Surprise From The Hookers

Jason getting into the helicopter

Windward side of the island

Waimea Bay

Sandra and Jason organised a surprise "kick ass in your paddle race" surprise for me yesterday afternoon. To my delight it was a flight around the island of Oahu in a helicopter!!! SOOOO EXCITEMENT! The flight was amazing and a super duper present - THANK YOU SANDRA AND JASON (lubcheck!).

We headed out to the helicopter in the afternoon - best time for flying because the morning rains are gone. Standing opposite the Honolulu International Airport was a bit surreal because you are never allowed onto the tarmac quiet like this. The pilot was constantly changing his radio frequency to whoever was controlling the airspace he was about the fly through. Military and the airport control tower were the main ones. If they didn't allow us clearance we just hung about until we did!!

The views from the chopper were nuts! Truly an amazing and dramatic landscape. And did you know, that the Big Island is the youngest of all the islands and that's why it still have lava flows!??!

And what an eclectic group of people we had in the chopper. One guy had Jason and I in stiches of laughter just because he wanted to talk about the watermelons and whatevr else he grew on his farm here way back when. Doesn't he realised no-one cares and that whatever you say in the chopper will be recorded and used as evidence against you later!! Seriously, the helicopter records the everything you say and the scenery and then you can buy the DVD and listen to these idoits for the rest of your life!! Too funny. The DVD doesn't to the real thing justice at all. Perhaps my Sanyo footage will.... umm.

By the way, if you don't already know, crackers are crackers and cheese is cheese... checking you are reading!!!

Tinky out xxxx