Back from Hawaii. Some panoramas of various places we visited for your viewing pleasure (please click on each picture to embiggenate). More complete descriptions and tales of hilarity after emergence from turkey coma.
Diamondhead Crater from the Waikiki Banyan
Northshore/Haleiwa, O’ahu
Remains of the Pu’u O Mahiuka Heiau or the Pu’u O Mahiuka temple in northern O’ahu
Mokuleia Beach Park, Northshore O’ahu
Haleiwa Beach right before the start of the Triple Crown of surfing
Diamondhead Beach Trail, O’ahu
Southpoint, Hawaii: The southernmost point in the 50 United States
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: Halema’uma’u crater inside the Kilauea caldera
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: Chain of Craters Road cuts across lava flows from the 1970s
Kailua Kona from the bow of the New Horizon
Pearl Harbor
The USS Missouri as seen from the USS Arizona memorial
Looks like all kinds of ‘wow!’. Some well-deserved vacation, and I hope the ‘honeymoon’ spirit was with you both. ;-)
Loved it all. Sifting through the 700+ pictures I took and making a mental list of what I’d like to do more of next time I’m there (who knows when that will be?!)
Did you go inside Diamond Head? It’s interior was once used as a military base for a missile defense system.
The weekend allotted to hike Diamondhead turned out to be when they closed the park for the APEC conference and its dignitaries. I was denied. *pout*
It really creeps me out that there is a national cemetery inside Punchbowl Crater (across Honolulu from Diamondhead; apologies if you know this).