In 2010, I spent about a week on Oahu with fellow members of a fraternal organization for our 75th reunion. Following are a couple galleries from the trip including scooting around the island on mopeds, hiking to Manoa Falls, stepping foot on the infamous pipeline beach, snorkeling with sea turtles and much more!
stunning, eh?
Diamondhead Peak at dusk
drinking from a coconut!
beautiful sunset
can’t get enough sunsets!
we took many “all-you-can-drink” catamaran rides
Our awesome Captain
We’re on a boat!
swimming about a mile offshore!
Waikiki Beach with Diamondhead in the background
Rest in Peace Miya
Plumeria – one of my favorite flowers and smells
friends =D
delicious tacos in Hawaii! I’ll take it!
One of our alumni is retired from Hololulu PD and got us a full tour of the department!
Hike to Manoa Falls, mopedding, & North Shore
beautiful tree on the way to Manoa Falls
Manoa Falls
scootin round the island! So much fun!
Pineapple @Dole Plantation
Hanging with a pineapple worker
Paradise!
Infamous Pipeline
Scallop the turtle! I got to snorkel with some turtles. They are an endangered and protected species in Hawaii and this particular beach has volunteers who watch over the turtles 24 hours a day! There is a huge fine for even touching them!
drinking coconut water fresh from the source!
Beautiful fruit at a roadside fruitstand
North shore from a vantage point around the middle of the island
Pearl Harbor – USS Arizona Memorial and the USS Missouri
USS Missouri
Pearl Harbor Memorial seen from the USS Missouri
the big guns – Each gun weighs 230,000 pounds, or about as much as a space shuttle.
Just hangin with some sailors!!
The spot where WWII ended!!
Aerial view of the USS Arizona Memorial – credit to Wikipedia http://tinyurl.com/anedqcp
Wreckage of the USS Arizona. It’s eerie because 1,102 of the 1,177 Sailors and Marines eternally rest in these waters
“To the Memory of the Gallant Men Here Entombed and their shipmates who gave their lives in action on 7 December 1941, on the U.S.S. Arizona”
Part of the USS Arizona that is still above water
And the reason we were in Oahu in the first place – our Banquet Reunion Dinner
My fraternity brothers and I at our banquet dinner
75th Reunion of Chi Pi Sigma
Have Life, Will Travel! 
lovely!
Thank you! =D