Wednesday, July 22, 2020

 

Missing Hawaii

I am suffering severe cabin fever. We have been confined to the house for months now, only let out for "essential travel". That means my itchy feet haven't been able to travel and I am really missing that. These pictures are of my favourite place in Hawaii, the lawn of the House Without a Key at Halekulani. There is nothing more relaxing than sitting here sipping cocktails, watching the changing light near sunset, and listening to real Hawaiian music. The Oldies took a lot of arty photos here, e.g. the changing colours on Diamond Head framed by the branches of that famous tree, and images taken through a glass of white wine which acts as an inverting lens. Our favourite Hawaiian band is Kapena. As they are so popular they are usually performing in 2 subgroups at 2 seperate venues. This trio is Ohana De Lima Trio (Ohana is Hawaiian for family) - Kelly Boy and his daughter Lilo and nephew (ashamed to admit that I have forgotten his name). Older daughter Kalena and son Kapena were performing at the Disney resort on the other side of the island this night. Most times they have a great hula dancer with them; Dad approves. The big surprise was that Kelly Boy and Lilo recognized us straight away and we had only seen them once before during our second trip to Hawaii. I love the enchanted isles and can't wait for the world to return to something approaching what it was a year ago.

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Thursday, July 02, 2020

 

More Isolation Craft

Well, Canberra is slowly coming out of COVID restrictions. We are able to travel around the ACT and NSW, but not other states yet. So the output of craft stuff is still our main way of filling in time. Mum and I have been making 2 sorts of cards. There are some pretty arty cards like the flowers one, and some crazy ones like the one with the snarky cat. I really like the snarky cat series and am bothering Mum to do more of them. Dad and I are building more ships, all 1/700 scale. The first photo has 3 ships that are important in the history of Pearl Harbour. The small one is the destroyer USS Ward, which sunk a Japanese midget submarine just outside the harbour on the morning of the attack. The middle-sized ship is USS Arizona, the battleship whose wreck is the centrepiece of the Arizona Memorial (see my post of Jan 11, 2014 for images of the site). The largest is USS Missouri the battleship that Dad and I were able to clamber over when we were at Pearl (see the post from Jan 15, 2014 for images of her). And for those who thought that RMS Titanic was the largest ship ever built, just compare it with the Queen Mary 2. The QM2 is not even the largest ship today as many tankers, container ships and aircraft carriers are longer and heavier. However, it is the largest ship that this small bear has ever been on (there are lots of images of that trip, just type Queen Mary in the search box at the top of the page).

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