Surfing is the big thing at Waikiki, any month of the year, and is indulged in with keen enjoyment by practically every visitor in the islands except babes in arms and cripples. A volume might be devoted to Waikiki alone; Waikiki drowsing ’neath the palms in the shadow of grim, beautiful old Diamond Head; Waikiki with its ‘““Queen’s” and “Canoe” surf and its army of bronzed and stalwart surf-riders; Waikiki fronds. But after all with its happy, sturdy urchins frolicking on its sands; Waikiki with its soft nights when the Southern Cross swings low and love is young beneath the palm only the beginning. All Hawaii Let us then to a glimpse of it. The island of Oahu on which Waikiki is lies beyond. Honolulu is situated is, like all of Hawaii, mountainous. The city itself extends well back into the mountains, but far above and beyond the highest of the mountain cottages rise cool green: slopes and lofty peaks. Into: “these” mountains wind roads and trails, all of them worth not one but many visits. One of these roads leads out through picturesque Nuuanu Valley, up to the Pali with its world-famed panorama, apple fields and beaches, and so on skirting the islagd. This drive of some ninety miles is one of the famous sight-seeing jaunts in Hawaii, but after having been done once in the usual way it should be repeated leisurely, CO =— Re ~~ WM LOS OF without monotony, CO, oy COURTESY OQ at WAIKIKI, Q and roadside stops for swims, surt-fishing expeditions or chats with the ever-cheery and genial Hawaiians. Taken in this way, that one driv e may literally occupy weeks of one’s time S.S. nad = with side-excursions up tempting canyons, ANGELES Q — Re NS down the face of a cliff to the pine- — LP]