Hawaii Day 2

Today we woke up stupidly early and headed over to Pearl Harbor to see the Arizona Memorial. Despite getting there only 30 minutes after it opened, we managed to line our arrival up with a couple tourbuses. It ended up working out fine though because the wait gave us just enough time to walk through the museum.

After that we took a tour of the Bowfin, a WWII-era submarine. I managed to not smack my head or shins into anything, so I considered it a rousing success.

We then drove up to the North Shore and grabbed lunch in Hale'iwa at a restaurant right by the water.

After that we drove around and stopped at a two amazingly beautiful beaches. The first one, Turtle Beach, despite being amazingly beautiful, had pretty cloudy water and didn't make for very good snorkling. Sadly, we had to resign ourselves to floating in the cool water under the sun as palm trees waved overhead. Furthur down on this beach were, shockingly, a bunch of turtles. They enjoyed riding the waves into shore and floating back out. Every so often one would beach itself and paddle slowly back to the water, which was pretty funny.

The second beach, Shark's Cove, had nice clear water and tons and tons of fish that were happy to swim right up to you as you snorkled next to them. It also had very slippery rocks and, as I discovered, some sharp rocks (just scratched my hand a bit).

Continuing our drive around the North Shore, we stopped at La'ie Point which had a nice view back at the island and out to some rock formations in the water.

On the way back into Waikiki we stopped at Pali Lookout which has a beautiful view of Kailua.

And of course we've got a new photoset, bigger than yesterdays!

Tomorrow: Diamondhead and more snorkling (I think)

(This is Katy, I fixed some stuff that Chris wrote. As usual, he stays up later then me and I get up earlier than him, so he couldn't consult me last night.)