{"id":937,"date":"2014-05-17T09:47:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T09:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.7.128\/wpmigrate\/?p=937"},"modified":"2014-05-17T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T09:47:08","slug":"walking-in-waikiki-animals-hula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/travel\/walking-in-waikiki-animals-hula\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking in Waikiki: Animals Hula"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"3a64bb57635b757d04b12bcf0c14b9a3\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9477973674766713\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8885944693\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/images\/walkinginwaikiki.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Walking in Waikiki by Cloudia Charters\" title=\"Walking in Waikiki by Cloudia Charters\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" align=\"left\" \/><em>tripatlas.com\/new proudly features <\/em><em>Cloudia Charters&#8217; <\/em><em>unique <\/em><em>&#8220;Walking in Waikiki&#8221; <\/em><em>column from <\/em><em>a column <\/em><em>from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waikikinews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waikiki News<\/a> that <\/em><em>takes you through the streets of Waikiki and paints a picture of what&#8217;s up-and-coming the neighbourhood of Honolulu in Oahu, Hawaii. Read past <a href=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/walkinginwaikiki_articles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walking in Waikiki Articles on tripatlas.com\/new<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 1px;width: 650px;background-color: #cccccc\"><\/div>\n<p>Schools of small fry continue to animate the harbor.&nbsp; Swarms of tiny arrows &#8211; bigger everyday &#8211; are still learning the stately hula of adult fish.&nbsp; Watching them play &amp; learn, the mind asks: &#8220;What breed are those?&#8221;&nbsp; The imagination murmurs that it doesn&#8217;t really matter as attention shifts, now enraptured by the golden points of sparkle swaying scattered across the unified field of the ocean&#8217;s surface.&nbsp; .&nbsp; .&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/images\/articles\/waikikihulafestival.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Kava Festival\" title=\"Kava Festival\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" align=\"left\" \/>I attended the <strong>Kava<\/strong> <strong>Festival<\/strong> and limited my consumption to one muddy cup of the Polynesian elixir.&nbsp; Still, I forgot to take any pictures, and felt <em>ultra<\/em>-relaxed for two days! Ahhh. . .<\/p>\n<p>Few people walking along the beach path behind the military&#8217;s <strong>Hale<\/strong> <strong>Koa<\/strong> (&#8220;Warrior House&#8221;) <strong>Hotel<\/strong> realize what history lies just below their feet.&nbsp; The cement walkway used to lie below the surface of the beach behind a retaining wall that you can still see and walk on as part of today&#8217;s sidewalk.&nbsp; Sentries could use the defensive position in case of attack from the sea.&nbsp; Much of Waikiki Beach, in fact, was barb-wired and &#8216;off limits&#8217; for much of WWII.&nbsp; The navy requisitioned the <strong>Royal Hawaiian<\/strong> and we now know that Japanese submarines often came as close to the beach as possible in order to enjoy the big band music that the sailors danced to.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That grass covered &#8220;hill&#8221; behind the beach is actually Battery Randolph, a defensive gun position so massive that efforts to level it were abandoned.&nbsp; Now it houses the army museum.&nbsp; A Sherman tank, and a few of its comrades from both sides, are parked irresistibly in front where kids can break the rules and climb on them. I enjoy the visual dialogue between the WWII howitzer and the monarchy-era cannon. Both seem hopelessly antiquated as new fighter planes roar overhead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This part of Waikiki beach always hosts lots of warriors; those leaving\/returning from active duty as well as veterans revisiting their youth.&nbsp; Fresh tattoos on muscled biceps, blurred old Sailor Jerry &#8216;hula girl&#8217; tattoos, and the young, tanned, un-inked skin of military dependants, all tell their stories in the sun.&nbsp; Memories and dreams mingle underneath the palms with the smell of barbeque, just like Valhalla.&nbsp; In front of the Army Museum, a circle of sentinel tikis, carved by Hawaiian-blooded artist <strong>Rocky Jensen<\/strong>, honors the warriors, <strong>Na Koa<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>of &#8216;pre-contact&#8217; Hawaii. .&nbsp; .&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/images\/articles\/waikikihulahotel.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Outrigger Reef Hotel \" title=\"Outrigger Reef Hotel \" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" align=\"left\" \/>Continuing along Kalia Road we come to the refreshed <strong>Outrigger Reef Hotel<\/strong> with its new Polynesian canoe hale overhang and museum-quality artifacts throughout the lobby.&nbsp; Sometimes I like to pause right in front where <strong>Don Ho<\/strong> and <strong>Sam Kapu <\/strong>strummed ukulele and sang for Bobby &amp; Cindy Brady in that episode when the Brady Bunch Went Hawaiian.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Then I look at the <strong>Roy&#8217;s<\/strong> restaurant where the fast food place used to be and I realize that Waikiki is always fresh, always renewing (like the surf, like the seasons) even if she is always wrapped in precious and beautiful memories of a storied past.&nbsp; Just then a fragrant bride and groom (Covered in lei) exit a white limo onto the sidewalk beside me.&nbsp; Lots of &#8220;Congratulations!&#8221; from complete strangers fall like rice as I trail along in their wake as they float&nbsp;down the sidewalk.&nbsp; We&#8217;re just the blurry faces in the background of their special memories, passers-by they don&#8217;t notice in their bliss, but their joy rubs off on everyone.&nbsp; Everyday our streets are full of such sights &amp; joys.&nbsp; Memories are being created all around me as I stroll through my own daily errands and musings.&nbsp; Lucky I live Hawaii.&nbsp; .&nbsp; .&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"3a64bb57635b757d04b12bcf0c14b9a3\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9477973674766713\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8885944693\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Have you been very, <em>very<\/em> good?&nbsp; Then treat yourself to an early dinner at <strong>Ruth&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong>Chris<\/strong> Steak House at Lewers Street.&nbsp; The happy buzz of our &#8216;Paris in Flip Flops&#8217; is hushed as you enter the pristine room and peruse the five o&#8217;clock early menu.&nbsp; Pleasantly tired feelings sing harmony with the rising anticipation of another tropical night&#8217;s music &amp; moonlight as you sip a cool drink.&nbsp; No TV, no newspaper, no distractions.&nbsp; None needed.&nbsp; Soon the hottest plate you&#8217;ve never touched is placed before you, and for a short while no president or corporate mogul is eating better than you are &#8211; and you certainly deserve it.&nbsp; .&nbsp; .&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/images\/articles\/waikikihulawhale.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Humpback Whale\" title=\"Humpback Whale\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" align=\"right\" \/>Rejoining the throng outside, I&#8217;m struck once again by the beautifully relaxed faces around me.&nbsp; A beloved Hawaiian song comes to mind: &#8220;Kaulana Na Pua&#8221; (Famous are the Flowers of Hawaii).&nbsp; The flowers of the title are really a poetic allusion to the people of Hawaii, the true blooms of these islands. Why don&#8217;t YOU come wave in our breezes for a while?&nbsp; .&nbsp; .&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Humpback whales have been spotted in the vicinity of Maui and the Big Island.&nbsp; It&#8217;s just a matter of time before we&#8217;ll see their spouts off of Waikiki.&nbsp; Trade-wind winter is coming and before we know it, Santa will be arriving in his outrigger canoe!&nbsp; Sometimes the tall hotels and happy sidewalks cause us to forget that our town is just a small human place in the middle of vast oceanic nature.&nbsp; Sea turtles feed in the Waikiki dusk right beside wading visitors who can&#8217;t believe their eyes.&nbsp; A sacred and rare <strong>Pueo<\/strong> (Hawaiian short-eared owl) has lately been spotted on the grounds of historic <strong>Iolani Palace<\/strong> in the heart of downtown Honolulu, and the endangered <strong>Puaiohi <\/strong>bird i<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/images\/articles\/waikikihulaelvis.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Elvis and a female companion\" title=\"Elvis and a female companion\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" align=\"right\" \/>s staging a comeback in the forests of <strong>Kaua`i<\/strong>. <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Local resident Jim Snyder has even found a new resident!&nbsp; Zizina otis, the lesser grass blue butterfly, is now happily established in parks and vacant lots right here in Waikiki.&nbsp; These frail natives of Asia and Africa have never been seen here before. &#8220;I&#8217;ve trained my eyes to be so observant that I see things others don&#8217;t see &#8211; you see amazing things out there,&#8221; Mr. Snyder told a local reporter.&nbsp; Yes indeed, especially here in the sandy, fragrant streets of Waikiki!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I made a great &#8216;find&#8217; myself, just minding my business downtown on King Street:&nbsp; <strong>Elvis<\/strong> and a female companion were enjoying their day, riding in the back of a pickup truck.&nbsp; I would have kept this to myself.&nbsp; .&nbsp; . Except THIS time I remembered to snap a picture.&nbsp; .&nbsp; .&nbsp; So come join us at Da Beach.&nbsp; You never know what you&#8217;re going to see next. .&nbsp; .&nbsp; When you&#8217;re Walking in Waikiki.&nbsp; .&nbsp; .&nbsp; <strong><em>ALOHA<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally publish<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff\">ed in Oct 2008 i<\/span>n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waikikinews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waikiki News<\/a> and was reproduced with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Surf&#8217;s up on the sunny shores of Waikiki Beach. 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