Photos HA2
Photo's shot by Roger Linda - Honolulu, Hawaii NABC November 2006
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We took a bus down town to this historical site. |
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Iolani Palace the home of the last Queen. The revenues from the pineapple and sugar plantations financed this palace. We took a audio tour inside but no photos were allowed. |
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A pretty Gazebo on the grounds. |
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One of the previous queens in bronze. |
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A beautiful statue of king Kamehameha. |
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Another view of the palace. It was the first building in Hawaiian to have electric lights. |
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Next we walked about two miles to this Botanic Garden. |
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Linda and I both love to visit gardens like this one. |
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Orchards are very happy in Hawaii. |
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This tree compares in size to the red woods of California. |
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Think of the quantity of board feet in this tree! Marvin and I missed lunch and were really getting hungry at this point, so we headed on foot to China Town. |
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Linda, Virginia, John, and Betty getting ready to hike up to Manoa Falls. |
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It was a beautiful tropical location. |
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It was a modest water fall but the walk up was beautiful and the bridge stories were very entertaining. |
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Breakfast at Hale Koa the military hotel on Fort De Russey. I had fresh fruit every morning. The papaya was to die for. |
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Having dinner in the same hotel at a different restaurant. The drinks in the Hawaiian hotels were excellent. |
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Marvin was feeling no pain after that 1st Mai Tai. The 2nd one may have caused our poor record at bridge that night. |
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One morning we did an historical walking tour put on by the ACBL and this was our Hawaiian facilitator. He was an excellent speaker with lots of interesting historical knowledge. As a side benefit to me, he was a very conservative person who irritated a couple of liberal attendees. |
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Marvin and Linda also enjoyed his rhetoric. |