Day 189 - Waikiki, Hawaii, USA
Day 189 – 14th December 2005 -10:00 GMT Total Miles 36717
Got up early and met up with Keita and Reece at 9am. I had to phone home quickly as to fix my parents internet access, then we headed out. We went to National Car Rentals and hired a car for the day so we can drive around the island.
Our Blue Chevrolet
We got given a Blue Chevrolet, Reece decided to drive as we had to pay more for an extra driver, so it was just Reece driving all day. We drove through Waikiki and passed Diamond Head Volcano and then we stopped at Hanauma Bay.
Me at Hanauma Bay
Hanauma Bay
Hanauma Bay is a lovely beach and has a coral reef, so the fish around it are fantastic, it is a great place to go snorkelling although you need to go a bit out in the water to see all the colourful fish as all the fish close to shore are black due to people feeding them bread. Fish keep there amazing colours due to eating the coral, and when they eat bread they lose there colour. Anyway we just stopped at Hanauma Bay and took some photo’s before carrying on. Next stop was Makapuu Point which gives a great view of the coastline.
Coastline at Makapuu Point
Coastline at Makapuu Point
We then drove all the way up the East coast of Oahu looking at the lovely bays. We passed Kualoa Ranch which is the site that many movies are filmed at, including Jurassic Park, Mighty Joe Young and Godzilla. We stopped here at Kualoa reginal park, but there were signs up saying no swimming contaminated water. So we carried on driving, we stopped near Laie and had some lunch at a café, then carried on to the North Shore where we stopped at Pipeline Beach. This is where the world surf championship is taking place. We sat on the beach but it was full of photographers and reporters, there were many surfers in the water and huge waves of over 20 feet.
Surfers at Pipeline
Surfers at Pipeline
We had a walk up and down the beach and then drove on to Waimea Beach. Here we sun bathed for a bit and I jumped in the water, you could not swim here as the waves were still about 8 ft and when the waves break it crushed and pushed you down onto the sea bed, everytime you stood up you got pushed down again. After 5 minutes I was so tired I had to get out of the water.
Waimea Beach
Waimea Beach
We sun bathed for a bit longer and then decided to find a quieter beach so drove on. We eventually arrived at Mokuleia Beach and this was deserted, we were the only ones there so we lay in the sand and had paddle for an hour or so.
Me in the water at Mokuleia Beach
Mokuleia Beach
Jill and I on Mokuleia Beach
Mokuleia Beach
Jill and me on an excellant adventure
Jill Drawing in the Sand
Jill's Drawing Destroyed..
We then drove back towards the centre of the island and visited Dole Pineapple Plantation, here they serve the best pineapple ice-cream, they also have the world’s largest maze. I had done the maze before so we did not bother this time.
Dole Pineapple Plantation
The World's Longest Maze
We had a look around and then we headed back to Honolulu, we hit rush hour traffic so it was quite slow going back. At 6:30pm we heard on the radio that the band Motley Crue were playing in Honolulu tonight, now we had 4th row tickets to see them in London, but we flew out a week before they played, then when we were in America they were at the opposite end of the country to us, and they were in Sydney when we were but they were sold out. Anyway we returned the car and rushed back to our hotel to look up where the venue was. We walked the two miles to the venue and managed to buy tickets, so we were seated in the arena at 8pm for the concert.
My Motley Crue Ticket
They played for 1hr 45 mins and it was fantastic, they played all the classics like, Girls, Girls, Girls, Dr.Feelgood, Shout At The Devil, Kickstart My Heart etc Jill and I had a fab time. We then walked back to the hotel and went to sleep.
Got up early and met up with Keita and Reece at 9am. I had to phone home quickly as to fix my parents internet access, then we headed out. We went to National Car Rentals and hired a car for the day so we can drive around the island.
Our Blue Chevrolet
We got given a Blue Chevrolet, Reece decided to drive as we had to pay more for an extra driver, so it was just Reece driving all day. We drove through Waikiki and passed Diamond Head Volcano and then we stopped at Hanauma Bay.
Me at Hanauma Bay
Hanauma Bay
Hanauma Bay is a lovely beach and has a coral reef, so the fish around it are fantastic, it is a great place to go snorkelling although you need to go a bit out in the water to see all the colourful fish as all the fish close to shore are black due to people feeding them bread. Fish keep there amazing colours due to eating the coral, and when they eat bread they lose there colour. Anyway we just stopped at Hanauma Bay and took some photo’s before carrying on. Next stop was Makapuu Point which gives a great view of the coastline.
Coastline at Makapuu Point
Coastline at Makapuu Point
We then drove all the way up the East coast of Oahu looking at the lovely bays. We passed Kualoa Ranch which is the site that many movies are filmed at, including Jurassic Park, Mighty Joe Young and Godzilla. We stopped here at Kualoa reginal park, but there were signs up saying no swimming contaminated water. So we carried on driving, we stopped near Laie and had some lunch at a café, then carried on to the North Shore where we stopped at Pipeline Beach. This is where the world surf championship is taking place. We sat on the beach but it was full of photographers and reporters, there were many surfers in the water and huge waves of over 20 feet.
Surfers at Pipeline
Surfers at Pipeline
We had a walk up and down the beach and then drove on to Waimea Beach. Here we sun bathed for a bit and I jumped in the water, you could not swim here as the waves were still about 8 ft and when the waves break it crushed and pushed you down onto the sea bed, everytime you stood up you got pushed down again. After 5 minutes I was so tired I had to get out of the water.
Waimea Beach
Waimea Beach
We sun bathed for a bit longer and then decided to find a quieter beach so drove on. We eventually arrived at Mokuleia Beach and this was deserted, we were the only ones there so we lay in the sand and had paddle for an hour or so.
Me in the water at Mokuleia Beach
Mokuleia Beach
Jill and I on Mokuleia Beach
Mokuleia Beach
Jill and me on an excellant adventure
Jill Drawing in the Sand
Jill's Drawing Destroyed..
We then drove back towards the centre of the island and visited Dole Pineapple Plantation, here they serve the best pineapple ice-cream, they also have the world’s largest maze. I had done the maze before so we did not bother this time.
Dole Pineapple Plantation
The World's Longest Maze
We had a look around and then we headed back to Honolulu, we hit rush hour traffic so it was quite slow going back. At 6:30pm we heard on the radio that the band Motley Crue were playing in Honolulu tonight, now we had 4th row tickets to see them in London, but we flew out a week before they played, then when we were in America they were at the opposite end of the country to us, and they were in Sydney when we were but they were sold out. Anyway we returned the car and rushed back to our hotel to look up where the venue was. We walked the two miles to the venue and managed to buy tickets, so we were seated in the arena at 8pm for the concert.
My Motley Crue Ticket
They played for 1hr 45 mins and it was fantastic, they played all the classics like, Girls, Girls, Girls, Dr.Feelgood, Shout At The Devil, Kickstart My Heart etc Jill and I had a fab time. We then walked back to the hotel and went to sleep.
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