solemn lantern by Booga

via solemn lantern by Booga – Chronicles of a Love Affair with Nature.

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Byodo-In Temple – Valley of the Temples by lenticulartravel

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500px / Ka`a`awa by Eric Esterle

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via 500px / Ka`a`awa by Eric Esterle

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Makapu’u Lighthouse at Sunrise, Oahu, Hawaii, USA

Makapu’u Lighthouse at Sunrise, Oahu, Hawaii, USA.

North Shore Ke-Iki Sunset 9889 (by JOHN PHILPOTTS)… via Tumblr

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Breathtaking Planet Earth 2014_North_Shore_Ke-Iki_Sunset-9889 (by JOHN PHILPOTTS… via Tumblr

 

8 Reasons to Love Honolulu

My dad spent part of the war based on Oahu and couldn’t wait to return; a goal he achieved briefly many, many years later. He never spoke of whether the return visit lived up to his expectations.

Brian and Shannon, however, have made a persuasive argument for more than a change of flights in Honolulu, something I’ve not previously found tempting.

Everywhere Once

Whenever we’ve asked for advice about where to go in Hawaii, whether for this latest excursion or one twenty years earlier, we invariably hear the same suggestion: skip Honolulu. It’s a place where the conventional wisdom has travelers stopping only long enough to catch a connecting flight to some other, presumably better, Hawaiian destination. We’re told Honolulu is too crowded; too touristy; too developed; too this or too that.

That’s too bad. Because what we found in Honolulu is an island city with almost too many great things to count. That won’t stop us from trying, though. We love Honolulu, and here’s our abbreviated list of reasons why you should too.

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Blue Hawaii – Pipeline, North Shore, Oahu – David Orias

Blue Hawaii – Pipeline, North Shore, Oahu.  Reblogged from PhotoBotos.com, 28 January 2013

This masterful piece by David Orias is for all those, particularly here in the UK, who sorely miss summer.  Have courage, summer approaches, even if the surf off Cornwall doesn’t quite match this…

blue hawaii, taken at the banzai pipeline masters, north shore of oahu (image: david orias, courtesy photobotos.com)