Oahu | Bits & Pieces

A few more Hawaii photos that didn’t quite fit anywhere else and/or that I didn’t feel like devoting entire posts to and/or that I forgot about when sifting through my massive library of photos.

This first set is from our last evening in Waikiki. We stowed our luggage with an off-airport baggage company and took the bus into Waikiki to enjoy a tiny bit of beach time and one final meal in Hawaii together before Sly headed off to LA and I headed back to Korea.

Yup, another Hawaiian sunset. I know it’s totally cliché to take so many sunset photos but it was impossible not to try and capture every last one. They were too spectacular.

We were laughing in these photos because for some reason we couldn’t take normal selfies (as one does when the sun is setting on a beach). We tried all kinds of angles and poses and they all pretty much ended up weird and ugly. We just couldn’t get it right. So anyway, these are the least weird, least ugly ones.

The morning we left our campsite at Malaekahana a storm could be seen brewing off the shore. The waves grew taller and crashed harder. I’m a sucker for this kind of pre-storm lighting so we took a ton of portraits.

On our drive down to Honolulu from the North Shore we ran into the epitome of an old school surfer dude at a gas station. In a stereotypical surfer voice he asked us about the weather in the North Shore and if the waves up there were “sick.” We let him know it hadn’t quite started raining yet but the skies certainly looked angry. “Right on, man,” he replied, “right on.”

A few goofy, grainy shots from camp and one from our nighttime stroll to the nearest strip mall. Since we last visited the North Shore a pedestrian sidewalk had been built along the side of the Kamehameha Highway. I can’t recall how far North it extended but it took us from Malaekahana Beach to Laie. We totally underestimated the distance to Laie, thinking that it was about 10 minutes away. Instead it turned out to be two miles one-way. Oops. On our walk we passed a field of ponies and met up with a doggy who kindly guided us along the trail before splitting off onto a side path that led to a residential neighborhood.

Various photos taken from a moving car while driving around Oahu. I don’t know why I keep taking photos like these. 

An awesome tree in Waikiki and a beautiful plumeria flower that can be found everywhere in Hawaii. I love the sweet, tropical, smell of frangipani.

At the end of Sly’s work conference thing, his team threw a company picnic on Waimanalo Bay. Making small talk at mandatory fun work functions isn’t typically my thing but I suppose it’s good to do every once in a while. Plus, food. Plus, view.

FIN.

Sorry for dragging out these posts even more than usual. I planned on having them all completed in the time span of two weeks — a couple months ago — but then life intervened. Anyway. We’re finally on the home stretch. I have a ton of other stuff – more recent stuff – that I have been wanting to blog about (in the moments when I actually felt like blogging) but I was afraid that if I didn’t finish these posts then it would be another couple years of seeing the half-finished write-ups in my drafts folder before I finally got around to posting.