Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Countdown to Pearl Harbor Day - Bellows Field


If you are a regular follower, you know Bellows Beach as a military resort.  But it played a role on December 7, 1941, as the Japanese bombed the airfield enroute to Pearl Harbor.


Today, Bellows AFS serves as a training facility and military resort.   The runway was replaced by the golf range.  Last year, the staff found unexploded ordnance; the range has been closed since then.   


I stayed in a cabin while the scouts camped in tents!


I was fortunate to have a kai (ocean) view.


Imagine this tranquility at 8 am in the morning being disrupted by a surprise attack.


But peace has returned to Bellows.   Would you stay in the tent or the cabin?  One randomly selected commenter from this week's blogs wins a book choice form my convention stash. This giveaway is open to all readers. Comments are open through Saturday, December 8, 10 pm in Hawaii. I'll post the winner on Sunday, December 9, on SOS Aloha.

Mahalo,

Kim in Hawaii

My keiki waiting for the waves


16 comments:

  1. What wonderful scenery - it all seems so serene at least for now.

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  2. So great pics, rainbows
    Kimh

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  3. I love the rainbow pic especially! Great photos!

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  4. We saw a lot of rainbows in Hawaii.

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  5. I love the pictures, I would stay in a cabin as the idea of a tent does not sit well. Thanks for the lovely giveaway and happy holidays.

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  6. How lucky you are to experience all these beautiful views. I'm with Desere, I would stay in a cabin too. I'm not one to sleep in a tent, with God only knows what crawling around. A cabin is also "pushing it" with me. I like my home comforts too much.

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  7. So beautiful! Hard to imagine it as a scene of such violence. Mahalo, Kim. (No need to enter me in the drawing.)

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  8. I will stay in cabin, love the pic especially the rainbow pic and sunset :)

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  9. I'd probably stay in the cabin, though maybe one night in the tent.

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  10. The pictures are so peaceful. Love them

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  11. Gorgeous pictures - especially the rainbow. I would take the cabin. Too old for tents.

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  12. Hi Kim

    I love your pictures! None of the campgrounds we've stayed in have ever looked like this!

    We used to go camping in an old used tent trailer and that's the closest I ever want to get to a tent - give me the cabin!

    My younger son, on the other hand, takes his wife and my grandchildren camping in a tent and then they climb the mountain rails with the youngest in a back pack!

    At least I used o have a stove in the tent-trailer powered by propane - they cook over a camp fire - not exactly my idea of relaxing.

    No mater how you go camping it's still afun time with the family -with no electronic distractions! (We used to go campint pre-cell phones so no phone calls as well!

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  13. Probably the cabin, I'm not a real tent type person. lol

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  14. Would definitely pick the cabin :) Also very beautiful pictures of the view you had there.

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