Day 14 Monday 10 November

This morning we decide to give the Mustang another long run & drive up the west coast of Oahu as far as the road goes, ending at Kaena Point State Park, below the satellite domes of the military installation. We got out of the high rise jungle, we came along to some areas without the majestic rugged mountains & normal suburbia, no high rise buildings to be seen for quite a long time, even then only a few hotels, I think. We have driven along the water’s edge for a fair distance when the beautiful mountains came back. We really admired the beauty of the West Oahu coast. We saw a small group of surfers & got out of the Mustang & watched them surfing for a short time. The surf is certainly different than in Australia, with the waves ending in a sharp shore dump.

On the way back we stopped at Makaha Point & it was packed with surfers enjoying an 8-10 foot surf, breaking from the point about 200 metres to shore. We sat under some good shade, talked to a local surfer & watched the surfers for a few hours, there were some really good men, women, girls & boys having a great time on the big waves. Most of the surfers were riding long boards & handling them very well. As before, these waves dumped fiercely onto the beach. I did think about a swim, but the reef comes right up to the beach & there is a fair current taking all that water back out. It looked pretty dangerous, particularly with all the surfboards in the water. About 2pm we headed back to Waikiki, taking about an hour on the freeway.

When we got back we changed into swimmers & headed over to the Hilton Lagoon., firstly stopping at the shrimp shack for a feed of prawns. This meal was not as good as previously. Tereza went for a swim while I kept an eye on our belongings & told me the water was fairly cold, so I didn’t go in. W e saw some more Japanese brides getting photos taken with Diamond Head as the backdrop, with ocean behind them, these brides even change into shorts & T/shirts I suppose to make the pictures look like after wedding on honey moon, some enterprising people are making a lot of money out of these weddings. I took the opportunity to get us an ice cream before heading back to our apartment & another beautiful sunset to top off another nice day.