Staying on Eastern Time to Get the Most out of Honolulu

posted on : May 10, 2019 posted by : SometimesIVacay 0 Comment

Have you been to the Pearl Harbor Memorial? What did you think?
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#HawaiianVacay Day 2.1- Pearl Harbor Memorial Museum
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We were still on Atlanta time, so we woke up around 4:30, which turned out to be a good thing!
By 6:30 am, we’d showered & gotten ready and called an Uber (not expensive) to go to the Pearl Harbor National Memorial. Note: If you get to the memorial too late, you’ll have to pay; even later, and they might cancel the boat ride out to the memorial because of the wind.The first ~200 persons tickets are free. Including the uber, it took maybe 2-3 hours. Cost: Ticket: Free. Postcards: $1.05. Uber to/from Pearl Harbor: $30(?) Total: $32.00

As a side note, for graduation, my dad got me a new mirrorless camera, the Sony a6000 and that is what I used for most of the pictures from this trip! (Although, sometimes I just used my iPhone and at the time, I had the iPhone 6s.)

Oh my goodness, one of the best parts of this whole day was the fantastic Uber we got returning from the National Memorial. It was completely Hawaii Five-O themed, played the theme song, and was decked out with paraphernalia inside!

After exploring the Pearl Harbor Memorial Museum, we went back to our friends’ apartment and decided it was time to venture out to our first beach!

Back at the apartment, our friends were awake and we changed to go to the beach.

Waikiki Beach. I mean, you just have to do it.
Paddle Boarding. later on we also rented surf boards, paddling was so much easier! The main reason we went for these was that the surf was pretty flat. Our friend got us the military discount.Rental. $40.
Cost: Parking. $15 at the Zoo.
Photography: while in the water, we used the GoPro Hero5 Session.

Lunch: Nico’s Pier 38.

This one is a touch out of the way. But it was the BEST fish that we had in Hawaii, and we had a TON of pretty amazing fish (Kyle said it was 100% the best raw fish, bar none, that he’s ever had in his entire life!).
So, it’s completely worth going there!
If you’re not into raw fish, they also have a restaurant with cooked foods and fishes :). It’s a cool place and if you sit outside, you can see some docks and piers and stuff. Pretty neat and seems like a mostly-local place.
Cost:Parking: Free. Poke Bowls: (~.5-1.o lb fish) $15. Total: ~ $30.

Funtivity: Koko Head Trail.

This was a super intense, almost straight-up hike. It was AWESOME though.
This hike also had some seriously incredibly beautiful views! It’s definitely work, and it was hard and a little freaky at some points. But it was really breathtaking and I would definitely do it again.
Cost: Parking: Free. Hiking: Free.
Pictures: IG | IG
Fav Gym Clothes: Fabletics!

Dinner: Moku Kitchen.

This was a very casual-dining experience in this neat little shopping center that looked like it had been consructed out of shipping crates.
It’s by Peter Merriman, who has 2 other restaurants (I’ll reference them later)
It combines traditional hawaiian, polynesian, and southeastern asian flavors. Get the duck tacos. You won’t regret it! Kyle’s been trying to replicate them ever since!
Photos: IG.