Hawaii 2017 - Day 7

Day 7 – Diamond Head

There is one thing I don’t think I’ve mentioned at all and that’s the weather. That’s because its always the same! Every day by about 8am it’s 28 degrees, it hits a high of 31 or so in the early afternoon and then drops to about 26 when the sun sets at about 7pm. Occasionally there are clouds but we have not seen much of them - today was probably the cloudiest we have seen. Apparently Waikiki is known for its low rainfall – the other side of the island get rain, but not much here. I’m certainly not complaining about that. It is very hot at times though and one of the disappointments of the resort is the lack of shade at the pool. I only lasted about 5 minutes on the sun lounge and then it was back to my lovely shaded (in the afternoon) balcony. You can buy shade at the pool … but, really …? Buy shade? They have these little private cabana things that you can hire … I don’t think so.

Today after our usual breakfast feast we headed off on our Green Line adventure. This was the trolley to Diamond Head – an extinct volcano located quite close by, at the end of Waikiki Beach really. Our balcony overlooks it. We had a couple of scenery stops and then entered the Diamond Head State Park where the trolley drives you into the crater, via a tunnel. At this point, you can hop off and hike up to the top of the mountain – suffice it to stay we happily remained on the trolley … maybe next time! The trolley also took us for a tour of some of the nicer neighbourhoods where film stars live.

    

Gary wanted to go back to the Ala Moana shops but I couldn’t face another bout of shopping so he changed trolleys and headed off while I went back to the hotel and more reading time out on the balcony. I think the main attraction at the shops was a Citrus Kick drink he discovered in the food court that has just the right amount of ginger – he’s missing his daily ginger tea. 

  

After a fairly lazy afternoon, with another book finished (that’s three now), we decided on an early dinner – we hadn’t really eaten since breakfast and I was starving. We had been eyeing off an Italian Restaurant underneath the hotel but it always had a line of people out the door. We even had a short wait at 5.10pm but it was worth it – very yummy pasta and pizza, and Gary seemed pretty happy with the tiramisu!

   

A short walk to take in the sunset, and we headed back, grabbed tonight’s DVD (that we are about to start watching) – Megan Levey … never heard of it … so, who knows?