The Waialua Brush Fire is still blazing…. Monday morning, they thought the early morning rains beat down the fire and they would get it under control, but that did not happen. According to the radio news, it has burned over 3,000 acres now, and is nowhere near under control. The first picture was taked about 5:30pm on Monday on our way to Waikiki for dinner.

The second picture was taken about 9pm from about the same vantage point, maybe 1/4 mile further away, and really shows the burning. I should take something with our Sony DVD, which has infared capabilities for night use…. Maybe Tuesday night, unless we get heavy rain from Flossie that might put the fire out….

During our drive down to Waikiki for dinner, we ran through several rain showers, and each one was accompanied by a nice rainbow. Marianne managed to get a couple of them in pictures. The first one is on the inner highlands, near the Dole Plantation, and the second one is in the Aiea, to the west of Honolulu.

There are a pair of parrots on display in the lobby of the Turtle Bay Resort form 9am to 5pm every day. They both sit on a perch in a brass hoop (one hoop for each parrot). When we got down to take the pictures, the red breasted parrot was already put back, so just this one was still on display. He liked to dance back and forth across the perch…

We continued our drive up the east shore and back to the Turtle Bay Resort. There was some pretty nice surf building on the east shore as Hurricane Flossie as it is moving closer to the islands. But, it is expected to pass well south of us on Oahu. However, we may have a rainy Tuesday night and Wednesday from outflow from the storm, just have to wait and see what happens….

We drove over to Kaneohe for lunch via the Pali Highway, but since it was raining, we decided it was not a good day for a hike to the viewpoint. After lunch, we headed up the east shore, and stopped for some pictures at Kualoa Beach Park.

This is called “Chinaman’s Hat” Island, and was taken a couple miles before the park along the highway. The picture below was taken from the park, about 90 degrees around the bay for a different viewpoint.

The mountain ridges just rise right up out of the ocean, with just a small area of flat land between the mountains and the ocean, most places less than 1/4 mile wide…