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The very last Hawaii #3 post

I had time to edit down our 58 minute long flight to a mere 10 minutes.

 

If you’re a pilot, I think this is worth watching and listening to the whole way through. Tom talks a bit about take off and landing, turning, where people fly in the area and such.

If you aren’t a pilot, skip around. The scenery changes a few times, but the take off, landing and the cloud bits in the middle are my favourites!

Last photos

I still have a flying video to post, but here are the last of my photos.

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The powered hang gliders flew by our house on the North Shore regularly and one time I got my long lens out quickly enough to grab this photo.
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One night we went out on the North Shore beach and took some photos. Miranda has some super awesome photos, but I forgot my tripod and just fooled around. That light is the moon, poorly lit.
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My camera has an ISO 25600 mode. That’s a lot of ISO…that’s a lot of noise. This is handheld. 😛
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Miranda takes photos by moonlight.
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A finger above the mountain just to the right of the middle of a spec of black paraglider.
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Closer…
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There he is!

Kualoa Ranch

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They had a petting zoo, and a turtle.
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Miranda poses with the turtle and a pig.
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We find cats where ever we go.
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Our tour bus.
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The valley.
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Hurley’s Golf Course. This is the best photo we got of it. 🙁 Would have loved to have walked up to the sign.
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Just a random sticker on a random box inside of a bunker on the property.
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Inside the bunker they had a bunch of photos from the shooting and signed memorabilia and such.

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Turtle Photos!

We drove to Papa’iloa Beach to try to find a Lost filming location. Instead we found a shit ton of turtles.

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There was a turtle at the end of this path and he pulled himself back into the ocean.
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3 of the 8 turtles surrounding us.
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THE KINGDOM OF TURTLES IS AT HAND!!
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It turns out they like this green stuff. 3 girls were hanging out feeding them, and they showed us how…

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I think this is the best photo of the lot.

Diamond Head

This hike is a requirement while you’re in Honolulu, and it’s easy to see why – a relatively easy hike, really accessible from the city and a phenomenal view!

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The view inside the crater, of folks still climbing up.
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The city. Some co-workers of mine climbed the fence right in front of me to get a photo from that bunker on the right…
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Panorama of the ocean towards the city.

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Trikes!

Our powered hang gliders had two cameras mounted on them, one for still shots and one for video, so all of these photos have the glider in the same position.

We flew with Tom and Denise from Paradise Air in O’ahu, these guys are great!

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Take off!

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Flying over pineapple fields.

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3000 feet up above the clouds! We flew above them from the interior of the island, looking for a place along the coast to drop down into.

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Videos!!

I have 6 videos for you, all of which are either short or amazing.

I thought some video of circling around coral would be nice.

These fish are nibbling at the statue.

These fish accepted me as their brother.

Run little fishy!

When we found those 8 turtles on Papa’iloa Beach, we took some close up video.

The best video I’ve ever taken: TURTLE FIGHT! I came back later and the big dude was hanging out under the rock getting his shell cleaned by some fishies.

Stand Up Paddleboarding Photos!

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Miranda said I should fall for the camera. I pretended she was catching me mid fall.
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Paddling under the bridge into Hale’iwa.
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Standing up is hard.
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The day was not nearly as ominous as it looks.
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Barnacle followed us up the river for a while. Or, we chased him up the river.
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Standing up is hard!

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Barnacle’s little (HUGE!) head poking out for a breath.
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I am actually in the middle of falling here. I was trying to fall onto my ass to sit down.