WEDNESDAY 24TH – TOURING THE BEACHES

Beach day today although we haven’t actually got into the water yet. After an incredibly tortuous process, we collected our hire car, a Ford Focus, this morning and headed north.

As expected, we saw plenty of impressive coastal scenery but it was a quiet day surf wise. The main reason we didn’t bother getting into the water was because, in most places, there was an irritating little shore dump. The other reason was that the car air conditioning coped admirably with the 31 degree heat.

One of the beaches we tried to visit was Wiamea Beach of Beach Boys fame. We failed because the quite small car park was completely full. I managed to stop by the side of the road to get the photo but there was no available parking in reasonable proximity. We found that to be the case with many of the beaches.

Honolulu generates at least some of its power with wind turbines. I understand that they are trying very hard to rely on renewable energy. There are some solar panels around but nowhere near as many as in urban Australia.

I was planning on going down to the pool this evening but, when we got home, only one of the lifts was working and only with a manual operator. We successfully got to our 21^st floor unit but I won’t be going down again until satisfied that they have been restored to working order. The people in the pool won’t be coming up either. More touring and beaches tomorrow on the west coast but we will be starting the day with some walks we want to do.