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Night-blooming cereus is the common name of a large number of flowering ceroid cacti that bloom at night. The flowers are short lived, and some of these species, such as Selenicereus grandiflorus, bloom only once a year, for a single night. Other names for one or more cacti with this habit are Princess of the Night, Honolulu Queen, Christ in the Manger, Dama de Noche and Queen of the Night.
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We spent one day in Honolulu. It was January 20 and we attended a breakfast with a bunch of joyous Hawaiians watching and celebrating the inauguration of Barack Obama. This was the view just outside the restaurant.
With extra time before our flight home, we took a 2 hour Trolley Tour of Honolulu. Well worth it.
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The flower in the image is likely a hot pink ginger, also known as red ginger or Alpinia purpurata.
It is a tropical plant native to the Malay Peninsula and the southwest Pacific islands.
The prominent, brightly colored part that looks like a flower is actually a collection of modified leaves called bracts.
The true flowers are small and white, found at the tips of these bracts.
This plant is popular as an ornamental addition to gardens and is often used for cut flower arrangements due to its long-lasting blooms.
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Alpinia purpurata, commonly referred to as red ginger, ostrich plume and pink cone ginger, is a ginger native to Maluku and the southwest Pacific islands. In typical ginger fashion, A. purpurata is a rhizomatous plant, spreading underground in a horizontal growth habit, sending feeder roots downwards into the substrate and sprouting leafy vertical stems from nodes located along the rhizome. As its common name implies, red ginger blooms with showy inflorescences on long, bright magenta- to red-hued bracts; while they appear to be a blossom, bracts are in fact modified leaves that contain the plant's actual flowers. Bracts are a common feature of many botanical genera (such as Euphorbia sp. or the Araceae family), having evolved to protect and resemble the flowers and appeal to pollinators. The actual flower "parts" (pollen, pistil, stamen, etc.) are located inside, often accessed by crawling insects like ants or beetles.
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Kulamanu, built in 1946, was originally named Delaware Belle. She was subsequently renamed Hudson Belle and George Washington.** As George Washington, the Wilson Line operated her as a river cruise vessel on the Potomac River.
Robert J. Halcro, the owner of Windjammer Cruises, bought the George Washington. The ship’s name was officially changed in March 1980 to Rella Mae (in honor of Mr. Halcro’s mother). Four steel masts and a bowsprit were added to the ship at a shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia before she sailed for Hawai‘i via the Panama Canal and Los Angeles.
Rella Mae arrived in Honolulu Harbor on Sunday, 13 July 1980 and began operations as a dinner cruise ship in August.
Kulamanu, which was tied up on the Diamond Head side of Pier 7, was towed out of the harbor on Thursday, 20 June 2019. She was taken to Kalaeloa Barbers Point Harbor, where work will be done to prepare her for disposal at sea
Yellow-billed Cardinal Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Another shot taken from the top of Diamond Head overlooking the city skyline of Honolulu.
The pink building in the centre is The Royal Hawaiian which opened in 1927 and was one of the first hotels established in Waikiki.
The beautiful sunset from the top floor of the Hilton Rainbow Tower in Honolulu, Hawaii. Waikiki Beach is to the left.
The water in Honolulu, Hawaii, is incredibly clear and blue. When I looked down in the water from the seawall, there were dozens of very colorful tropical fish swimming around. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a good angle for a photo. I did manage to get a pretty good angle for the harbor though.
“The Aloha Tower is a retired lighthouse that is considered one of the landmarks of the state of Hawaii in the United States. Opened on September 11, 1926, at a cost of $160,000 ($2,805,206 in 2024), the Aloha Tower is located at Pier 9 of Honolulu Harbor. It has been, and continues to be, a guiding beacon welcoming vessels to the City and County of Honolulu. Just as the Statue of Liberty greeted hundreds of thousands of immigrants each year to New York City, the Aloha Tower greeted hundreds of thousands of immigrants to Honolulu. At 10 stories and 56 m of height topped with 12 m of flag mast, for four decades the Aloha Tower was the tallest structure in Hawaii. It was built in the Hawaiian Gothic architectural style.”
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Built in 1961, this modernist high-rise apartment building was designed by Wimberly & Cook. The building features side facades with large expanses of blank concrete at the ends, with a geometric hexagonal concrete screen wall divided into three segments in the center, with the facade facing Kalakaua Avenue featuring a tall rectangular concrete “frame” running from the second floor up to the roof, within which are staggered balconies, screen walls at the second floor, large windows, and doors in pairs on each floor, with the facade facing the ocean featuring balconies extending the entire width of the building. The building is one of several large residential buildings constructed at the base of Diamond Head between the late 1950s and late 1960s, which dramatically altered the appearance of this area of Honolulu.