Another Spring, Another Visit To The Hale Koa

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​Another Spring, Another Visit To The Hale Koa

...Continued from previous post:        
     Besides a beautiful public park and beach in Waikiki, Fort DeRussy is also home to the U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii, which is free to the public,

...and the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies.

     Next to the park and also part of Fort DeRussy is the Hale Koa, the hotel where we stayed, which offers lodgings to active duty members of the military as well as to military retirees (see previous post).

     One enters the Hale Koa through a vast, open-air lobby, 

...that overlooks Honolulu on one side,

...and on the other side a courtyard planted with tropical flora and fauna , 

...in the center of which is a massive and well-loved Indian Banyan tree named Gus,

​...that, snap as many times  as I might, I can never quite get a photograph of that captures its glory.

     At night the lobby and the courtyard are lit up with a magical glow,

...as was the view from our room.     

     
​           The courtyard opens into a botanical garden,

...within which is a secluded pool.

      On other side of the garden is Happy's, 

...the Barefoot Bar,

...an aquatics complex on the beach with an infinity pool and children's area,

...a beach-side snack bar.

...and the path that leads to Waikiki beach, this section of which is also technically military property, but also public property. In fact, all beaches in Hawaii are public property.

      Which is as it should be.

...to be  continued.