Sunday, April 29, 2012

12-04-28 OPMUG Spam Jam Waikiki

"Spam Jam" where else but Hawaii...the Spam capitol of the United States.  Only Saipan eats more Spam per capita than Hawaii.  We love our canned, processed meat so much that we have a block party every year to celebrate Spam.

Kalakaua was blocked and traffic rerouted the entire length of the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center.  It was crowded, hot and lots of Fun!  There were two stages at opposite ends with bands playing and the crowd swaying and dancing along.

In between on both sided of the avenue you could but Spam food creations, Spam trinkets, hats & tshirts.  And a whole assortment of products made by vendors that paid a fee for access to the throngs of people gathered to pay homage to this WWII era MRE / K ration.


I have a fascination with tattoos and was so happy when this young lady agreed to let me photograph her tattoo.


I met this lady feeding the fish and birds off of a jetty.  Cool tattoo, yeah.

She's got the sparrows trained to take the bread from her out stretched hand.

Our Zoo entrance.

The Moana Surfrider Hotel

Spam & Egg sandwich w/ nori

Pretty cool, huh.

There was a pretty good swell off Waikiki  Beach.


Almost packed it up and walked away.  It took a while for the sky to light up.


Waikiki panorama up to the Kapahulu jetty.

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