Monday January 19, 2015 Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii

We arrived in Honolulu at about 7 AM.  We went to the Horizon Court for breakfast.

First sight of the hiding place

With Verizon internet service available, I determined that the geocache we had come to Honolulu for was 3.2 miles away.  That of course was straight line.  We engaged a taxi.  By road it was only about 5 miles.  We arrived at the Keeli Beach Park and started hunting.  The coordinates took us along a fence line of chain-link.  The hint was “Lifting Required.”  Gerri found it.  The cache was accessed by lifting the top of an end post by a gate.  The cache owner had sawed off the top few inches off the post and inserted a smaller pipe into the section.  The smaller pipe fit into the end post and the pill box containing the log sheet was in a pill bottle in the bottom end of the smaller pipe.  When the smaller pipe was lowered into the end post the cut was hidden by the fence fittings and it was difficult to tell that post from any of the others.

Close up of the hiding place

Geting close

Container exposed

Mission accomplished

We returned to the ship in the taxi and spent some time in the Piazza on the internet.  The Verizon MiFi worked there.  I was able to finish yesterday’s blog and log the two Earthcaches I completed in the National Park.  I also logged the cache I completed today.

After the Verizon internet connection deteriorated we went outside and caught a shuttle to Hilo Hattie’s. 

400XL Aloha Shirt

After shopping there we got on a free trolley that took us to Waikiki.  The trolley was crowded until a group of passengers got off at the ship.  

The trolley went through Waikiki stopping at many of the hotels.  The driver gave a running description of what we passed.  It was hard to take pictures from the trolley and we choose not to get off.  Before returning to Hilo Hattie’s the Trolley made another stop at the ship around 4pm, where we got off.

We spent the rest of the afternoon on deck looking at the city skyline.  The Waikiki area of Honolulu was crowded and busy when we were here the first time in the early 90’s.  It is even more build up and crowded now.  Compared to Waikiki the Las Vegas Strip is sprawled out and not crowded at all.

Tonight the featured hors d'oeuvres at the Sky Deck was a shrimp fountain so we went there at five.  Later we went to a show in the princess theater.  The show featured a trio of guitarists playing Hawaiian songs and their wives doing a hula dance through some of the songs.  Gerri was nodding off during the show and returned to the room without going to dinner.  I went to the Lido Deck and had a hamburger before going to the room.  Gerri had read for a while before going to sleep and I did the same.