Hawaii - Day Three

sunrise over Makaha






Dole Plantation



Pretty Flowers from Haliewa


Our Condo



Sunset






We are still on PST, waking up around 6:30 am..

At least I was able to get some sunrise picts over the mountains and harbor.

We had breakfast in the room, then headed for the north shore.

If you could draw a straight line between Makaha and Haliewa, its probably 30 miles, however, we have to drive around the Wai'anea mountains. Traffic was hell heading back to Honolulu.. Finally we made the turn North onto H1.

The first point of interest was the Dole plantation. We stopped, used the bathroom, looked at some pineapple plants and headed for the big surf.

We drove through Haliewa, sunset beach, Turtle Bay, and finally stopped at one of the busses on the north shore that sell shrimp out of them. Charter busses bring tourists from Waikiki out here to eat the shrimp. Its caught off the north tip of the island I guess.

We stopped at one called Giovanis. Not a very Hawaiian name, but the sign assured us it was "world famous". Funny, all the shrimp busses appear to be world famous.

There is only three things on the menu. Scampi shrimp with garlic, Hot and spicy and lemon and butter. You get 12 shrimp and 2 scoops of rice for $12.95. It was pretty good.

We stopped at Turtle bay and checked out the resort. Then we swam, I snorkeled. I didn't see any Turtles, but lots of colorful fish, like you see at the aquariums..

Next stop was back to Haliewa to Jamiesons by the Sea. A pub - restaurant on the beach. Here we met Dean, a friend of a friend. We chatted with him for some time, he and his wife moved here in 1968 from Cleveland..

We left the pub, and went and did some shopping. Dean had told me of a flower shop in town. We went in, very small, nothing on display except for a few beautiful ginger flowers. I asked her if she could make us a bouquet for $20. She made an awesome bouquet for us. Our room looks and smells tropical.

The rest of the shops were mostly designer. No souvenirs for us here. We headed back, hoping to make sunset, but not very likely. Dean told us to take Hwy 99, Kamehameha Highway. I didn't think it was smart, figuring it would be like 99 in seattle, 35 mph with lots of lights. Well, it was a lot of that, but it did turn out to be faster. We made it back for sunset, but it was pretty overcast. We went out on the rock point to get some picts.

then back to room, dinner and rest...