Highlights:
-Diamond Head Crater hike & Running Descent '07
**In a nutshell, we had precious little time to hike this crater/mountain before our submarine tour later that morning and as usual, we were running 'behind'. So, we hiked to the top (posted signs say to allot 60-90 mins for the 1.5 mile roundtrip hike) in about 20 minutes straight up the hairpin turn mountainside and then we thought it would be fun to run down the .75 mile. We did it in 5 minutes. Let me tell you, going down was waaaaaay easier than climbing up! Oh yeah, then we ran back to our car another .25 mile. Yay sweatiness!...you'll note the sweat in the pictures from the top.
-Atlantis Submarine dive http://www.atlantisadventures.com/oahu.cfm
**Awesome 48-person passenger submarine. Saw turtles and lots of fish, including a white-tipped shark. Coo. Colors change the deeper you go and by 115 feet (our max depth), everything looked funny, including our gum!
-Koko's Cafe lunch (Hale Koa) & Tropical Itch back scratcher
**Charlie got hammered off of a fruity tropical drink, with Bourbon, Rum and other goodness in it. For grins, they gave him a wooden back-scratcher to keep. Nice! Made for a lazy afternoon.
-Beach hangout
**See above comment about the Tropical Itch
-Penguin sighting & turtle fighting
**The mongo hotel complex next door (Hilton Hawaiian Village...?) has everything you can imagine, including penguins from S. Africa and regular ol' turtles. Their were 2 turtles who were rumbling in the preverbial Bronx. They circled each other face-to-face and then ATTACK! One bit the other one's neck skin/fat and they thrashed through the pool of water for a bit. It was cool...and a bit like being on tropical safari.
-Duke's dinner in Waikiki...mmmm Opa fish dinner, delish!
PICTURES AT: http://picasaweb.google.com/marshiks/2007_09_25Day7Hawaii
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