Views from the Top (Koko Head part 4)
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canyonwalkerHawaii April Travelog #15
Hawaii Kai, Oahu - Mon, 11 Apr, 2022, 12pm
Climbing the Koko Head Tramline trail has been about more than killing our legs and enjoying the views on the way up. It's about enjoying the views from the top. Those include being able to see over the other side of the mountain.
Koko Head is the high part of the rim around Koko Crater. The view down over the crater and to the beaches behind is phenomenal.
Sometimes there's a shot you want but other people are in it. You can get mad about it, you can wait it out, or you can make them part of the picture.
Or Option (D) is find another spot that's just as good.
From atop Koko Head we could see in all directions. Here's a telephoto shot looking back toward Waikiki. On the left is the Diamond Head crater, which we hiked to the top of on our trip in December. To the right are the skyscraper hotels and residential towers of Waikiki.
Update: You know what comes next? It's like going downhill on a rollercoaster... without the rollercoaster!
Hawaii Kai, Oahu - Mon, 11 Apr, 2022, 12pm
Climbing the Koko Head Tramline trail has been about more than killing our legs and enjoying the views on the way up. It's about enjoying the views from the top. Those include being able to see over the other side of the mountain.
Koko Head is the high part of the rim around Koko Crater. The view down over the crater and to the beaches behind is phenomenal.
Sometimes there's a shot you want but other people are in it. You can get mad about it, you can wait it out, or you can make them part of the picture.
Or Option (D) is find another spot that's just as good.
From atop Koko Head we could see in all directions. Here's a telephoto shot looking back toward Waikiki. On the left is the Diamond Head crater, which we hiked to the top of on our trip in December. To the right are the skyscraper hotels and residential towers of Waikiki.
Update: You know what comes next? It's like going downhill on a rollercoaster... without the rollercoaster!
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Date: 2022-04-15 12:54 pm (UTC)I've been enjoying the pictures - Hawaii is so gorgeous! My wife used to have a December conference there every 5 years, a "both sides of the Pacific" biochemistry thing, where'd we drop the kids off with the grandparents and go, just the two of us. Sadly, Covid has made it virtual even before we could discuss whether the kids were old enough to come with.
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Date: 2022-04-15 11:36 pm (UTC)There's an amusing little dynamic, BTW, in how conference sponsors choose their locations.... If they're small and they want people to attend, to build up their membership and prestige, they plan conferences with desirable locations and times. Like Hawaii anytime, or Florida in the winter, or California's wine country in the summer.
This plays to the dynamic on the other side, which is that many professionals only have time and budget to attend 1, maybe 2, conferences per year. As one customer told me when my employer (years ago) had its annual conference in San Jose, "There's no way I'm spending my one ticket for the year on San Jose. Las Vegas is the minimum."
OTOH, when organizations have burgeoning membership and ample crowds at conferences, they tend to solve for cost rather than attractiveness. Those are the conferences in Orlando in the summer, New Orleans in the summer, Las Vegas in the summer, Chicago in on Thanksgiving weekend, etc. Sadly those are all places & times I've had major conferences in my industries.