Day 187 - Waikiki, Hawaii, USA
Day 187 – 12th December 2005 -10:00 GMT Total Miles 36596
Keita and Reece wake Jill and I up around 10:30am and we decide to head to Pearl Harbour. We walk to Ala Moana shopping mall and catch a bus, after several buses turn up we eventually catch the correct one and are on our way. The Bus journey takes about 40 minutes and when we arrive we have to check all bags and purses etc in before we can enter the memorial site.
USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbour
It is free to enter and we start off by watching a 20 minute film about what happened at Pearl Harbour and the history of how America joined the second world war.
Gun Turrett visible on the USS Arizona
Dedication Plaque
We then are taken by boat to the memorial which is actually in the water above the warship USS Arizona as this boat had the most deaths, with over 1100 people dying on board. You can still see oil seeping out of the boat to the surface of the water, many bodies still lie within the sunken vessel.
The USS Arizona Memorial
The USS Arizona Memorial
The boat then takes you back to the shore and we walk around the Memorial Gardens which shows you maps of how the America Fleet were docked on that tragic day of 7th December 1941. Lastly we walked around the museum which has several artefacts from the boats and many letters just written from the men on board. We then had some food and caught the bus back to Ala Moana. I then headed back to the hotel and slept for a couple of hours. We met up with Keita and Reece again at 8pm and we went to a near by pub and had a few drinks and chatted for several hours before returning to hotel and getting some sleep.
Keita and Reece wake Jill and I up around 10:30am and we decide to head to Pearl Harbour. We walk to Ala Moana shopping mall and catch a bus, after several buses turn up we eventually catch the correct one and are on our way. The Bus journey takes about 40 minutes and when we arrive we have to check all bags and purses etc in before we can enter the memorial site.
USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbour
It is free to enter and we start off by watching a 20 minute film about what happened at Pearl Harbour and the history of how America joined the second world war.
Gun Turrett visible on the USS Arizona
Dedication Plaque
We then are taken by boat to the memorial which is actually in the water above the warship USS Arizona as this boat had the most deaths, with over 1100 people dying on board. You can still see oil seeping out of the boat to the surface of the water, many bodies still lie within the sunken vessel.
The USS Arizona Memorial
The USS Arizona Memorial
The boat then takes you back to the shore and we walk around the Memorial Gardens which shows you maps of how the America Fleet were docked on that tragic day of 7th December 1941. Lastly we walked around the museum which has several artefacts from the boats and many letters just written from the men on board. We then had some food and caught the bus back to Ala Moana. I then headed back to the hotel and slept for a couple of hours. We met up with Keita and Reece again at 8pm and we went to a near by pub and had a few drinks and chatted for several hours before returning to hotel and getting some sleep.
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