North Shore Scouting: La’ie Point

5/3

After a fulfilling lunch at our cottage, we were off for some location scouting.

Driving towards north, we passed by a few potential locations.

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Somewhere before La’ie

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No winners here.

So, we kept on driving. We passed by one of the most popular attractions on the island Polynesian Cultural Center but we didn’t pay a visit.

We followed our map and came to La’ie Point (northeastern of Oahu).

La’ie Point

Oh! What a breathtaking sight!

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The sky was a little hazy due to volcano eruptions at one of the islands nearby.

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This point is made up of sandstone with several smaller islands off shore.

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K & R – scouting

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Radim

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Karan- scouting

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Potential spot?

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Ocean slowly dissolves the sandstone and creates beautiful art of Nature.

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Can you imagine if you miss a step and fall on these rocks?

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Rock arch off La’ie Point

This arch was created by nature in ONE day when tsunami punched a hole through the island in 1946. Talk about the power of nature!

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Rock arch off La’ie Point

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Enjoying the view while listening to the symphony of crashing waves (remember to walk carefully!)

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Good shore fishing from sea cliffs

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They caught a huge turtle! I am not sure it’s by law or not, they let the turtle go.

This spot is not crowded. It’s free and has great view. No facilities though.

Who knows how long the arch will stay? Enjoy the view before it’s gone.

Kalua Egg Panini

5/3

K & R came back from sunrise shoot before noon, feeling exhausted.

Since I stayed home and was feeling soooo refreshed, I volunteered to make lunch. I was pretty sick of eating out anyway.

There were some leftover kalua pork and poke, so I thought yummy paninis would make perfect lunch for all of us.

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Tropical breakfast

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Kalua pork/egg/cheese panini, poke. I didn’t have any panini maker with me. So, I placed heavy plate on top of the panini.  That worked perfectly. 🙂

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I got tired looking but happy customers!

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happy chef!

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happy chef does a happy jump (Wearing sarong, I totally represent Malaysia!)

Fisherman’s Hat Sunrise

6/10

(Note: I am still processing photos from my Hawaii trip. I am really enjoying summer and want to spend as little time in front of computer as I can.) 🙂

5/3

K & R headed out early at 5am for a sunrise shoot.

I opted to sleep in to get much needed rest. :ohzzz:

I got up at 7am, walked out to the garden and saw this spectacular sunrise.

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The island in the photo is called Chinaman’s Hat.

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Tranquility!

Facing the sun, I sat on the grass and meditated for while. The sun slowly warmed up my face and showered my body with energy.

On my way back to the cottage, I didn’t forget to tease the “shy grass” (mimosa pudica).

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Touch the compound leaves

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The leaves fold inward and droop, re-opening within minutes.

Hmm!! What a beautiful morning.

Migration

Finally! I have migrated my blog over to a new web hosting company that provides faster service.

No more trying to find things to do when waiting for the page to load after each click. :ohidiotsmile:

I just ~~ love it ~~ love it!!

Time to do a happy dance! :rtdance3:

Dumping da Unrealiable

Frustrated with my WordPress web hosting service.

The page loading time is inconsistent and could take up to a minute to load a page. That’s unbearable sine I am using fiber optic line!

I optimized the SQL tables and installed Super Cache. I saw improvement in page loading speed for a few hours and then back to the same inconsistent crap – driving me nuts! :ohfireevil:

After two complaints to the web hosting company and wasn’t offered the most impressive customer service, I lost my confidence in them and am ready to switch.

That’s the reality in business. There are so many web hosting options out there. If one is not up to my expectation, see ya!

So now I am looking for a reliable and fast web hosting company specializes in WordPress publishing. It needs to suppor Permalink feature (use Apache server?) and preferrable offer dedicated IP.

If you have any recommendations, please let me know. Thanks! Xie-xie. :kethanks: