We stood on the beach and looked at the water.
On the way home we stopped at City Mill to get sand, compost, and cinders, and then we stopped at Foodland Farms in Aina Haina.
On the way home we stopped at City Mill to get sand, compost, and cinders, and then we stopped at Foodland Farms in Aina Haina.
View from the robotics lab, overlooking the pool with Diamond Head in the distance.
ZJ uploaded to Facebook this photo of a student helping a volunteer weld the shooter.
Sakura (flowering cherry tree) at the caretaker's house at Lake Wilson Park.
A sakura flowering in the yard behind the blue house.
We stopped to take photos at this corner house. May is with the camera. Our tour guide is in the pink shirt.
Andrea chats with Annette.
This very small house had a nice Sakura in the front yard.
After the tour we went back to the mission for bento lunch, hula dancing, and karaoke.
This is the cool WCC logo from the hand painted sign.
We parked at the end of the road north of Makaha. Annette drove to the Mokuleia side via H2. We met at Kaena point.
The coastline is quite rugged along the route of the old cane railroad.
Andrea took lots of pictures too.
After an hour or so we sighted Kaena Point and the fence for the bird sanctuary.
Inside the bird sanctuary the path is cordoned with steel cable. Those white spots are nesting albatrosses.
Andrea took this photo of the point. Whitecaps to the right, none on the left.
There's a visual marker tower at the point to warn boats. No light.
Looking landward from the point.
Looking eastward toward Mokuleia.
This is a panorama stitched from the above three photos. Makaha toward the right, Mokuleia toward the left. Click on the image
to see the full sized version.
My photo of the point.
In the evening we went to Simina's place in Waikiki (Waikiki Lanais apartments) for dinner. Derek and
Ron
say hi.
We ate barbecued dinner on the rooftop.
Simina was the perfect hostess. Here she serves Peter and Derek.
Ron and Lenore share the same birthday, so Simina had a cake with candles and we sang Happy Birthday to them.
Assembling the shooter on the bench.
On Tuesday, February 5th, I drove ZJ to Sacred Hearts Academy to get help with some machining.
Students work on assembly later Tuesday evening.
Students working in the Robotics Lab on Tuesday.
We are all set up and ready for the students by 9:00 AM.
Looks like about a hundred students came to help.
Andrea and I were doing the watershed education booth.
The kids removed a lot of leather mudweed (invasive limu) from the water.
Ralph, a marine biologist, did the limu (sea algae) identification education booth.
We used a map of Maunalua Bay as part of the teaching aids.
Intermission at the elevated lobby.
Taiko Drum and Dance program scanned February 16th.
After.
Andrea.
The view toward Kailua with Mount Olomana.
Mathematical calculations on the whiteboard.
Mr. Silver chats with a parent who brought dinner.
Everybody eats: rice, chicken, and bock choy.
Laying out a polycarbonate sheet.
Working on the shooter.
About 50 Wailupe Valley residents and other interested persons attended the AHCA meeting.
The next morning, Valentine's Day, Andrea and I had shave ice at Uncle Clay's.
Then we drove up to the trail to take pictures.
We walked up a ways off the trail too.
The players in action on the court.
During halftime, Virginia Henshaw, former Chancellor of UH, came by to chat with David and Wendy.
This carved head was displayed on an outdoor wall at our house in Torrance for many years before bringing it with us to Hawaii.
This figure was found in the garage closet, mounted on a tile, and varnished.
I bonded this figure onto a brick.
These figures were bonded to tiles so they don't blow over in a wind.
The bonsai are thriving on the new shelf.
Koi tubs are set up under a tent at the Aquarium.
Large koi are carried by two people in plastic bags for loading into the display tubs.
Smaller koi go into smaller tubs.
Some medium sized koi.
This photo appeared in the Star Advertiser on the 10th of February. Kathy Ireland's estate in Aina Haina is being illegally
used for commercial purposes, having not even applied for a conditional use permit (which, naturally, would be denied).
Shame on her. Also see my
Maunalua Hall of Shame
page. Scanned February 16th.
Saturday, February 16th, I barbecued oysters on the half shell for pupus. Andrea took this photo through the kitchen
window screen. Notice the "topsy-turvy" tomato planter hanging from the eave, Andrea's Valentine's Day present.
Barbecuing the oysters.
Oysters "Rickefeller" with cosmopolitans.
The red cloth is to keep metal shavings from falling into mechanisms and electronics.
Here's another wood carving by Prof. Johnson.
Andrea and I brought this suiseki (viewing stone) from California. The Waterfall stone from the Eel River weighs 46.1 pounds.
Click on the image for the full resolution version.
My bonsai bench with four suiseki, also brought with us from California. Click on the image for the full resolution version.
At the Neal Blaisdell Auditorium for the opera. The artistic director introduced the speaker for the pre-show description.
Andrea helps Estell up the ramp to the theater entrance.
During the first of two intermissions I took this photo of the mirrored wall in the lobby, with a bust of Governor Blaisedell.
After the opera we went to Phuket Thai on Queen Street for dinner. Doug, Chris, Estelle, Lenore, and Andrea.
We were pleasantly surprised on Wednesday morning to see Andrea's letter to the editor published.
In the morning we drove up to take pictures of the survey work on the illegal development (subject of the letter above).
Andrea has been thoroughly documenting the illegal work.
There's an abandoned house behind Andrea and to the right across the debris basin from the illegal development.
At noon we got our hair cut. Before.
After.
The next day, Thursday, I went to the beach by myself because Andrea went with Ann Bystrom to KCC to drop off beverages
for the WCC dinner Friday night. Due to rain, the beach was massively uncrowded.
Andrea greeted and checked in the 60 guests.
KCC is on the slopes of Diamond Head.
The first hour was social with wine.
The next hour was a buffet dinner.
Doug and Chris were there too.
Our table waits patiently to be called to the buffet line.
Kalani 3008A team works on their robot.
Andrea chats with Ann.
"A" team on the field.
This painting of Green Rabit Island is on the third floor of the Convention Center. Click the image to see the full
resolution version.
It's a large event.
The girl's team (3008G) talks to some judges.
Next door to the Convention Center is this apartment building with a palm tree style portico.
That evening I made
Red Devils
for Andrea and me.
Picking alliance partners for the elimination matches. Kalani's two teams were not picked.
NASA's Mark Leon leads the kids in the Shuffle.
The first final match. The blue alliance from Hilo and Mililani won.
The Army Corps of Engineers with a City engineer arrived to discuss plans for the flood control project.
Recommendations include expanding the debris basin, adding a debris basin, hardening walls, raising banks,
and adding high walls in the lower stream.
The Army Corps engineer brought this analysis result. The white space in the middle has been revised to show
no flooding for that region (where we live). Click the image to see the full resolution version.
Here's the little pile in front of our neighbor's house, with the little pile in front of the next heighbor's house beyond.
While I was photographing the little piles of debris left by the city truck, I took this photo of the world's oldest stop sign.
After Andrea's dental appointment we had lunch at Kincaid's in Ward Warehouse. We watched boats coming and going in the harbor.
On the way home we went up to Mona street and Andrea took this photo of environmental destruction across the valley.
View of the house from the heiau. The house was built with cut stone by Japanese masons.
The heiau appears square. It was rebuilt using the original stones.
Afterward we had lunch in the smaller house and Chris danced a hula about the Manoa Rainbows.
On the way home, we stopped to take some pictures of the construction at the top of Hao Street.
Andrea took this one of me coming down from the trail at the entrance to the construction work.
Later, on the way to the beach, we stopped at the Verizon kiosk in Kahala Mall to get advice on Andrea's new phone.
Shannon fixed a problem with the memory chip installation and showed us how to get the Facebook app to work.
On the way back from Sans Souci Beach, we hiked down to Diamond Head Beach, completing a "to do" list item.
Later that evening, Andrea tested her phone's camera with a low light picture.
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