Paradise

A quick post 
from the shores of Paradise!

A beguiling young lady

with beautiful eyes 
and a fetching tail

will hunt me down

if I don't post 
at least once

while I'm traveling!

<Plumeria




We have rented a studio apartment 
in Ke Iki Beach on the North Shore.
Our place is the bottom story 
of this beach house.

It's basic and cozy.
This is our view
from our door.

We spent a lot of time our first day
just walking the world's most beautiful beach
(from the part of the world I've seen!).
Here's the E-P headed down to the beach
for the first time ~ 
his personal photographer right behind him!

I spent a lot of time trying to catch the perfect wave!

The tall tree in the middle distance

marks the beginning of Banzai Pipeline Beach ~

technically it's a reef break 

off Ehukai Beach Park

in Pupukea on the North Shore,

but people call it Pipeline

including the lifeguard I talked with.

The far point in this next photo

marks the beginning of Sunset Beach.

Pipeline and Sunset are world-renowned 

for surfing on the big waves.

We are not experiencing the big waves

which can be thirty or more feet high.

These are only five or six feet high.

The light is quite different 

late in the afternoon.

Terry, who is much braver than I am,

decided to go for a swim with a bodyboard.

This has to be my Picture of the Day,

if not my Picture of the Trip.

That is Terry!

Upside down in a wave!

Don't worry ~

He survived just fine.

But I decided discretion is the better part of valor

and passed on a dip in the waves for now!

We closed out the beach part 

of our day sipping wine

and watching the sun set.

This one's for Sophie ~

sorry, Girl, no Labradoodles!

Darn palm tree right in the way!

I guess I'll have to move my beach chair ~

oh well, I've got ten more days to get it right!

Please forgive me for not visiting your blogs.

I'll be back in Colorado way too soon, 

and I'll have lots of time to catch up

on all your wonderful posts I'm missing!

Take care, everyone!

Aloha!