North America & Hawaii

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- 4 de ago. de 2023
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 126 m
- Estados Unidos Hawaii Honolulu County Woodlawn Waiakeakua Stream 21.327922, -157.79918821°19’41” N 157°47’57” W
Dia 27
Manoa Falls
4 de agosto de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Mum needed a 'recovery day' so I left her in Waikiki and went for a hike in Manoa Falls... Great opportunity to try out the public transport - not bad (can't help but take work with me 🤦‍♀️)
Great hike, started nicely - bit of an incline but over all well paved and fairly easy... reached the Falls in under an hour so decided to take another route - much more challenging and a lot less people! I think you may be able to tell the difference in the pics 😅
It also started to rain quite heavily an hour or so in so decided to turn back before hiking turned into canyoning!!! My ill-prepared self got very wet and muddy 🤣 luckily there was a hose to clean myself off and it doesn't take anything long to dry once the sun is back out!
Oh yer... and LOADS of chickens (don't know if the video has sound, but they are really on edge!!!)!!!Leia mais
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- 5 de ago. de 2023
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 18 m
- Estados Unidos Hawaii Honolulu Pohukaina 21.306783, -157.85880421°18’24” N 157°51’32” W
Dia 28
Iolani Palace
5 de agosto de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
So before Hawaii was territorialised by the US and became the 50th state, it had its Royal family (modelled on the British royal family!!!).
I enjoy learning about the history of places that I go to, how society has evolved to what it is today and what the significant turning points were.
So a trip to Hawaii's Iolani Palace was a must. I learnt about King Khamehameha (who united the islands of Hawaii) and his predecessors, and the fall of the Royal Family to America. Really interesting stuff which could turn this footprint into an essay so won't write it all - I encourage a Google search!!! Lol
After an educational morning, time for pineapple drinks at Barefoot Cafe on the beach and cocktails after sunset!Leia mais
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- 7 de ago. de 2023
- ⛅ 28 °C
- Altitude: 12 m
- Estados Unidos Hawaii Honolulu County Lā‘ie Pahu‘ula 21.639031, -157.92026521°38’21” N 157°55’13” W
Dia 30
Polynesian Cultural Centre
7 de agosto de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Continuing the cultural education, a visit to the Polynesian Culture Centre... was great.
Can visit 6 of the 'islands' in Polynesia to find out about the cultures (Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Hawaii and Tonga) including traditional dancing, food and clothing. Finished the day off with the magnificent show 'HĀ: Breath of Life' show... was buzzing when it was time to leave...Leia mais
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- 8 de ago. de 2023
- Altitude: 570 m
- Estados Unidos Hawaii Honolulu County Waimanalo Pu‘u‘okona 21.320622, -157.72316921°19’14” N 157°43’23” W
Dia 31
Kuli'ou'ou Forest Reserve
8 de agosto de 2023, Estados Unidos
Another rest day for mum = another hiking adventure for me!
I turned my back on the clear beautiful skies and sea of the coast and headed inland to what looked like quite stormy mountains!
Fab hike up a ridge trail... not for those who are afraid of heights as it's a sheer drop each side of a 1.5/2m ridge path at some points, and the views were pretty epic.
Trail was great, really diverse and a steep set of steps to the top... was hot and humid throughout but a great refreshing wind at the top! (As you can probably tell by my snazzy hair doo!)Leia mais
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- 11 de ago. de 2023
- ☀️ 29 °C
- Altitude: 10 m
- Estados Unidos Hawaii Honolulu County Mokumoa Island (historical)Ke‘ehi Lagoon 21.321285, -157.90910721°19’17” N 157°54’33” W
Dia 34
Helicopter tour!
11 de agosto de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Last day with mum!
Left her alone in the hotel lobby for 5 mins, when I see her she's looking all excited and comes out with 'let's go on a helicopter tour!' - who am I to say no! 😅 and so it is booked (and in the back of my mind I'm thinking how much cycling I will need to do to carbon neutralise this one!)
Was very cool, had a great pilot called Ben but he couldn't understand a word I said as apparently I have a strong accent!
O'ahu from the air is pretty immense, saw a lot of film settings (jurrasic park, lost etc) and the valleys are just indescribable!
Plus have never been in a helicopter before... really cool!Leia mais
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- 13 de ago. de 2023
- ⛅ 22 °C
- Altitude: 1.223 m
- Estados Unidos Hawaii Hawaii County Volcano Sulphur Banks 19.42876, -155.25722919°25’44” N 155°15’26” W
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To the Big Island Hawaii! Volcano Park
13 de agosto de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
After a night in a hostel in O'ahu I flew to the Big Island, Hawaii. There I immediately met some lovely Swiss people, Manuela and Elli... and we started planning!
Within an hour we had booked a car for the Monday (13th) and made a plan for Sunday (12th) to go to the Volcano National Park and me booking on a tag along trip the two had already planned for some stargazing up Mauna Kea...
Nice early start to VNP with a 7:40am bus... but its free so absolutely worth it!!!
The park itself was pretty epic with the steam rising (and smelly), lava tunnels and the crater huge... again some fab hiking, but this time with great company... Elli and I also ventured down to the crater floor - so vast!Leia mais
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- 14 de ago. de 2023
- Altitude: 464 m
- Estados Unidos Hawaii Hawaii County Napo‘opo‘o 19.481785, -155.90000619°28’54” N 155°54’0” W
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Girls Car Trip around Big Island
14 de agosto de 2023, Estados Unidos
Big Island car trip! So a new friend Yumiko came with us for a girlie trip around the island... and endured Manuela and my karaoke 🎤 Elli somehow fell asleep but learnt that she is very good at sleeping anywhere 🤣
Places we visited:
- Akaka Falls
- Waipi'o Valley (wanted to go for a hike but it was closed but the lookout point was good!)
- Kona for lunch at 'Da Shark Shack' (I had chicken wings... have to say the view was fab but for wings Greidy's in B'ham, UK are better!) Made a gheko friend
- Nāpo'opo'o Park for snorkeling... beautiful place and quiet as only allows 50 guests in at any one point... saw more tropical fish here than I did on the Great barrier reef in Aus... and there's also resting dolphins at the bottom... they didn't want to say hi to us but that's okay!
- Punalu'u Black Sand Beach which was just really cool! Taught the girlie's my 'airplane pose' which you'll see they adopted 😏😅Leia mais
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- 15 de ago. de 2023, 15:00
- ⛅ 11 °C
- Altitude: 4.120 m
- Estados Unidos Hawaii Hawaii County Pu‘uhau‘oki 19.824576, -155.47371919°49’28” N 155°28’25” W
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Stargazing - Mauna Kea
15 de agosto de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Short footprint for this one as had my phone on charge most the morning while I went and read my book in local park (so nice!) and trying to get pics of the activity was boarder line impossible on a phone (thanks for sending me yours Manuela!)
Yumiko moved into new accommodation today but gave me a lovely gift of an origami crane to give me luck and safety for our future travels 🥰
Manuela, Elli and I went stargazing... our guide was... memorable... we heard a lot about his lettuce growing business and how he single handedly set up the astronomy centre on top of Mauna Kea (yer right!) 🙄 and his obsession with polishing rocks 🪨
Buuut the star gazing was cool, saw the milkyway and Saturn through the telescope - rings and 2 moons as well!!! And cluster stars and just really cool stuff that makes you feel very small and insignificant in the great scheme of things 🙃 loved it... even if guide guy forgot the cups for a warm drink! 😅Leia mais
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Viajante Memorable🤣🤣🤣
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Viajante He was!!! 🤣
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- 16 de ago. de 2023, 09:00
- ⛅ 22 °C
- Altitude: 313 m
- Estados Unidos Hawaii Hawaii County Paukaa Waiko‘ana Stream 19.776896, -155.12858419°46’37” N 155°7’43” W
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Botanical Gardens
16 de agosto de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
So before flying back to the O'ahu for last day of the trip, Kevin, a German guy from the Hostel, drove the three of us (and himself... although hardly as the car was scarily automated!!! 😶) to the botanical gardens...
So see the pics of lots of beautiful greenery and flowers and stuff...
We all got half eatern alive by mozzies though 🤦‍♀️
I'm not even entirely sure where this was on the big island! 😅Leia mais
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- 17 de ago. de 2023, 20:44
- 🌙 26 °C
- Altitude: 22 m
- Estados Unidos Hawaii Honolulu County Kapahulu Royal-Moana Beach 21.275527, -157.82530721°16’32” N 157°49’31” W
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Surfs up!
17 de agosto de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ 🌙 26 °C
Last day in North America (or so I thought uploading this two days later from LA airport!!!) and Hawaii
Flew back to O'ahu yesterday but really wanted to get a surf lesson - how can you go to the birthplace of surf culture and not surf?!
So yer, was fab, I surprised myself and was able to stand... but also completely took out a kid 😖😅 'sorry, sorry, sorry I don't know how to turn!!!'

In the evening the gang from the Big Island was also around so we all went for food and said our goodbyes... a lot of love for these guys! And a place to stay in Brum if they ever want to visit! 🥰Leia mais
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Viajante Thaks for the fun time, was so cool to meet you💕see you in Switzerland or Birmingham...safe trip!
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