As I said earlier, I promised to keep Gina entertained while she was visiting. The first thing we had planned was to ride bikes to the beach and go outrigger canoeing. It took a little while to get going so we decided to forgo the bike ride and drive out to the beach. We arrived at 0830 to meet up with Howard the canoeing coach. Unfortunately we were the only ones to show up and you can't very easily row a 6 person canoe with only 2 people so we had to settle for a nice conversation with Howard who told us about his 20 year AF career and his canoe coaching while we waited for anyone else to show. No one showed so we settled for eating breakfast outside along Pearl Harbor at the Wright Brother's Cafe. After Breakfast, we picked Courtney up from School and headed up with Ginger to Aiea Heights for a hike. The Aiea Height's loop is a 4.5 mile hike along the ridge that overlooks Hickam and Pearl Harbor. It has a few scenic overlooks of the ocean and the H3 hwy. The trail is pretty easy to walk or run. We chose to walk and finished in 2 hours.
We hurried home to eat some lunch so we could head up to the north shore to check out the waves. Unfortunately we didn't leave quite early enough and we hit some of the early rush hour western bound traffic.
It wasn't too bad. I decided to take them up to the same route of my Saturday morning bike rides. We headed out past Dillingham Air Field to as far as the paved road goes on the north west side of the island. I was able to capture some of the waves on film.
We headed back northwest to Halewa. Halewa, is the famous North Shore village that hosts many surfing competitions and whose culture hasn't changed much since the 60's we shopped around a little bit and had a shaved ice then we headed up the road a bit to a place where the sea turtles rest on the beach. I wasn't sure if we would see any now as the surf was up quite a bit. However, there was one turtle sleeping on the beach. I took a few pictures of the turtle as well as a nice sunset picture.
Our final north shore destination was Sunset Beach. This is our favorite beach. In the summer the ocean is very calm. There is a reef about 20 yards out that I like to snorkel along. We also like to take our bogey boards and ride the small waves. Today there was no snorkeling or bogey boarding as the waves were crashing in. Courtney and I got a little daring and would stand at the edge of the beach letting the waves run up too us. We ended up getting soaked but had a great time.
Unfortunately we didn't have any towels so we kind of got the seats in the car soaked on the way home. The Gate guard looked at me funny when I drove up with no shirt on . Since the temps drooped to a frigid 75 degrees, we decided to have chili for supper. Gina and Steph ran to the store to get some tennis balls so we could attempt to play after supper if we aren't too tired. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. We don't have any other plans except to eat, watch football and I may possibly sneak in an early morning bike ride with the HACC.
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