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Hawaii 2019

September - October 2019
Our big Honeymoon to Oahu, Kauai and Maui 😊 Read more
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  • TravelerHawaii 2019
    Day 1

    Nearly ready

    September 30, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    Let's see if I can keep this updated throughout the whole trip this time.
    Just have a few bits and pieces to do today before getting the train down from Cardiff around 3pm. We don't fly out until 9:40pm tonight, but should arrive at the airport with plenty of time to have dinner and look around the duty free shops.
    Not long now!    Read more

  • TravelerHawaii 2019
    Day 1

    Sydney Airport

    September 30, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    Linden dropped us off at Cardiff and we caught the train down to Sydney this afternoon. Watched some Netflix and listened to 3 ladies talk about their shenanigans as they drank out of their 'soft drink' bottles. They were getting a little obnoxious by the time we got to central, but they were pretty amusing. Checked in and passed through security pretty quickly and now we're just getting a bite to eat before looking through the duty free booze. Hopefully we'll get some sleep tonight.Read more

  • TravelerHawaii 2019
    Day 1

    Made it!

    September 30, 2019 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 25 °C

    Yesterday aka Monday 2.0 was alright. We didn't get any sleep on the flight so that was a bugger. Plenty of snacks and shows to watch so that was good at least, just went a little too long without sleep. Had the usual security, customs and waiting for the bags once we landed then our transfer to our hotel. We're staying at the Sand Villa for 2 nights, it's older but lovely and right on the canal and only a block from the beach. We were able to check in early and had a little lie down before heading to Dukes, a restaurant on the beach and we went there a few times last time, so good. We had some pupus (haha) finger food/entrees and I had my first cocktail of the trip, as good as we remembered. We were still pretty wrecked so went back to the hotel via a few ABC stores to pick up some supplies and ready for a more decent nap. Around 6pm we made a move and wandered through the shops in Waikiki, there's a Christmas shop! Ben dragged me away pretty quickly, but I'll try and get in there today. Cheeseburger in paradise was for dinner, we shared the mac and cheeseburger and the pastrami cheeseburger, both really good. Back through some shops then ready for bed. I didn't set an alarm for today so it's about 9:30am Tuesday morning right now, plan is to go to the shopping centre Ala Moana and getting a bus from there to Manoa falls, see how we go 😊Read more

  • TravelerHawaii 2019
    Day 2

    Day 2 and feeling much more normal

    October 1, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    Had a nice lazy start to the day and we're both feeling like normal humans again. Went for a wander down past a few shops, decided we weren't hungry yet so got on a pink trolley (open air bus) to the big shopping centre, Ala Moana. Good thing we did a Google before leaving, there's a bus from there to Manoa falls, well, the falls trail is shut on weekdays as of last week for repairs, so that's a shame, but also it was more of a nice time filler rather than a MUST DO. We went to the chemist to grab a few things and a look around the shops, now at Bubba Gump for lunch, I'm so excited for food!Read more

  • TravelerHawaii 2019
    Day 2

    Shopping day

    October 1, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

    We hung around at Bubba Gump for a while and had a few drinks while watching the movie in the background. The drinks make shopping more fun and interesting! This shopping centre is huuuuge! We both picked up a few bits and pieces and went back up to Mia Tai bar for another few drinks, happy hour this time! I haven't been asked for ID so many times for a while, it's amazing haha! More shopping then a visit to cinnabon and we thought we'd head back on the trolley. Went via the abc store again for more 'supplies', freshened up at the hotel and went downstairs to loco house for dinner. The food has been great as it was last time, less of a thrill though I guess? Since we have so much at home now, fancy burgers, pizza, cafe brunches etc. Still great! I just remember last time the food was a real novelty. We had ribs and pizza for dinner then went to the foot spa, it's solar heated and is good when you've been on your feet all day. I feel like we'll need it more later in the trip but that's okay. Early night for an early start today. Ben has gone to pick up the car while I maneuvered the many bags down to the lobby, cruising around the east coast of the island today before getting to our accom on the north shore for the next 2 nights.Read more

  • TravelerHawaii 2019
    Day 3

    Koko Crater aka Mount Doom

    October 2, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C

    Why do I keep doing this? 'Oh that hike looks great, what a fun thing to add to our holiday', gahhhhhh!
    First stop, Koko crater aka Mount Doom. The Koko Head trail is an old railway with 1048 stairs, what a great way to start the day, said no one ever. Driving into the carpark and you could see a clear path up the giant mountain next to us. It was bloody beautiful, don't get me wrong, but we (mostly me) had to stop so many damn times on the way up to not die. There were a few military people who do it 5 times a day then go home. FIVE TIMES! One lady was on her phone just having a chat with a friend on the way up, while I'm struggling to breathe let alone talk. It was tough, but the view was unreal! Took us just over an hour to get to the top and about 45 minutes to get down. Going up was obviously more strenuous, but going down was really tricky, a lot of the steps you have to literally climb up, some were up to my hip because sleepers in between had fallen away or eroded, or some were a weird size anyway. There was also a section where there was no ground underneath at all, it just dropped off. There were some dogs doing it with their owners (the crazy runners) and on our way back down there was a girl heading up with her family and she said that if a dog could do it, she could. We had a laugh but refrained from telling her that it's a trap. Finally got to the bottom, absolutely dead, like.. ready to vomit dead, so that was an unpleasant half an hour while my tummy settled. Ben ran in to some shops nearby and got some water, coke and Gatorade so we could switch between the drinks to hydrate and get some sugar back into us. I'm glad we did it, but yeah.. once is enough.
    Oh! Nearly forgot, guess who did the whole thing in pluggers?! Quite a few people mentioned it to him and were dumbfounded haha, Ben's usual response was 'I'm an Aussie, mate'. Hahaha, typical 😅😅    Read more

  • TravelerHawaii 2019
    Day 3

    Cruising along the coast

    October 2, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

    Once we were a bit more alive, we stopped at a food truck for Leonard's Malasadas, Portuguese (I think) doughnuts, we got the filled ones but didn't eat them until later because we were still feeling a bit off. We stopped off at Sandy beach first, original name right? I had a quick shower there, had to get out of my sweaty clothes from the hike. Got some photos along the road at different lookouts and the makai research pier. We missed most of these ones last time so it was nice to stop off and have a look.Read more

  • TravelerHawaii 2019
    Day 3

    Revisiting some old favourites

    October 2, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

    Next we headed for Lanikai, it's a really cute little town on the beach (of course) and if we came with other people, it'd be a really nice spot to stay in a house for a few days I reckon, could also cost a bomb, who knows! Ho'omaluhia Botanical gardens was next, you can drive your car through and it was nice to have a look, especially as we got closer to the mountains. There weren't really many flowers which seemed weird, but it was so green and beautiful. We stopped off at the Valley of the Temples and Byodo temple again, nice little stop off where I got a Vietnamese iced coffee, it was so good, I've been craving a good one sinxe Screemin Veemis closed in Newcastle. Anyway! The Macadamia farm was next, tried a bunch of different flavours and cracked some macadamia nuts open to snack on.Read more

  • TravelerHawaii 2019
    Day 3

    SHRIMP

    October 2, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    It was time for a late lunch at Giovanni's shrimp truck! It's on the side of the road and looks kinda dodgy but damn it is good! Scampi for us, so much garlic. Really what we needed. After rinsing the garlic and butter off our hands we headed for Banzai Pipeline beach, the surf was a lot better than last time, we hung around for a bit then thought we'd try to find the turtle beach. We think we found it and we were starting to walk along when it started raining pretty heavily. Decided we'd come back tomorrow, also it was starting to get dark. Found our Airbnb, it's a guest suite but a little closer to the main house than we would have liked, but it's nice enough. We've just been relaxing for the last little bit and I'd say we'll be in bed soon, it's been a great, but long day.Read more

  • TravelerHawaii 2019
    Day 4

    Thursday morning and still sore

    October 3, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

    We had an earlyish start this morning and started with breakfast burritos at Kokos. They were huge and absolutely packed full, so good and pretty cheap too! Our first stop was back at Laniakea beach in hope of spotting some turtles. That was pretty easy, none on the beach itself but as we were walking down we saw a few heads pop out of the water. We went over to the rocks were a few people were standing and there were a few more there, eating the seaweed off the rocks, it was really cool!
    Waimea valley was next on the agenda, there was a bit of road work which was annoying but didn't really add too much longer onto the drive. Waimea valley is a big botanic garden with a waterfall you can swim in at the end. It was maybe half an hour to get to the waterfall, it was paved and relatively flat, but I could definitely still feel all of my sore muscles from yesterday. If you wanted to swim you had to wear a life jacket, which made a lot of sense looking at most of the other people around and watching them try to paddle.    Read more

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