Page 197 - WDT MAGAZINE PORTUGAL

Surfer at Sunset Beach on the north
shore of Oahu. Opposite: The Mokulua
islets off Kailua Beach Park are backlit
by the rising sun.

We only traveled once outside Kailua. One day backpack tours, horseback tours, mountain bike
we circumnavigated much of the island on the famous tours, bus tours, a zip line and every dinosaur
King Kamehameha Highway which follows the coast souvenir imaginable. We took a quick look around and
up to the northern town of Haleiwa then back down got right back on the road.
through the island’s pineapple plantation country We explored the botanical gardens in the
It was an eventful trip. (Do I need to say the Waimea Valley and ate fried shrimp at a food truck
weather was perfect?) We made stops at tourist traps near Kahuku. We visited the north shore surf meccas
like the Tropical Farms Macademia Nut store and the of Sunset Beach and the Pipeline, where one of the
massive Kualoa Ranch, where in 1992 they filmed locals looked out over the surf line and told us: “The
some scenes for “Jurassic Park” and have been living surf’s not too good today, the waves are too north,
off that notoriety ever since. Today the Ranch offers should be northwest.” I followed where he was

196 WINE DINE & TRAVEL MAGAZINE 2019