In Hawaii ! Pics !!
 

I've returned to da islands after a lengthy absence and wanted to share some photos. Hope this isn't too narcisistic (sp?) to have a WHOLE separate thread..but I hope to add several as time goes on.

Here's some for now. The house and the cabin I'm caretaking for on the Waianae Range. I hike on the trail on the ridge above the cabin about 1/2 mile away. The photo looking down is toward Nanakuli on the west side of Oahu from the ridge and the mountain shows the peak (Palikea) I hiked to. This place is up behind 2 locked gates with very exclusive access. I'm very fortunate to have such friends.

woah.

I take it you might like to be there !

I'm on a shakey internet so will try to post some more later...

I'm heading to the beach ! I'll have photos of that then..

Aloha !!

fucking amazing! apart from the volcanics it looks a lot like the interior of puerto rico!

Mahalo!

spiders happen in hawaii!

my friend just made a temporary move to hawaii to "sort shit out."

either it will result in peace and tranquility or hawaii's worst drug habit ever.




.....speaking of which, how's bad is the meth down there?

looks like a nice place from the pics

wow. Pretty. The house/cabin thingy looks like a pretty awesome place to stay.

I am extremely jealous.

i want to go to puerto rico so bad.


shuddup.

yr sleeping on the couch tonight.

please post more pics! those look awesome.. I'd LOVE to go to hawaii. black volcano sand!

Here's a couple more...

The one with the waves is Makapuu, my favorite beach on Oahu. I prefer the waves at Sandy Beach..but the beauty of Mak is unreal !

The one with all the people on the rocks is Waimea Bay on the North Shore. This is where the HUGE waves are surfed in the winter...google "waimea bay shorebreak" if you want to see what it looks like during it's prime season...

A buddy of mine sailed into the bay and I swam out to meet him and partied on the boat for awhile..that was fun !

The other pic is from the knifedge ridge above the cabin looking back toward Honolulu and Pearl Harbor. The soil out is is, of course, all volcanic so it has that surreal red quality...

I'm going crazy with my connection. It just took me 40 minutes to upload 3 pics to my photobucket and post here..fuckin' DIALUP !!!

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A few more and I'm done for now...this is taking forever...

One is part of the trail. Since the Nature Conservancy occasionally comes up here, they've put in steps on some steeper sections.

And another is Makapuu again from some cliffs adjacent to the beach.

Then the other is a wildass flower along the trail. I don't know what it is but it's pretty big and very cool.

oh that last pic is so pretty!

and the beaches too.

is that a bromeliad? super cool plants.

wow, looks so cool

paka-lolo!

Glad to hear everything is going well. Nice to see you got your change of pace.

I'll be in Oahu in a couple weeks! Thanks for the preview.

hey Dead-Air, I'm trying to PM you about coming to Oahu !

We could definately meetup, I was just on the Northshore today...

And I think you meant Turtle Bay, that's the only resort up there !

PM me again when you get the chance and clear some of your PM's to make space....

reg

Hey...

I just spoke with Dead-Air and we're getting together tomorrow and going hiking and checking out a waterfall and more !!

It'll be great to meet him here in Hawaii and check out the surroundings. I'm bringing him up here where I'm staying and we'll hike the ridge in this picture from the 'hump' on the far left where you can barely see some antenna's to the highest point in the middle of the pic along the ridge. Some of my previous pics are of this place.

I'm excited to share this trail as NO ONE is hardly ever here because of such exclusive access. Yee haa !!! The trail is about 3,000 feet in elevation.

Here's my first small batch of photos from the Oahu trip (these ones are before Reg and I met up...)









(this last one isn't too far from where he took us hiking actually). More to come!

 

More to come still, this is all still pre-Reg meetup

O.k., here's the Reg meet-up at last. The hike he took us on was really fucking amazing. So funny that I can't successfully meet a huge group of boardies at a Sonic Youth show in Portland, yet I can meet one in Oahu!

these three are actually from the beach by our condo the day before:

I hope Reg is o.k., haven't heard from him since we left, and he didn't exactly have a plan for when his housesitting gig ended. Here are a few holgas from the trip:

tl;dr and....