We wandered a bit further along the beach for lunch yesterday, ending up at the Terrace at the Halekulani Hotel which is much more upmarket than where we are staying though we probably have much more space and better views for quarter the price which makes me happy.
Lunch was pleasant but nothing to blog about (a sandwich) so then we visited the local ABC, Waikiki's expensive answer to an upmarket 7/11 and finally made it to the beach for a swim in blissfully lukewarm water.
It cooled down quite noticeably by early evening so we were able to sit out on the balcony, apparently referred to as Lanai here and watch the yachts enjoy a sunset sail.
All very picturesque.
Thankfully this morning we were not rudely awoken by hotel employees, so had breakfast on the Lanai then set out to tackle public transport and access the shopping centre.
The bus across the road took us right to the far side of Ala Moana shopping centre then it was just a couple of blocks walk to Walmart where we thought we'd get a huge choice all in one place. How wrong we were. But as Geoffrey pointed out Walmart was a concept that worked well a couple of decades ago but isn't working now. So we found the bus again and headed home.
Surprisingly, the restaurants round here - or at least those we have ventured into, which aren't many - don't seem to do seafood like Sydney does. Lunchtime offerings are mainly sandwiches and hamburgers. But we found some exceptionally good fish and salad in the end.
More swimming then time to retire to the balcony for the late afternoon/evening sunset spectacular.
We are expecting great things of this evening.
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