Scenic Drive

Oahu, September 2007

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When you can't stand the crowds of Honolulu any longer you can hop in your car and head to the mountains. Within minutes you can leave everyone behind and find yourself in a rainforest, in fact Em and I were rained on during this drive while looking down at the ever sunny Honolulu.

You will get great views of Honolulu even if you never leave your car on the Tantalus Drive loop but it would be insane to not stop here, at the Pu'u Ualaka'a State Wayside Park. Diamond Head crater is to the left. Amazingly, we were the only people at this park.

This view is taken looking west, Pearl Harbor is to the far right, out of the photo.

Hey, I already warned you that we had the park all to ourselves. Theirs no time like the present to start working on your tan.

Oahu is full of these trees that have the most amazing canopies. I am standing at the base just to the right of the trunk.

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