Monday 30th March San Francisco, California We sailed into San Francisco early in the morning and docked at Pier 25. We are here for two days and met up with our good friends, Phil and Brena, outside the terminal on The Embarcadero. We went to Union Square looking around Macy's and Ferragamo before we had coffee. We then drove to Golden Gate Park and had a drive around there. We stopped at the Dutch Windmill and Queen Wilhelmina's Tulip Gardens. The windmill wa...

Wednesday25th March Hilo, Hawaii Overnight we have sailed to another Hawaiian island. Our port is Hilo on 'Big Island' Hawaii. Together with our table companions and two others, we took a minibus tour of the island. We started by driving down Banyan Drive towards Hilo. This road is lined with Banyan trees that have been planted by famous people over the years. We saw a statue of King Kamehameha who came from Big Island and by 1810 had united all the islands int...

Tuesday 24th March Honolulu, Oahu As this is our first American port we had to go through a face to face interview with American immigration. They started at 7am for people going on tours. We joined the queue at 9.30 and eventually got through an hour later. We then took a bus over to Waikiki Beach. Surfing is of course very popular here and The photo shows a walkway to the beach where local surfers 'park' their boards. The day was hot and the beach was very bu...