Life in the 808

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Walk through Waikiki

I've decided to try to mix things up a bit to get some enjoyable exercise. After leaving a Board of Trustees meeting at the Hawaii Army Museum, I packed to be able to take off and walk through the heart of Waikiki to the other end on the back side of Diamond Head. I've never walked from one end to the other, but have driving the road between the two when showing family and friends around the island. I found some neat areas and revisited my favorite little duck pond near Kapiolani Park. Here are a few photos from the adventure.

Yes, I got some wet feet on this one!!

Hundreds of Needlefish

Check out those beady eyes!! Love his colors and detail!

Hammock's are the 2017 craze...people tie up everywhere!

Picture is hard to tell but there were several baby sharks, some Humuhumunukunukuapua aka triggerfish, and many more needlefish.

I call this the pretzel tree.

The trunk of a petite pine tree in Kapiolani Park

No discrimination here...the beautiful pond area is home to several different bird varieties. I feel like Mary Poppins walking through with all of the birds coming and going.

This mama was busy...she had at least 20 ducklings swimming around.

An interesting white headed duck??? Have never seen one like this?? Almost like a duck and pigeon mated??

Banyan Tree

Sunday, April 17, 2016

2015 Odds n Ends

Chicken looking bird - surely part of the Cardinal family

Maserati - 3 day Luxury Rental

Back in June we attended a Chamber of Commerce event and won a 3 day luxury car rental of a Maserati. What do you do with a car like this on an island that creeps at a snails pace...you drive it around the island and just enjoy the ride. Personal opinion: We prefer our 13yr old Lexus much better!! We would never buy this car because 1) it doesn't fit a can with a coozie on it for my morning soda 2) it does not fit Ryan's coffee mug and 3) it's quite stressful to drive around a $90k vehicle (especially if it's not yours) knowing full well it will be treated by others as any other island car. Since we had to use it before 12/31, we decided what better time than Christmas!

June raffle winners at J&N Exotics

Day 1: Pick up the car, go to a client, then drive out the Leeward coast to surprise some friends and catch the sunset.

My sister says it looks like a Buick...and sounds like a Buick with a Bad muffler!!

This is the greenest we have ever seen the Leeward Coast

We drove on roads and in areas that we've never seen before.

These Christmas decorations are up on the Likelike all year round...love them on my favorite trees!

A view down the coast from Electric Beach - one of my favorite sunset spots

Day 2 - Christmas Eve: Today we decided to take a drive through downtown Honolulu to scope out the Christmas decorations, a through Waikiki to let some tourists do some rubber necking, cruise through the high end neighborhoods since we looked like we fit in, then go around the south side of the island to and back to Electric Beach for the sunset and moon rise of the Full Moon.

While circling the island, we had to swing by the beach we got married at - Waialae Beach Park

A couple was getting their wedding photos taken

We drove around in some of the private, high end neighborhoods. We figured we could since we were driving a Maserati. If asked, we could say we are looking to buy a home!

Ran across Dog's house

I love some of the pigeon slang on official signs

A house is being dug out of the mountainside and built. We'll have to go back and see the finished product at a later time.

So nice of them to build holes through their roof for the cacti

You wonder how you can get lost on an island? It's because there are so many roads with the same name around the island. Don't get me started on Kamehameha Hwy!! lol