Tales of the South Pacific - Honolulu Day 3

Cruise Day 11

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Today is the third and last day of our visit to Honolulu.  We have, as the song says, "nothing to do and all day to do it" so there won’t be a whole lot to write about.

We spent the first part of our morning once again relaxing and reading out on the balcony.  I did come in for a while and did some online banking and then updated the blog.

After lunch, Val went back out on the balcony, and I downloaded all the pictures we had taken with our phones and cameras.  While I was doing this Val called me out on the balcony to show me a large, odd-looking ship that was leaving the harbor.  It was called the European Highway, and it turned out to be a car carrier that was large enough to carry almost 5,000 cars.  The European Highway was built in 1999 and at the time was one of the largest in the world, but now newer ships can carry up to 9,000 cars.  We watched it lumber out of the harbor into open seas where it’s headed to Mexico.

Val was relaxing on the balcony when she noticed an odd looking ship leaving the harbor.

It was called the European Highway and was a large car carrier that could transport up to 5,000 autos.

I finished downloading the pictures, backed everything up and then took my place out on the balcony (where it’s a beautiful day by the way) until it was time for trivia.  Donna was back tonight so we had a full team at trivia, but we did even worse than usual.  We did have a good time though and stayed around quite a while afterwards and had a good conversation.

After we returned to the room, we went out on the balcony for the sail away and watched a very nice sunset.  We relaxed until dinner and it was particularly good tonight.  Afterward, we returned to our room and saw there was a very nice moonrise, so we watched that for a while, but we had to get to bed early as we have an early excursion tomorrow and have to get up at six.

We sailed out away from Honolulu and on to our next port.

It looked like it was going to be a nice sunset.