Super Ferry

Sunday afternnon after a bike ride down to the North shore Marianne and I met Mark and Deb downtown for a ride on the Hawaii Superferry. This company wants to start a service between the islands were you could take your car with you instead of flying and renting a car. They've been planning this with the state for 3 years but in a typical Hawaii scenario the first time it tried to pull into Kauai a small bunch of anti-everything protesters jumped in the water to keep it from docking. Now it's tied up in the courts and legislature whether it's going to start up or not. The protestors have a hundred lame reasons why they don't want it but they're mostly a subterfuge for just being against something. The same kinds of bored warriors howled about building the H3 over the Pali years ago but now they happily drive on it everyday. I have sent my last check ever to the Sierra club which has jumped on this idiotic bandwagon.

The ship is pretty amazing. It's totally manueverable,doesn't need tugs, lightweight, big and fast. You could water ski behind it. We just went out for a cruise along the coast were I took these pictures of Honolulu and some cruise ships.