partially to take advantage of the weather.  We have been walking down to the beach to watch the sunrise. There wasn't a spectacular sunrise today, because it was cloudy.  Now it is raining.  Apparently, this is one of the 12 statistical rain days in Kailua Kona.  So we'll appreciate it.  But hard for a guy who has to ride his bike around to look at apartments.

Here is a beach picture from this morning:

If you'd like to see something less blurry, you can mail your requests on the box of a Cannon PowerShot SX30 IS

*This is all different for the folks who live up the mountain-- a lot of people here live around 1000' elevation, where it is cooler and cloudier and wetter all the time.  These mountainsides are a new thing for da flatlander, too.