Hawaii

SATURDAY, JANUARY 11

 Viking Sky arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii around 8AM for a 15 hour stay to tour all around Oahu -- Honolulu, the North Shore, Waikiki Beach with the famous surfer Duke Kamehameha statue.

Then it was off to Diamond Head and the Kolohana lookout.

Afterwards, back to the ship.



Our stay concluded with an Evening of Hawaiian Tradition – a Luau!!!!  The “Drums of Polynesia” gave an evening performance on board the ship which included the youngest performer – an adorable 3-yr old learning the hip movements!!!!  


A wonderful time in Honolulu and then off to Kauai.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 12

A beautiful moon sailing to Kauai and into the harbor entrance of Lihue at 8:30AM. 



Our tour today was to the Kilohana Plantation where sugar baron Gaylord Wilcox built a 16,000 sq. ft. plantation estate at the center of 26,000 acres of sugar. We began our tour on the open-air Kauai Plantation Railway taking us through the rare tropical plant gardens as well as the animal farm including wild pigs and roosters and chickens everywhere!!!!  Because the inhabitants relied on shipments of food every two weeks prior to Covid, they truly suffered during Covid and therefore took on the task of growing much of their own produce and raising cows, pigs, chickens etc.

Then on to their show pavilion for a rousing program of hula dancing with lessons for the rookies concluding the show!!!!  Joe and Julie were the stars of course!!!!  There was a mention of rum and Mai Tai’s, so of course had to indulge and they were delicious!!!!  Jim got into the island spirit and bought himself a Koloa Rum festive shirt and hat!!!!




We even managed to find a sports bar prior to departure, and enjoyed the thrilling last-second victory by the Washington Redskins over the TB Bucs.



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