Random Thoughts …

Wednesday, July 21: This morning we went for a walk on the east side of the beach here at Turtle Bay and we discovered another part of the Pirates movie being filmed. This is a beach scene with a Spanish captain who discovers Capt. Jack.

The guard was nice enough to let us take pictures on the set, they should be cool.

Farther down the trail, we ran into a monk seal with pup on the beach. It too was ropped off and volunteers were monitoring their living. Very cool to watch too. An eventful walk this morning.

This is the first time that I am typing on the screen and it is actually pretty do-able.

Drove back west stopping at Banzai and Sunset Beaches for pictures. I bet they are huge in the winter, the water was pretty calm.

Lunch was had at Killer Tacos in Hale’iwa. Just like the ones in Kona, ok fare.

We flew back on a 3:45 flight instead of the 5:05 Iflygo (Mokulele) and had dinner at KBC. Did a few errands at Costco and Home Depot and were home by 7:30 or so.

Tuesday, July 20: Got up for sunrise, clouds obscured the view.

Headed after hotel breakfast to the Kuilima Cove on the hotel property. Free one hour snorkels and we were in the water by 9:30. Very murky and hard to see, we’ve seen much better, oh well.

We saw the Opana Radar Site above the hotel. This site was where the Americans during WWI first detected via RADAR the incoming Japanese during Pearl Harbor. If only people had taken the new technology seriously!.

Sandy hung out at the pool and I went for a walk down the eastern portion of the Turtle Bay. Pretty sights, blue skies and at the point a gun emplacement used during WWII. The bay to the east, Kawela Bay is beautiful, we should go back. Filming was going on for something and they wouldn’t let us back in.

Dinner was at the 21 Degrees North restaurant in the hotel. The meals were quite good and the martini selections (they have 21 different kinds) were awesome. I have some practicing to do.

Monday, July 19: After taking a 10:05 flight to Honolulu, we ended up shopping in the BIG CITY Ala Moana shopping center. Hilo Hatties had some nice silk shirts – they compared them to Tommy Bahamas and I bought 2 of them. On special and local kama’aina (10% off) rates, can’t beat that.

Took the H1, H2 and other freeways and roads to the North Shore Turtle Bay Resort for our mini-mini vacation. It is a little dated, but a very nice hotel. The ocean view rooms are very nice and clean. After a couple of Mai-tais (yummy), we had dinner at the Palm Terrace. It was pork ribs that we shared and they were just ok. It was weird sleeping in a room with air-conditioning running all night.

This hotel is one of the few places that you can see both sunset and sunrise, we’ll see!