It sure looked a lot bigger in the movies.
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These guys were rockin' the boat!
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| This is an open-air shopping mall just a couple of blocks from the boat dock. The stores opened at 8:20 AM (not 8:00 AM or 8:30 AM), which Deb and I thought was weird. | Waikiki
Beach. It sure looked a lot bigger in the movies. |
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| For some reason, I expected this beach to lined with bathing suits. | It is not the pipeline, but it IS surfing. |
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| Ever see anyone PADDLE a surfboard? | This has to be the good life, no? |
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| Deb said she had better not catch pictures of cute girls in bathing suits on my camera. But I took this one anyhow. | How about a wading pool with a view? The tide was out and left a lagoon pool about two feet deep. |
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| The entrance to the Polynesian Cultural Center. This is a DO NOT MISS if you go to Honolulu. | You would not guess from this view, but there was more than 1000 people inside. |
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| The center was actually several islands connected by bridges over canals. Each island represented a particular Polynesian culture. We are in a boat and passed under several bridges like this one. Even I had to duck down. | These boats are made from a single tree trunk that is hollowed out. Boats like this were built 1000 years ago. |
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| Each culture had a raft with singing and dancing with native style drums or sticks. This one was for AOTEAROA. | Samoa |
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| OOPS! This was not part of the program. | Fiji |
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| Hawaii | Tonga. These guys were rockin' the boat! |
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| This is the Tahiti boat. The hip action was so lively here, I had to switch over to video to capture it. [AVI] | Yes, this guy was actually playing the bamboo flute with his nose. |
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| We were told these Easter Island statue "hats" were actually hair styles. | Grass huts? Grass skirts? Life does not get much better than this. |
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| There were lots of good shows at the center. This was one of many where audience participation was encouraged. | He climbed that 60-foot tree barefoot in about 6 seconds at the most. He used no safety rope either. |
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| Dinner and a show. This was the luau and looked like a buffet to me, but the food was very good. | Here is a view of about half of the visitors... |
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| ...and the other half. | The island King and his attendants. |
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| This was the end of about 2 hours of non-stop entertainment. I captured a lot of it in movie mode, but bought the CD just in case. This link to an AVI file is a small sample of the evening program. |