Blogs from Hawaii, United States, North America - page 8

Aloha again from Oahu, Hawaii. Not a lot to report today…been a drive around looking at shops day, as I said in yesterday’s blog. Have to admit that doing that in the car around the middle of Honolulu isn’t my favourite pastime…too much traffic on the ‘wrong’ side of the road and not enough knowledge of where to get into centre’s car parks etc. just makes for a tiring day. However, undeterred, we set off around 9.45am for the big Ala Moana shopping centre, only a few miles away but in traffic of course….. Joy was on a mission to get some ‘stuff’ from the Body Shop…..their body butter is always so expensive at home but Joy really likes it. After missing the car park entrance the first time, we got a park after circling the ... read more

Aloha again from us. Well it was a lazy day of sorts today……a day at the beach…..well Hanauma Bay to be exact. We have been to H Bay before but it was 25 years ago when we were in Hawaii on our 25th wedding anniversary. I first visited in 1993 when Rhys and I were here with the Hawkes Bay Youth Brass Band at the Pacific Basin Music Festival…hard to believe that it is 30 years ago. We tried to visit in 2014 when we were here but couldn’t get in as the car park was full when we arrived at about 9am. They have changed all the visiting rules now and you have to book tickets to enter the ‘park’ and I think I said something about it in my Blog a couple of days ... read more

Aloha to everyone, We are sitting at the airport on Maui, Kahului, having a cold drink while we wait to head to our gate for boarding our flight to Honolulu. We got here a bit early as it didn’t take us nearly as long to get thought he rental car check-in as I envisaged. However by the time pointed out all the cars ‘issues’ to the very nice young man at the Dollar Rentals check-in we did take a while….the bonnet kept jumping open to the first catch, the key fob ‘door opening’ didn’t work at all - locked everything but wouldn’t open and it took me 3 days when I quite by accident discovered that if I used the key to open the drivers door and turned the key twice to the right it activated ... read more

Aloha everyone, Well, a couple of days to catch up on from 2 rather weary travelers. Just too tired last night by the time we got back to the hotel from our wedding anniversary ‘Sunset Dinner Cruise’ at Ma’alaea to get onto the computer so here goes…. Yesterday was our wedding anniversary over here, being a day behind (I think that’s the way it works) and we celebrated by the 2 waterborne activities that I mentioned on the previous blog. We headed out to Ma’alaea Harbour, about 25 minutes drive away from the Maui Banyan around 10am giving us plenty of time before our 1100am check-in for the whale watching cruise with the Pacific Whale Foundation. Joy wanted to buy tickets for the Maui Aquarium and Ocean Centre for Saturday that is beside where we had ... read more

Aloha to everyone again…. Thursday the 5th here so even though it’s our wedding anniversary today in NZ, we have to wait until tomorrow for the 6th January here, and we’ve got a great day and evening lined up to help us celebrate, but more on that later. This morning after our usual brekkie we headed out in the car for a day of driving and sightseeing. We headed up to the north from where we are and went straight on past Lahaina and carried on up the coast looking for some interesting spots that Joy had found on a map. The road started out as a usual 2 lane road but quickly turned into a very long, winding and narrow, mainly 1 way, scenic drive. No real towns in this part of the Island until ... read more