Last full day in this lovely place. After breakfast, we decided to play tourist in Haleiwa town. We navigated there, remembering which exits to take from both traffic circles, and found a parking spot in front of an art gallery on the verge/walking path. Hey, everybody does it!
We wandered around in various stores, not finding anything we wanted to buy until we found t-shirt and sox in a surf shop.
Walked down to the far end of town, stopping by Teddy’s Burger Bar to get Coke and Dr. Pepper.
At the far end of main street is the marina. We walked up onto the stone breakwater to see what was on the other side. There is a big surf place somewhere here that is part of the Van’s Triple Crown, but we didn’t see anything that big right around there.
Some people fishing off the breakwater, and more garbage than is usual.
This town has been a surfer mecca for a long time. The first food truck on the North Shore was here, back in the 1970s. I wonder what it was like then?
Back to camp, and we were visited by a guy and his father-in-law, who were interested in the van. We gave them a tour. The guy and his wife have four children and they were travelling with her parents, so a bit of a squeeze! They were staying in one of the canvas tent houses (“hales”) you can rent here.
He is a bureaucrat with the US Department of Agriculture, based in Honolulu, with responsibilities in American territories, so American Samoa, Guam, Marshall Islands, etc. so he was often flying out to them.
I was surprised to hear that he’d be based in Hawaii, but maybe it makes sense, as it’s so much closer to those places than DC is. He said Oahu runs on military and federal government, with tourism on top. Population about a million, about 2/3 of the population of the entire state. What a strange place this is.
Went for a swim and a beach walk. Got a text from Tom saying take a walk on the beach for me, so here is your beach walk, Tom.
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