I awoke to the sounds of our ship coming into port in Honolulu. The early morning light was bouncing off the buildings creating reflectoions that glowed.
With a free day before flying home we headed straight to Pearl Harbor. It was a very sobering experience to hear the stories of the tragedies on that fateful date of Dec 7, 1941.
A moment of silence at the memorial wall.
We ended our tour of Pearl Harbor with a visit to the Missouri.
Images captured with Nikon D700, AF-S 70-300 (1st image), AF-S 14-24mm on Lexar Digital Media
As we departed Kauai we headed up the Na Pali Coast. It was an amazing sight to behold as the earth thrust from the sea to sear thousands of feet into the air, jagged fins lit with late afternoon light.
After making one pass the captain turned the ship around and cruised right back down the coast, treating us to a Na Pali Coast sunset..
And for the finale, a rainbow showered our pixels with a Hawaiian rainbow.
Images captured with Nikon D700, AF-S 24-70mm (1st image), AF-S 70-300, on Lexar Digital Media
We took the group on an excursion around the Island. Our first stop was Opaeka Falls then we moved on to Waiamea Canyon…
After a couple of hours of enjoying the splendor of the Grand Canyon of the Pacific we headed to Spouting Horn for the sunset.
A great time was had by all!
Images captured with Nikon D700, AF-S 24-70mm on Lexar Digital Media.
Sitting on the balcony enjoying myself before heading into Kona I happened to look over the side at the water and the texture and color of the water caught my eye.
Stopping to dip our toes in the water, I liked the view of our ship from shore.
Images captured with Nikon D700 AF-S 24-70mm (top) and AF-S 14-24mm (bottom) on Lexar Digital Media
After teching a class this morning we disembarked the ship and headed straight to Cafe Pesto for lunch. It was as good as we remembered. I had seen these really cool storage tanks when we left the ship and on the way back I had to stop and photograph the stairway to….???
At ten pm we approached the lava flow and everyone was on deck for the show. What a show it was with lava flowing into the ocean and great plumes of steam billowing into the sky.
Top image captured with Nikon D70 converted to Infrared, AF-S 70-300mm VR on Lexar Digital Media. Bottom image captured with Nikon D700, AF-S 200mm 2.0 VR on Lexar Digital Media.
