Another slow day for us. We didn't leave the house until well after noon. We planned to drive up Tantalus mountain and do some hiking, but the clouds that have been sitting on the Ko'olau Range for the past few days were still there, providing foggy and drizzly conditions in the higher elevations of the drive. We opted a quick view of Honolulu from the overlook part way up, then drove into the Punchbowl Crater to visit at the National Cemetery of the Pacific.
The view from the overlook towards Honolulu and the airport.
View towards Diamond Head and Waikiki
What a somber and peaceful place. A smaller sibling to Diamond Head, both of which are cinder cone volcanoes that erupted quite a bit after Oahu formed, it's smack dab above the historic center of Honolulu. As you drive through the city, it's just a dry prominence looming just above the city. But once you drive into it, you're confronted by graves and memorials from wars the US fought in the Pacific, set amid groves of tropical trees.
The Memorial includes the names of almost 29,000 service personnel who were missing in action.
At the edge of the crater you realize you're in an extinct volcano.
But the nearly flat bottom of the crater is green and isolated from the busy Honolulu metropolis.
Chinese Banyan trees line the road leading to the memorial.
Monkeypod trees fill the bowl.
My father served in the Pacific in WWII, so this memorial block had special meaning for me.
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