Although we’ve been around the island already – we decided to rent a car and drive around ourselves. All the cool cars were already gone, but the Dodge Caliber wasn’t that bad 
Our first stop was the beach were we got married. We asked at the hotel if they could direct us to Portlock Beach, but they couldn’t find it in any map. The sent us in the direction of Hawaii Kai and we drove right to the beach! It’s just a very quiet neighbourhood, so we were almost all alone (except for a few gardeners). We went down to the beach and took a few more pictures and some sand from the beach. Then we went almost just across the street to Hawaii Kai Foodland – a large food store where we (of course) bought some food!
It was just the perfect day – sunny and nice and our next stop was Sandy Beach Park. Passing Chinaman’s Hat and house that was used in the first (original) Karate Kid movie – we even drove past a movie shoot!
We then decided to drive down to Kailua – it’s always nice to drive through some neighbourhoods – to see how ppl. live. Kailua was a very nice and pretty place and is worth a visit. We stopped at a view point, but we have no idea if it had a name (the sign at the stop didn’t say anything).
From Kailua we drove to Kaneohe and then to Chinaman’s hat. At the beach we saw some holes and Kim and Rob could later tell us that these were sand crab holes (we never saw any crabs though).
As it was very warm – and even though we had AC running all of the time we stopped at a 7/11 and bought two HUGE “slurpies”. We drove across the street to Hiki Lau beach and had a short break while finishing the cool drinks.
We drove to the north shore where we wanted to see if we could see one of the turtles that’s suppose to live there. We past the beach and saw a lot of ppl. looking at something – so of course we had to turn around and go back. And – our luck – we got to see a turtle resting on the beach! It was about 40 years old and it was recognized by one of its shark bitten flipper.
Anett had read about Matsumoto Shave Ice and JO was so nice to drive there and buy some ice! (even though he doesn’t really care for shave ice).
Since we’d been around the island, but never gone to the west – we drove all the way out to Pokai Bay Beach park.
We decided to head back into Honolulu so we could return the car before 6 pm since Saturday was already planned. You don’t really need a gps for driving around Oahu, but it was good for one thing – finding a gas station. Althought he car didn’t use much petrol we had to return it with a full thank – our luck was a gas station 3 blocks away from the car rental place.
Here are some (or a lot) of pictures from today: (and if Kim or Rob read this – please correct me if I got the names wrong).
