Home Again
Well, we are at the end of another tour. We have been home a week and have rushed into “Xmas mode” so Hawaii is already a bit of a blur ! Hopefully we will get a chance over Xmas to look back at our photos and videos and take in […]
Hawaii 2014
Oahu – Day 4
After all the festivities yesterday, today we actually did our tour of the USS Arizona Memorial. The Pearl Harbor site is actually part of the National Park Service and is known as the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. The main entrance is on the shores of Pearl […]
Oahu – Day 3
December 7, “a date which will live in infamy” – those immortal words from President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the surprise attack on the US Naval Base by Japanese fighter planes in 1941. Well here we are at that very spot 73 years later. And to think that my Mum, […]
Oahu – Day 2
After a lazy start, today we did a driving tour of the upper east coast and north shore of the island. For a short while we drove the freeway of Highway 1 but that soon disappeared into a more sedate single lane road. But that’s not to say the traffic […]
Oahu – Day 1
We have reached our final island, though its the first island we actually arrived at – oh never mind its too confusing ! We are in Honolulu on the island of Oahu for our final 4 nights staying at the Outrigger Reef on the Beach, and right on THAT beach […]
