Hawaii - Day 13, Oahu

When we woke up on Tuesday we were relieved that it seemed like Chris was back to normal.  He'd slept all the way through the night so we thought we were ok to continue with our plans to explore Oahu.  We picked up a hire car then headed east around the island.

We stopped first at Makapuu Point and walked the 30-40 minutes up to the top for some great views, then back down again.

Our next stop was Byodo-in-Temple. This is a replica of the temple of the same name in Japan.

After stopping at the temple we continued driving towards the North shore. The area is famous especially in the winter for it's huge waves, this is where all the surfing competitions are held. The traffic was really busy and the sides of the roads were lined with parked surfer's trucks. We stopped in Hale'iwa for a look around the shops and some lunch.

Our final stop for our journey around Oahu was the Dole plantation.

On our way back into Honolulu the traffic on the interstate suddenly ground to a halt and we sat there not moving an inch for about an hour. It turned out that President Obama who had just spent the last couple of weeks in Oahu was leaving so they decided to shut the road down! When we had flown back into Honolulu we had seen Air Force One parked up. Eventually things started moving again and we were able to get back to Honolulu to give back our hire car.