(ek_map_SMF_HNL) Distance from Sacramento to Honolulu is 2,458 mi.
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Honolulu, HI Visiting my friends at Pearl Harbor Commissary |
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(ek_7468) My new hat that my friends at Pearl Harbor Commissary gave me
(ek_7470) They still have my picture hanging up since my farewell in 2008
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Honolulu, HI Overlook above Honolulu area |
(ek_3776) This is the viewpoint after taking a secluded road from the edge of Honolul on Round Top Dr and Tantalus Dr.
(ek_3777pano) That is Diamond Head in the far distance
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Honolulu, HI Luau at Hale Koa Hotel |
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(ek_3785) Coconut tree climbing demonstration
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(ek_3790) Enjoying the food at the luau
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Honolulu, HI USS Arizona Memorial |
(ek_3794) Boarding the boat to the USS Arizona Memorial
(ek_3795) Old gun turrent from the USS Arizona visible above water
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(ek_3799) The USS Arizona lies in the water below the floating memorial. On December 7, 1941 the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor.
1777 U.S. Navy men were killed on the USS Arizona. Those men were never recovered and are buried with the ship below.
(ek_3804) On the wall is the names of the Navy men who were killed aboard the USS Arizona
(ek_3802) Some Navy men from the USS Arizona survived. When they die those few survivors can choose to have their ashes
buried in the ship below with their fellow Navy men with whom they served on the USS Arizona. 35 survivors have chosen to be buried this way.
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(ek_3806) That is the USS Missouri battelship behind us. It was aboard this ship that the Japanese signed the surrender agreement
at the end of World War 2.
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(ek_3809) We are boarding the boat to go back to land again.
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(ek_3814) That is the USS Arizona Memorial is the distance.
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(ek_3819) The names behind us are the military men killed on December 7, 1941 when the Japanese attacked.
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Oahu, HI Dole Pineapple Plantation |
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Oahu, HI Polynesian Cultural Center |
(ek_3830) The Polynesian Cultural Center has a purpose to teach visitors about the culture of the Polynesian area of the south Pacific
Ocean. There are sections on Hawaii, Fiji, Tonga, samoa, Tahiti, and New Zealand.
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(ek_3839) Often they have people come up from the audience to participate in learning some skill or musical thing about that country.
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(ek_3847) We are getting ready to attend the luau dinner
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(ek_3851) They cook the pig in a big pit with large leaves and hot rocks
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