Feb 19

Sunday, February 19

6:00 am Honolulu, Hawaii

The temperature is +21 °C with a high of +26 °C forecast, light rain.


3:00 PM Life

We walked along the shoreline to the major shopping mall in Honolulu.

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I bought 2 books at Barnes & Noble:

     * Tao Te Ching (2002) by trans. R. A Dale

     * A Book of Abstract Algebra (1990) by Charles C. Pinter.


4:00 PM Birding

While on our walk we saw the following new birds: 

  • White Tern (lifer)
  • Chestnut Mannikin (lifer)
  • Black-headed Night Heron
  • Mallard
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White Tern

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3 Chestnut Mannikins plus a Zebra Dove

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Black-crowned Night-Heron

plus the regulars: 

  • Java Sparrow
  • Red-vented Bulbul
  • Common Myna
  • Common Waxbill
  • Pacific Golden Plover
  • Spotted Dove
  • Zebra Dove
  • Red-crested Cardinal
  • Yellow-fronted Canary.


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2 Java Sparrows


5:30 PM Geocaching

I went geocaching in the afternoon and found 2 caches:

     * GC1TC6X - Geckos in Paradise - Kamuela Anakala

     * GC6F0C - Life is But a Dream

These were my first two caches in the state of Hawaii. The first one was also the furthest west (from the Prime Meridian) of all the caches that I have found: W 157° 49.401. Keep in mind that the maximum possible is W180°. I have now found caches in 9 different states - not too impressive, but one more than I had before.


© Dale Burnett 2012