beautiful and sad: Waikiki Beach Quarantined Drone Flyover

[DannyTS]

 

[DaveNV]

Never seen it so empty.

Dave

 

[artringwald]

It's almost too sad to watch.

 

[klpca]

I'll be sharing it with my dad. He grew up there in the 1940's/1950's and I'm sure that it will bring back some wonderful memories. He will love seeing it without tourists because that's what he remembers. The hotels won't look familiar though.

 

[amycurl]

In the beginning of the video, does anyone know what the story is on the old stadium/enclosed pool area?

 

[alwysonvac]

I believe it’s the Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial.

Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

From https://historichawaii.org/2017/01/16/act-now-to-save-the-waikiki-war-memorial-natatorium/

From https://www.facebook.com/natatorium/

 

[holdaer]

My first thought after watching this video, is that this would be a good time to begin a beach reconstruction project to address the erosion. I can see this as being an 'essential' project for saving Waikiki.

 

[amycurl]

Thank you for the links! I do hope they restore--that could be such a neat public amenity and use for swimming competitions.

 

[oneohana]

It is almost as bad when they had the tsumani warning after the Chile earthquake. The streets were completely empty.

 

[artringwald]

It's not my photo, but this is what you'd expect Waikiki to look like. It's also one of the reasons we'd rather go to Kauai.

 

[DannyTS]

It's not my photo, but this is what you'd expect Waikiki to look like. It's also one of the reasons we'd rather go to Kauai.

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I see a couple of spots where I would love to put my towel

 

[pedro47]

Wow, it’s looks beautiful from that drone. I have never been to the Big Island .
My very first trip have been cancelled because of the coronavirus.

 

[artringwald]

On our first trip to Kauai in 1986, we stayed at the Poipu Beach Hotel. Here's a stock photo of it, before it was destroyed by hurricane Iniki in 1992. It looks like they were practicing social distancing way back then. The hotel was stripped to the framing, completely remodeled, and reopened in 2009 as the very upscale Koʻa Kea Hotel.

 

[artringwald]

They're issuing tickets to beach sunbathers in Kauai.

https://www.thegardenisland.com/2020/04/09/hawaii-news/ticketed-for-sunbathing/