Sunday Morning Edition.

Ok so I've never really been one to go to church. I still consider myself a spirtual and god loving person. So I've come up with an idea. Every Sunday I am going to walk the Kailua Beach and pray and reflect. It is a nice walk and takes about an hour. What better way to connect with god then to be in his great outdoors! This Sunday was a beautiful and I took a few minutes to take some pictures of my new church.

Hawaii Bridal Shower.

The wonderful ladies of the Charlotte threw me a bridal shower at PF Chang's. The food was good and the company even better. Since the boys are all gone it was the prefect excuse for a ladies night out. My sponsor, Melissa, planned the event and I can't thank her enough. THANK YOU MELISSA! I recieved some wonderful gifts as well and I can't wait to use them!

 

The wardroom ladies.

After the shower, Melissa and I were joined by Alana, the birthday girl and Diane. The four of us walked around Waikiki. Now as some of you LOST fans may know, Saturday was the premier night in Waikiki. There were having a party about a block from PF Chang's. When we exited the resturant the starts were showing up for the party. I saw the back of Hurley's head, thats about as much action as I saw.

 

The LOST Fans. Hurley's head is in there somewhere!

PS- For my non-navy people wardroom is a term referring to officers on the submarine as a whole. Ther is a more techincal version, but this is how we used the term.

Trash.

The theme for this week's edition of Fifty-Two Wednesdays was trash. Another strange theme. So I began look at trash cans and walking around my complex to find litter. I must admit that the grounds keepers do a great job around here picking up trash. None was to be found. Then I remembered that Wednesday was trash day.

The trash men came roaring up my hill to get the dumpsters. As soon as I could see it come around the bend I couldn't help but think, "wow, that looks like a big yellow jacket." I find this fitting as yellow jackets always seem to gather around trash cans.

Peacocks.

So if you walk around my neighborhood you will probably run into some of the wild chickens. Which so graciously start to crow around 3 am. I think the are a little confused, ok or just plain stupid. On occasion, if you go for a morning walk you can see the wild peacocks. Check them out.

Hickam and it's wildlife.

Missing Man

This week I went to Hickam and took a few shot out on this point. This is located on the channel for Pearl Harbor. When I was looking in the water I saw some interesting creatures.

Sea Turtle!

I hope this sea turtle doesn't run into any of the submarines. I guess it was a little lost, there aren't really any beaches this way. Maybe it was after some fish....

Can you see the Sea Slug? Its the redish thing in the water. 

I remember sea slugs from snorkeling. You can pick them up, they are kind of velvety, but you do not want to squeeze it. You will be sorry.

I can't get over how pretty the Hibiscus is here!

That is it for now! Check back soon!

It has to End Somewhere?

A water tank that marks the beginning of the trail. 

 So we decided to go hiking again. This time on the Likeke Pali trail, which begins on the old Pali highway and takes you to one of the tunnels on the Likelike Highway, or so our book says....

Old Pali, you can barely see the cobble stones.

 The beginning of the trail was really pretty. In the first half mile or so you go though a monkey pod patch.

Monkey Pods.

Then you come upon these waterfalls and pools of water. I climbed up one of the boulders to get a better look at the falls and naturally got stuck there! Luckily after some coaching and JJ climbing to get me, I was able to get back down.

Upper and lower falls.  

We continued on the trail, our book said that in about two miles we would reach the tunnel. We walked up and down old stream beds that had dried up. Slowly ascending up the mountains, we passed by a boy scout camp. We found an old shelter that someone must of built a long time ago; Alana decided to check it out.

Alana in a hole. Alana in a tree.

Then we came upon an area with these huge trees. We think this is the arboretum we were told we would pass. There were also spots with great views up there, although, it was a voggy day.

Beautiful tree.

Please excuse the Vog.

Then we went through a bamboo forest. At this point we knew we had gone over two miles. We figured the trail would eventually take us to the tunnel. We started to be able to hear the highway, but couldn't seem to find it. The path narrowed, but was still marked. We had to walk through brush that was on the path, which at this point was more of a ledge then a pwth. You didn't want to slip at this point, the tumble didn't look fun. We were debating whether or not to turn around, we had gone for a long time. We decided to move on since we knew that the trail would end near the tunnel. We were rather certain that we could get to the likelike overlook and have someone pick us up! Problem was we could still hear the road, but couldn't see it.

At this point we were waiting for the trail just to end and we would need to return to where we came from. Finally we saw the highway, but not anywhere close to the look out. So we continued on the path. Then JJ says, "That's it! It stopped." In disbelief Alana said "No! It can't end!" and she pushed JJ through the bush. Sure enough, we found the path again. It lead us under the highway and we reached an access road. We figure this would take us some place where we could be retrieved. Eventually, we came out on a paved road which was part of the Botanical gardens.

In the end we never saw the tunnel, but I don't think we will go back anytime soon to find it!

 

Tunnel Vision.