My friend introduced me to Jack Johnson's music and I like it. He is a surfer and a musician from the North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii. His music has a mellow, nice, flowing touch like that of a surfing waves. Here are a couple of his music video on YouTube. Enjoy:
Sitting, Waiting, Wishing (love this one):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0u-0X8sPe0&feature=related
Upside down with the cute monkey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFjnit1wyus&feature=related
This one is with Ben Stiller, funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KefLz4DDrjo&feature=related
Jack Johnson's music video tribute to Kelly Slater, the greatest pro surfer of all time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW6cREqSdy4
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Waikiki, Ala Moana
The world famous Waikiki beach. This stretch of white sand beach probably one of the most expensive beach front property in the world.
The crowd and tourists
Surfers on waves at Waikiki beach
Surfboard row.
Waikiki skyline seen from the water
This world re-known beach is where the Duke Kahanamoku surfed back in the 1900's. We stopped to visit the famous beach a couple times.
Me and the Duke.
Diamond head, as seen from Ala Moana beach
Got one. Ala Moana beach. Ala Moana beach is a local beach, right next to Waikiki. While Waikiki is where tourists go to, Ala Moana is mostly visit by local people.
Happy!
The crowd and tourists
Surfers on waves at Waikiki beach
Surfboard row.
Waikiki skyline seen from the water
This world re-known beach is where the Duke Kahanamoku surfed back in the 1900's. We stopped to visit the famous beach a couple times.
Me and the Duke.
Diamond head, as seen from Ala Moana beach
Got one. Ala Moana beach. Ala Moana beach is a local beach, right next to Waikiki. While Waikiki is where tourists go to, Ala Moana is mostly visit by local people.
Happy!
Friday, August 22, 2008
Waimea Jumping Rock
Waimea beach is a beautiful place in the North Shore, with sandy beach, tall white clock tower and giant waves in the winter. It is where big wave surfers go to surf 25, 30 ft huge waves. But in the summer, it is usually flat but it is great for swimming, snorkeling, sun tanning and rock jumping. This is the famous jumping rock in the North Shore. Jumping off this rock is like jumping off the roof of your house. I took this picture of the rock, noticed a guy just jumped off the rock in the background. My daughter and I both jumped off this rock but she actually jumped three times and I jumped only one. When you are up there and looking down, it is very scary, your heart beats a little faster. But once you commit, there is no going back. The good thing is it is over so quick, you don't even have time to scare. Fun and exciting.
In the winter months, the waves are huge. Just give you an idea how big the waves really are, look at this video at the surfboard shack web site. At the end of the video, you will see the big wave covered the jumping rock and the rock is at least 20 feet tall.
http://www.surfboardshack.com/waimea.html
Courtesy of surfboardshack.com
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Makaha Farmer Market
On the Saturday we were on the island, Makaha Resorts and Hotel held their first summer Farmer Market on their parking lot and it was fun. There were lot of local fruits, cooked meal, fresh sea fish, cakes, cookies and flower. The people were very nice and friendly. A farming co-op gave out a bunch of bento lunch boxes and I got some for us. A flower shop gave away their flowers to us before they leave and we ended up gave most of them away to another lady because we have no room in our car.
Oh, here are a sample of some local tropical fruits near Makaha and on the island:
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Hawaii Day 2
Second day on the island. We are heading to Hanauma bay for some snorkeling fun but first we need fuel for our stomaches. We stopped by at Waikiki to find some to eat. After got lost and my wife drove on the wrong side of the road once, we found a little Korean restaurant next to a QuickSilver surf shop. It was a fun little interesting Korean place. The lunch specials were pretty good. I had Korean barbecue ribs. We talked to the young Korean waitress and she actually came from Corona, CA. She got tired of big city life so moved to Hawaii to get away from it all. She showed my wife how to eat a special rice dish by mixing a red spicy tofu paste with the rice and it was delicious.
Now with a full stomach, we headed out to Hanauma bay, only found we missed the freeway entrance. Actually it was a good thing because we had to drive on city street and found the Time Asian/Japanese supermarket (http://www.timessupermarket.com/).
Let me tell you, if you are an Asian like me, when in Hawaii, go to Time supermarkets. They have 12 locations in Hawaii and you can buy a lot of different Bento boxes for lunch. They are delicious and priced very reasonable. Eat like the locals and save a ton of cash. We loaded up with food, chips, drinks and ready to get on the road again.
Hanauma bay is so beautiful. We been here before, several years ago but things changed. First of all, there is now a paid parking lot that wasn't there before (or at least we did not have to pay). The most interesting thing about this parking lot is it has a lot of lamp posts and all of them has both a little windmill and a solar cell panel on top. It is always windy and sunny here so I thought that was a great green idea. We had to attend a 10 minute bay orientation, what to touch and what not, before we can head down to the bay. Actually I think it was a great idea too because so many people from all over the world came here to see this beautiful place and if they don't try to education and conserve it, it won't be around for too long.
Here are a few pictures that we took at the bay:
People snorkeling. There are lot of bright colorful tropical fish, blue, red, purple, yellow. Ah, I remember, I saw a couple convict fish. Guess why they call them that?
Just a sample of Hawaii fish. Disclaimer: not mine, this particular pix is from the web, public domain.
In this picture, you can see the coral reef where all the colorful fish lives
View from the top
Me and my beautiful lady
Now with a full stomach, we headed out to Hanauma bay, only found we missed the freeway entrance. Actually it was a good thing because we had to drive on city street and found the Time Asian/Japanese supermarket (http://www.timessupermarket.com/).
Let me tell you, if you are an Asian like me, when in Hawaii, go to Time supermarkets. They have 12 locations in Hawaii and you can buy a lot of different Bento boxes for lunch. They are delicious and priced very reasonable. Eat like the locals and save a ton of cash. We loaded up with food, chips, drinks and ready to get on the road again.
Hanauma bay is so beautiful. We been here before, several years ago but things changed. First of all, there is now a paid parking lot that wasn't there before (or at least we did not have to pay). The most interesting thing about this parking lot is it has a lot of lamp posts and all of them has both a little windmill and a solar cell panel on top. It is always windy and sunny here so I thought that was a great green idea. We had to attend a 10 minute bay orientation, what to touch and what not, before we can head down to the bay. Actually I think it was a great idea too because so many people from all over the world came here to see this beautiful place and if they don't try to education and conserve it, it won't be around for too long.
Here are a few pictures that we took at the bay:
Just a sample of Hawaii fish. Disclaimer: not mine, this particular pix is from the web, public domain.
It has been good...
Just real qwik, the waves have been good this week at Sano, 2-4 ft height, not too big, just the right size. A-frame, rolling. Many good surfers came out and play so it was fun to watch them. Wish I could surf like that. Some day. Great summer days, warm water, great swells, lot of fun. See ya out there.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Hawaii Day 1: Makaha
My family and I took a vacation in Hawaii at the end of June and we had a great time. The vacation was much needed and it left us with many memorable moments and memories.
We left the main land on June 19, flew out to Honolunu on Delta Airlines. The most interesting fact about the flight is they just installed an in-flight entertainment system. Every chair has a flat screen, installed on back of the head rest of the chair in front of you. You can watch news, TV, pay-per-view movies, sports or play games on demand. You supposed to pay for this service but unfortunate for them but lucky for us, the system was down and they had to reboot it a couple times. I think after while they gave up trying to fix it and let us watch everything for free. There were about 30 movies over all. Some just been released shortly in the theaters so we took full advantages of it. My kids watched Jumpers, Hana the young pop singers. My wife watched some chick flicks. I watched the Discovery channel. For the TV channels, it works until the airplane flew out of the LA metropolitan area and we lost all signals. This help us passed the boring long flight. We eat, watch TV, nap nap, go to the restroom, and come back redo the whole routine over for 5 hours.
Finally we landed around 10 pm at night. By the time we got the rental cars, drove to our hotel, Makaha Resort and Golf Club, which is quite far from the air port, and checked in, I think it was already passed midnight.
It was so dark at night so we had no idea how our hotel look like, until we woke up in the morning and the scenery was gorgeous. Take a looks at a couple pictures of Makaha Resort. The green mountain is the hotel's background.
This pictures was taken from the balcony of my room. I like it a lot because it look a lot like a postcard picture:
To be continued...
We left the main land on June 19, flew out to Honolunu on Delta Airlines. The most interesting fact about the flight is they just installed an in-flight entertainment system. Every chair has a flat screen, installed on back of the head rest of the chair in front of you. You can watch news, TV, pay-per-view movies, sports or play games on demand. You supposed to pay for this service but unfortunate for them but lucky for us, the system was down and they had to reboot it a couple times. I think after while they gave up trying to fix it and let us watch everything for free. There were about 30 movies over all. Some just been released shortly in the theaters so we took full advantages of it. My kids watched Jumpers, Hana the young pop singers. My wife watched some chick flicks. I watched the Discovery channel. For the TV channels, it works until the airplane flew out of the LA metropolitan area and we lost all signals. This help us passed the boring long flight. We eat, watch TV, nap nap, go to the restroom, and come back redo the whole routine over for 5 hours.
Finally we landed around 10 pm at night. By the time we got the rental cars, drove to our hotel, Makaha Resort and Golf Club, which is quite far from the air port, and checked in, I think it was already passed midnight.
It was so dark at night so we had no idea how our hotel look like, until we woke up in the morning and the scenery was gorgeous. Take a looks at a couple pictures of Makaha Resort. The green mountain is the hotel's background.
This pictures was taken from the balcony of my room. I like it a lot because it look a lot like a postcard picture:
To be continued...
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