NORTH SHORE

Just when I think I've had the best day of my life that Hanauma Bay like to go to the North Shore. And today they were having a surf contest. First we stopped and had breakfast at a cute little cafe in Hale'ewa. We stopped at the city park there which developers are trying to buy or otherwise acquire so they can put a giant hotel there. This is a horrible idea. While we were there we saw a guy with a 48 Chevy beetle woodie like I had in college. He was kind of using it as a magnet to attract people to come look at his art work, which consisted of fish rubbings.
From there we went up to see the turtle beach. It was only 11 o'clock, so the turtles were still in the water. So we drove on up to Sunset Beach. And that's when we discovered the surfing contest. I think this is the third day of the Volcom, surfing contest. It was overcast, which was nice, because it wasn't too hot to sit on the beach. But it didn't make for very good pictures.
I forgot to mention that we stopped at the Dole plantation on the way out so we had nice fresh pineapple to eat at the beach.
On our way back to that turtle beach we stopped at Sharks Cove, which is just an old shack with some tables outside where they have delicious Ahi sandwiches. You sit there at the tables eating and you can watch the surf crash onto the lagoon across the street and chickens are walking around your feet.
When we got back to the turtle grounds, there were five of them out sunning themselves and we could see at least another five in the water.
Our final stop of the day was in Hale'ewa at the Hale'ewa art gallery. They had one painter who did really wonderful work but the rest of the stuff was pretty boring. They had a lot of large lampwork glass and small blown glass.
So, it was another perfect day. And then just now tonight while I was writing this, they had fireworks we could watch from our balcony.