Aloha!
Welcome to a PEACEFUL Waikiki
This kitty girl is glad it's all over!
We're gonna miss these guys, though. They did a great job!
Took this picture from my boat. CLOSE!
Lots of supervisors watched the big jobalong with Kitty.
Here's our friend from the top photo earning his bonus!
My boat felt im-MAST-ulated!
Um, that's my car. . . guys?
I think that the jackhammering was the worst.
Here's our friend from the top photo earning his bonus!
My boat felt im-MAST-ulated!
Um, that's my car. . . guys?
I think that the jackhammering was the worst.
Or was it the giant crane looming above?
I hated the dust, the fence, the diesel fumes and backup beepers.
But I was impressed with the workers in their fluorescent shirts:
rigging, pulling, riding the work barge that cowboy-ed just off my stern, sending vibrations through the hull and up my spine.
That's about the time the leaking began: http://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/2009/03/water-week.html
I'm just saying. . .
It was exciting when the steam shovel aboard the work barge grappled heavy chunks of dismantled cement pier out of the water, handing them over to the tower crane that lifted them high and dry to shore-side trucks.
Did I mention the diesel fumes?
Did I mention that all his was happening (daily and for months)
seeming inches from my home, my office, my sanctuary, my boat?!
All in all I'm bloody delighted to see this circus' final act.
Today a comic parade of officials (send in the clowns!)
came to bless the beautiful new dock.
Soon, there will be more fellow boaters walking and parking here.
The lazy harbor community will return to Normal
and to Quiet.
The bustle and pizazz of Waikiki glitters across the sheltered channel
as sea & sky hold sway
here at the border of `Aina (land) and ke Kai (the sea).
Just another day
when you live (as they used to say)
at the edge of Waikiki.
A L O H A! Cloudia
Good onya for enduring the ordeal.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the return to blessed quiet.
The boat may have felt emastulated for a time but if I were a betting man I would go with the last, I never saw a crane that could hold a sail.
ReplyDeleteAhhhh quiet is a bliss filled moment.
wow! Glad they are done! Back to your regularly scheduled peace and quiet.
ReplyDeleteI hope you get some great new neighbors and your peace will be long-lived.
ReplyDeleteAloha is such a wonderful word. Aloha Cloudia!
Thank goodness its over and done ...
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the peace and quiet while you can Cloudia - the tourist season will soon be here.
ReplyDeleteAt least it wasn't the circus out of Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked this way comes."
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had some "interesting times" with the work crews around. Glad they're packed up and gone.
ReplyDeleteYou must be looking forward to the peace. :)
ReplyDeleteBut I have to admit, cranes are awesome.
ReplyDeleteYes, I think a garden spiral would fit nicely into your comfort spiral philosophy. :)
Well that's certainly good news! That definitely would have gotten really old, really quick.
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Shall I rent a spot in the new slips? Do I have to join the Navy? DrumMajor
ReplyDeleteCloudia, the S-B had a nice spread about the new dock. Looks like the crew will be back later for more work over there.
ReplyDeleteOne of them worked in the water. I sometimes forget hard works made in the place I cannot see.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the peace and quiet!
ReplyDeleteI'm happy for you Cloudia. The light at the end of the tunnel, or in this case at the end of the new dock.
ReplyDeleteThat was interesting - a slightly different take on things.
ReplyDeleteI feel for you. I spend a lot of time on construction sites and the noises begin to wear on you after awhile.
ReplyDeleteGood thing the work is done. Must be a lot of fun living on a boat.
ReplyDeleteThank YOU friends!!
ReplyDeleteAloha
cool shots
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