The week after Tsunami warning......

I am trying to show how "rough" it's been all week. This picture only shows waves way out beyond the reef.  It's really been rough, trust me.  It's been windy here in Hawaii, not much rain.  I wanted to record here, my feelings and experience after the 1946 Tidal Wave that hit the Islands.  I was two weeks from turning 7.  After living with my g'parents in Kawaihae on the Big Island for three years, my mother remarried, and sent for my brother Poaimoku and I   to live with her on Oahu.  The means of travel back then between the Islands, was by boat.  The "Hualalai" was used mainly for transporting cattle from the Parker Ranch where my g'father worked.  One week after the Tidal Wave hit the Islands, the sea was "rough".....so when the boat was transporting the cattle to O'ahu, they used a troughlike  ramp to get the cattle on the boat.  It had high sides, and I remember watching that and worrying about the cattle being herded through that onto the boat.  Well, now the few handful of passengers were told to get on the boat using the same ramp.  The ramp passengers normally used, was just a slat of wood like you would have seen in movies where a person walked the ramp from the boat to the dock, or vice versa.  So here I was, dressed in white shoes, white dress, and walking right on the very surface where the cows had just tramped, dung and all.  Eeeww!  A rough ride to O'ahu, but safe.  I was reminded of that trip all week as I watched the ocean from our apartment windows.