Beach

When your on an island, you can't NOT go to the beach. Today, we finally got to one. And I will say this, that will be the last time I ever go to the beach. I haven't had that much salt since the last time I ate at McDonalds. I haven't had that much sunburn since...  - actually i've had worse - but still.

I never like the ocean anyways...

Here are some more photos taken by myself.

 couldn't rotate this one.

or this one.

Above are mostly pictures from the hike I had to go on. I only agreed to go so i could get these pictures for my AP art class... and apparently this blog. 

Tomorrow i finally get to go home. wake up at 3 am  arrive home at 3pm. Why? Because we have a detour on the flight back. It may be the shortest day of my life by 4 hours... but its gonna seem like FOREVER.

March 28, 2011

Not only do i have to take 100 or so pictures while on this trip for AP Art, I've got to keep up on my other school work as well. I don't call this a vacation anymore than I call myself a bad photographer. I May be in Maui, but this is just a work place away from home. So far I've been going out and getting a bunch of photos, but still have yet to work on other classes homework. Here are just some of the photos I have taken.

An old and deteriorating wharf

closed to the public. 

This graveyard was found no more than 100 yards away from the wharf.

The photo has not been altered to look B&W, thats just how gloomy and dead looked.

On the way back to the condo from the old wharf.

I thought this would make a good silhouette photo. 

You see that forest there?

Thats actually one tree. Called the Banyan Tree.

One forest, one tree. 

Couldn't really think of a caption for this one...

Just enjoy the photo! 

This one is a little out of focus.

I still like it though. 

And to think I have to pass the stupidest classes in high school to have a chance at getting hired to a job that does graphics design or photography. If you ask me, the entire way teachers and the districts grade needs to be reformed. I shouldn't have failed last quarters English class because i didn't turn in my book report on time. If I know the work and can prove it, what else matters? Anyways, I wont get into that (even though i'm right). On second thought...  - never mind, it's 10:50 p.m. and i'm still in someone else's time zone. Meaning im going to bed about 4 hours earlier than usual. 

March 25, 2011

Quite literally, the longest day of my life. When traveling so far west you tend to gain time in the day. Traveling to Hawaii from Utah gets you an extra four hours. Well to me, four hours seemed more like fourty-eight hours instead. 

The day started at 4 a.m.. Each of us had thrown our bags in the back of the truck and raced for the Airport 50 minutes away to Salt lake City. Airport Security was one of the low-points in the day for me. I had chosen to wear my ACU bottoms which would only stay up if I had a belt fastened around my waste. Well, it just so happens that when passing through security, you must take everything that has metal off and have it go elsewhere for about 60 seconds as you pass through a detector. I knew that of course, but did not plan ahead so well. As i struggled to keep my pants from falling off i had forgotten a few things in my side pockets: My boarding pass and a water bottle. Security had to stop me before going through the detector... twice. 

Below is a picture i took of the sunrise above the clouds over Utah.

Personally i felt that as the worst part of the day, but for everybody else the worst part of the day came when we had our flight delayed in Los Angeles(to Maui). Seconds before the plane was suppose to back out from the docking station, a luggage car ran into one of our engines disabling the aircraft from taking off. That event caused the flight to be delayed by 1hour and 15 minutes as they called in a different aircraft from the hangar.

Below is a picture of San Clemente Island as we leave the west coast.

Yea... those are clouds from 35,000 feet up.

6 hours later, after flying over half of the largest ocean in the world and nothing to look at but the largest ocean in the world, we land in Paradise. I texted my friends "Aloha from Maui" and the first thing i got was "How was the flight?"  I responded instantly with: "If I ever have to look at another body of water again im gonna shoot myself." 

Below is a photo of a tiny gecko we found in the condo.

We figured maybe it was trying to sell us some insurance.