Trip to Hawaii

[henry]

After Pipeline we went to Turtle Beach. Seeing a 200+ pound sea turtle just chilling out was crazy cool.



We got some lunch at a local shrimp shack and they had some pet tortoises. Food was incredible and I've never eaten shrimp that good before.



The tour guide we made friends with came and got us from our hotel that night and took us up a mountain to a look out to check out the sunset over Honolulu.



After that we went and got some food at a local place, he wanted to take us to touristy places but we said no we wanted to do what he would do normally. We went to a really great restaurant and afterwards to Chinatown for a few drinks with his friends. (Btw your alcohol is so cheap. They had this drink special called White Boy Wasted which was a beer and a whiskey shot. I was definitely a wasted white boy after about 10 of those that and can't remember much else of the night)

[henry]

We did all the shopping in the first few days, which we went nuts on filled two whole suitcases in a few hours. The prices were insane.

I really wanted to take a tour and finally caved at one of the guys hustling on the sidewalk and signed up.

Tour was the highlight for sure. We got a bus at about 9am with about 12 others, who were a whole Asian/Australian mixed family. The tour guide was a Hawaiian guy about our age called Bon Jovy we got on awesome with him and he took us out after the tour with all his mates.



This is Wymea Bay easily the best beach I've ever been too. I actually got told that I couldn't swim there because it was too "rough". I told the life guard it was all good and I'd be fine and ran in. Waves were perfect for body surfing and the whole atmosphere of the place was incredible. Found out later they do the big wave surfing comps there.



After that we went to Pipeline and watched the Junior Sufing comp those kids were amazing and it was such an awesome beach.

[henry]

So we arrived at Honolulu at 6.30am and got to the hotel at 7.15am. First thing we noticed in the airport was customs officers with guns! Made no sense to us haha. We couldn't check into our hotel until noon so we left the bags and went to the beach for a few hours.

These are the first photos I took as we got to the beach. It was amazing.

[henry]

I don't have too many photos on my phone as we took a majority on my finance's phone. (way better camera)

Let me say the US is unbelievable you guys live in the best country on earth.

We both loved Hawaii it was incredible, we've got beaches here apart from Waikiki Hawaii has us beat.

I'll share the photos from my phone then upload my mrs' tonight.