Hawaii

Hello everyone!

This is the story of our time in Oahu, Hawaii: We landed late evening at Honolulu International airport after a short 6 hours flight from California. After getting the rental car, we drove to the North Shore. Our first impression was that Waikiki did not really match the image we had of Hawaii; tall buildings, over packed town... but once we arrived on the North Shore, all of this bad first impression let go, and we finally felt good! There is pretty much nothing in the North Shore, when I say nothing I mean, no big buildings, no streets full of restaurants and shops, but there is a lot more than that to it; beautiful beaches and nature, people moving around on bikes, and of course awesome waves. 

The swell was pretty small for the first few days, but hey, this is the North Shore during winter, so of course it did not last very long! Banzai Pipeline was soon firing 15+ N swell, with all the other famous spots showing what they have. Our days were about finding a cool place to surf, a spot where you won't pee your pants too much (sorry for the expression) each time the set was coming through!

As you have probably read on our Facebook page, we had to stop our trip and come back to NZ so that Simon could get the time he needs to fix his knee. So I am actually writing from beautiful Raglan!

We really hope to be able to go back traveling very soon, but we really want Simon to be better first. The blog will keep on being updated with cool pictures from NZ and more...

I want to thank you all for following us, we had an amazing time on the road, and it sure won't be our last adventure!

Aloha & Mahalo.

Marie and Simon