Sunset on the beach in front of our cabins in Waianae with a board paddler making his way across the bay.

Atypical evening gathering to discuss life in the tropics and how strenuous the next day on the beach might become...

Micah trying to decide how much help if any he should lend to his Dad and brother as they struggle to climb the steep cliff face near the raging ocean swells..... or so the story goes.

Brian Gamponia - contemplating the ocean.

This is Waimea Bay and the entrance to Waimea canyon that leads to Waimea falls. This is on the famous North Shore of Oahu where in the winter time, the surf is world class.

The Dole Pineapple Plantation Visitors Center near Wahiawa with a maze from which I have been told they must extricate an occasional visitor who doesn’t make their way out by nightfall. Since my family worked for the DelMonte Pineapple Plantations in Kunia, in order to avoid getting in trouble for having anything named "Dole" in my possession, I must claim that these photos are a reconnaissance of the enemy.

This is Wahiawa town in the middle of the island in Oahu. I lived in Wahiawa Heights straight up in the center back of the town in the photo.

This is Millilani Cemetary where some of my family rest in peace.

The USS Arizona Memorial. It still leaks a little oil from all those years ago...

The Battleship Missouri where the surrender of the Japanese Fleet took place. She is now docked at her berth at Ford Island in Pearl Harbor.

A famous property on the eastern side of Oahu. If you watched enough TV, you should recognize the main house and tennis courts. The red ferrari is not seen anywhere in this photo.

Kahana Valley on the eastern side of Oahu. The image you would have seen is from the ground and leading in towards the mountains into the valley in the movie "Jurassic Park".

The Laie Hawaii Temple sits on the original Mormon landholdings of Hawaii known as Laie Plantation

Sacred Falls. This is just a magnificent view and since the State of Hawaii has closed the park to hikers due to the steep and treacherous hike to see the falls from the ground, this beautiful sight is only seen by visitors taking a helicopter tour. In past years, several hikers were killed in attempting the difficult hike to the falls.

The Kahuku wind farm and the Opana Radar Station on the bluffs above Turtle Bay. The Opana Radar site is where the first operational radar trucks sat on 7 December 1941 that detected the flight of Japanese fighters and bombers that signaled the beginning of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The flight was detected and reported, but instead, believed to be a flight of Army B-17 Flying Fortress bombers scheduled to arrive at that morning and therefore ignored.

OK... I think she is HOT.