Pearl Harbor - Tuesday 28th July

Hello all.
Yes, we're back and no ill had befallen us.
Time Warner, the suppliers of the internet service to our apartment had a major glitch to the Waikiki area and once they got that sorted out the modem failed.
The end result is that I am now resuming "normal services" here in Maui.

So, let's step back in time .......

It's Tuesday and after the false start yesterday we are going to Pearl Harbour.
The pick up point for us is the Aloha Landing (it's a big undercover bus parking area) that is attached to the Waikiki Sheraton, which is 10 minutes walk for our apartment. The 18 seater bus leaves as scheduled at 8:30am with our informative and pleasant tour guide, Christine, giving us an explanation of many thing we didn't know about Waikiki, Honolulu and Oahu.

We arrive at Pearl Harbor Museum some 40 minutes later. The tour and the museum is broken into three main parts.
The first part is the main land based area of the museum with lots of displays including quite a few missile and assorted weaponry.
The second and quite short parts is a trip out to the USS Arizona. 
The third part is a tour of the USS Missouri, which was actually only being built when the bombing of Pearl Harbor occurred. 
It is there as a symbol of the end of WWII, as the Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signed the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, formally ending World War II, on the main deck of USS Missouri.

Below are the pictures we took.

Pearl Harbor

USS Arizona

 This is the monument built on floating deck directly above the sunken ship.

Much of it can still be seen and some is still above the waterline.

The two strange looking spots in the water are oil which is still leaking to the surface from the USS Arizona.

USS Missouri

~ A selection of pictures of all sorts of sections of "Big Mo" ~

It is like a small town

The spot where the surrender document was signed

Andy, our very informative, enthusiastic and extremely patriotic tour guide 

Captains dining area

Officers lounge

Bunks like these are in every nook and cranny.

You would need to be a great sleeper as many of them are along walkways 

and all sorts of place that are busy and very noisy.

Rifles

A very big lathe in a very big machine big machine shop

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

A great day that once more proved the futility of war.

That night we ate at Seaside Bar and Grill. I suggest you do not.

Life is way too short to eat food that has been treated so poorly, even if it is cheap. 

It is even more difficult to enjoy when it is served by an old Latino Priscilla Queen of the Desert wannabe that wanted to be our best friend WHILST we were eating.