The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) has been called “the finest small museum in the United States” (J. Carter Brown). It was founded in 1922 and houses a museum, art school, art cafe, coffee bar and souvenir shop. The museum is the largest in the state and has the single largest collection of Asian and […]
Hawaii – Steel Guitar Festival 2021
This past Saturday was the 11th annual Steel Guitar Festival. Normally this is a week long event. It was cancelled in 2020 due to COVID restrictions, and this year was constrained to a single day’s event instead of the normal week. There were four professional steel guitar players in the morning, and four young players […]
Hawaii – Musical Evening With Friends
It was really a fun evening and you can find Matt Felch’s music on his website: www.yesandnoband.com. Matt’s band performs some covers as well as a number of original songs. Pay particular attention to one of my favorite original tunes he has written: “She’s the One”, which can be found in the albums section.
Hawaii – Waikiki
Waikiki Beach is the highlight for any first trip to Hawaii, with its white sandy surfing beach, turquoise blue waters, and numerous water activities. Lined with luxury hotels with Diamond Head as a backdrop, this is what you see in movies and TV series such as Magnum PI and Hawaii 5-0. We went to Duke’s […]
Hawaii – Bishop Museum
We visited the Bishop Museum in Honolulu today. For us, the most captivating display was easily the 10 animatronic dinosaurs, shown in the short 45 second video above. Watch to the end to see Evelyn’s reaction… ☺ The Bishop Museum is primarily comprised of three main exhibit buildings, plus a planetarium that was closed due […]
Hawaii – Pearl Harbor
We spent the morning at the Pearl Harbor Memorial today. The upper image shows the most famous building of the memorial, which is a building sitting over the USS Arizona, sunk during the attack on December 7, 1941. We went during neutral tide, and the small piece of rusted stack (lower left) is the only […]
Hawaii – Magic Island
Just another day in Hawaii, where every day is picturesque. Above is a series showing very typical scenes for us. The upper image is sunrise from our living room and bedroom windows with a view toward Hanauma Bay — a pretty typical photograph that we can capture most mornings. The middle image shows a rainbow […]
Hawaii – Zoo
The Honolulu zoo is also only a 10 minute drive from our condo. We have seen some pretty amazing zoos around the world, and were curious what the Honolulu zoo would be like. Every weekend, there is a display of “Art on the Zoo Fence”, where local artists hang their works on the fence, and […]
Hawaii – Chinatown
Honolulu’s historic Chinatown is a 10 minute drive from our condo, but feels like another world. Evelyn has done some painting sessions there, but I had not seen it, so we decided to stroll through the area and see what shops are available. There was a good variety of seafood available, some of it still […]
Hawaii – Swap Meet
When lists are made of what tourists should do while on Oahu, going to the Swap Meet at the Aloha Stadium is often on the list. Since coming to Hawaii a couple months ago, we have done very few tourist events, but decided to check this flea market out to search for a hat and […]