Im going to start todays blog with some history.. When I started planning my trip i knew i wanted to spend as little time as possible in Waikiki. This meant I would not have time to visit Pearl harbour. I did however read about it in my faithful lonely planet and was surprised to learn it could have been avoided apart from 2 pieces of human error :-( but more than that the ship that was sunk on the first round of attack went down so quickly that thousands drowne...

Oh the dilemma write my blog or watch college beach volleyball on tv! This might be short tonight, all you need to know is that I rode a lot of waves today standing up on the board - a personal little victory there :) Thanks to "sharkey" the instructor who told me I couldnt fall off as every time I did a little bit of coral from the reef would die, Under my feet! Well the emotional blackmail clearly worked! After the amazing lesson I went to the centre of th...

Whales, a rainbow, a glorious sun set and clean knickers! Just another day in Hawaii well Maui actually! I even spoke to a few people today there was Rhonda on the Whale boat, a couple next to me at dinner from Portland Oregon - note to self look up where that is! A lady from China and her chap from Korea. So my day started with a lovely breakfast this time there was no nuts in the banana bread she must have noticed that i picked them all out yesterday! I the...

The downside of 14 different places to stay over three weeks and 5 days (not 4 weeks dad ;-) ) makes it really hard to find days to switch off. I am not asking for sympathy (!) it is merely an observation. So when I woke up this morning I breathed a sigh of relief that I am here for 3 nights. That is even enough time to finally do some washing :-) I did a very good job of relaxing today on 3 different beaches and i stopped at about 8! I cant get enough of them. ...

It is a travelling day today so I can be forgiven for no photos! However, how could I not share this wonderful picture of Teddy :-) Something tells me I am missing him more than he is missing me! Thank you Dad, Jane (& Dom) for doing such an ace job looking after him. Today I had a leisurely breakfast with plastic knives and forks and no brown sugar - Nan would never have approved. I have had many chats with Nan whilst ive been wandering around or sat on ...