{"id":1277,"date":"2010-11-24T16:22:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T21:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_travel_adventures\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2022-05-05T13:58:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T17:58:01","slug":"exploring-oahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/exploring-oahu\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Oahu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I am going to take you on some more of our wanderings of the island.\u00a0\u00a0 Without any definite plan other than some advice from our Aunt and a map, we decided to go wandering.\u00a0\u00a0 We headed east from Honolulu right through the mountains.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The mountains are green, so many different shades of green, it was just beautiful driving through.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We decided to stop at the Pali Lookout.\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to being a gorgeous look out, and a favorite spot for tour buses, there were plaques for two important events in Hawaii\u2019s history that we found.\u00a0\u00a0 One discusses the Battle of Nu\u2019Uanu Pali, which took place in 1795.\u00a0 One of the leaders from the big island wanted to unite all the islands under one king, in the end the invaders won by pushing the local\u2019s over the cliff at Pali.\u00a0\u00a0 The other discussed a plane of US Air Corps soldiers that perished on April 5, 1942 in service to their country.\u00a0 They crashed their B-17 Flying Fortress within 300 yard of Pali lookout during bad weather.\u00a0 The pictures cannot do it justice, but below are some of my favorites, then we will continue on our adventure.<\/p>\n

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Pali Lookout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pali Lookout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pali Lookout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pali lookout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An offering to the gods?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another place that we stopped at on our drive around was Makapu\u2019u Point, on the southeast corner of the island.\u00a0 \u00a0Some locals shared their binoculars with us and we were able to spot some whales, a mom and a calf swimming out in the ocean.\u00a0 It was very fun to look for them by their spouts of water shooting up.\u00a0\u00a0 Another interesting thing we observed here was people doing a water sport that was new to me, stand up paddle boarding.\u00a0 \u00a0From what we could see you stand on a surf board type board, and paddle yourself around in the water.\u00a0\u00a0 Some of the people were quite a ways out in Waimanaio Bay.<\/p>\n

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Makapu\u2019u Point<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Makapu\u2019u Point<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Beach down below Makapu\u2019u Point<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Sanctuary for Humpback Whales at Makapu\u2019u Point<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We continued along the ocean and drove past Hanauam Bay Nature Preserve, this is supposed to be an excellent place to snorkel.<\/p>\n

The locals we had met at Makapu\u2019u Point suggested the next stop to us, and I think it was Niu Peninsula.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0From the road this looks like a lookout parking lot, but was quite busy and we had to circle several times to find a spot to park.\u00a0 We were also looking for whales here but did not spot any.\u00a0 We did however see a small beach area next to the lookout that looked like fun and explained why the parking lot was so full.<\/p>\n

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Beach Near Niu Peninsula<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Today I am going to take you on some more of our wanderings of the island.\u00a0\u00a0 Without any definite plan other than some advice from our Aunt and a map, we decided to go wandering.\u00a0\u00a0 We headed east from Honolulu right through the mountains.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The mountains are green, so many different shades of green, it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-adventures-to-destinations-other-than-disney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86578,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/86578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}