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# Thursday, April 14, 2005

Oahu Part 2

Last week I hopped over the pond (the other one) to visit my wife again, and had a great time in Oahu. Going back in 2 weeks and then off to Maui with my family for 6 days. After that my wife comes back home with me :-). Living alone is for the birds.

Two of the highlights:

Turtle Beach (click to see the full album)

Turtle Beach

A bunch of folks hanging out with 4 sea turtles. Everyone was so happy.

Turtle

Isn't he cute?

USS Arizona Memorial (click to see the full album)

USS Arizona

The inside of the memorial.

Oil

The ship is still leaking fuel. It's a realy somber experience watching the oil bubble up. Since the ship is an official Tomb, and final resting place for over 1000 people, they cannot actually enter the ship to investigate the fuel leak. Furtheremore, a lot of folks are opposed to them doing anything about it as they feel the ship is "crying".

 

 

Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:57:15 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
I was at the Arizona Memorial 2 weeks ago!

3 hour wait just to get in (came at 10am, got in at 1pm) which gave a lot of time to go through the submarine and check out all the guns and torpedos they had on display.

I too remember the oil coming up from the ship, it is scary to think that memorial represents the gravestone (with all the names engraved) for all those 1000 out of 2000 dead.
Robert Seal
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