Hawaii Day 3

February 22, 2022

Tuesday morning we had hoped to catch Pali Points look out first thing in the morning but due to a late start we decided to postpone Pali point and headed straight to the Byodo-In temple.

In 1968 Hawaii wanted to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants so one of the things they did was build this scale model of the 900 year old original temple in Kyoto, The original is a Unesco World Heritage site. The best part of the temple was that they let us ring the huge  bell.  

From the temple we headed for the Lanikai Ridge Pill Box trail. What a beautiful hike. It was very steep and rugged but only a couple of miles long. The view from the top was amazing. We looked down on crystal clear waters and two beautiful islands. I believe the locals call them the twins. That beach you see there is our next stop.

The pill boxes were built in world war two and had guns to defend the islands from a Japanese 

 invasion. I’ll bet it was pretty loud inside here when those guns were firing.   

The ridge goes on and we were told that there were more pill boxes down the trail but after we had fully checked out these two we headed down the hill and out onto a beautiful beach.

Lanikai beach was beautiful and while the water wasn’t as warm as the water at the Electric beach it was still wonderful. Lisa sat and read a book while soaking up some vitamin D and I gave snorkeling another try.

Within the first minute I saw little pieces of coral and as I got further out they became more and more continuous. Once I got out a bit further I started seeing tons of fish as well. Lisa gave it a try as well but the waves made her too nervous.

After the hike and before the beach we grabbed lunch at a place called Kono’s. It may have been the best pulled pork sandwich I have ever eaten. You know it is a great place when people are lined up all along the sidewalk. Due to Covid no one could eat inside but we all sat on the steps and benches in front of the place. We also had several of those crazy chickens looking for a hand out as well. 

After we were done at the beach we headed back to Lyndsey’s for a nice steak dinner. It was another great day.