What is a glass bottom boat ride like in Honolulu? — featuring TheDailyWoo

0:00 welcome everyone Adam the woo here as the recording of the Sunday December 15th 2024 piping hot caffeinated beverages I have just procured over there from the refillable station this refillable cup has coming handy purchased it the first day I'm here still on a family vacation my mom my dad my sister her husband

0:23 we're all here and we are going to Traverse Southward down to Honolulu and Wy ke today an area that I have not really been to yet while being here in aahu on this trip and last year's trip in September with my mom this trip a few more people we're going to be going out onto the water on a glass bottom boat

0:45 and possibly some y ke key stuff just going to see where the day leads this week is pretty impromptu and based around family things inviting you to join me shall you that is definitely an octopus head right there squid tentacles and an octopus head sticking up out of that also I have to think I'm going to

1:09 get my big brimmed hat cuz uh the sun's probably going to be pretty permeating out there on the ocean and uh dragonfly right there see the big eyes and the wings of the dragonfly hidden in the rocks look at that there's a double ray right there look at that or manta ray I should say right there there in the

1:31 middle Stingray looks like it's going to be a beautiful day to go out on the ocean a little overcast might get I don't know if there going to be precipitation or not but there are some clouds there that are a little darker but for the most part pretty clear got my hat we're going to head on over to

1:52 Honolulu and white Kiki I love down here the koi pond that's just right below our room look at all this koi down there swimming around koi fish also the temperature in white Ki is going to be 77° going to get it to about 79 77 right now clear skies looks like those clouds are going to burn off a

2:16 little bit highest 79 W today okay made the commute to Honolulu Wy key area Honolulu got a little public parking over here going to to the glass bottom boat tour take a look at this choy's monster June 10th 1970 Captain Cornelius Choy caught the world's largest Marlin on a rot and re from this Harbor right

2:42 here Pacific Blue Marlin weighed in at 100 1, 85 lb all right I got a little had my coffee earlier now after the commute down here I got a little Hawaiian Sun strawberry guava nectar not 12 oz 11 1/2 o there's all kind of different things here at the harbor really

3:10 good strawberry guava nectar all right it is now time to check in and do the tour Haw glass bottom boat tour it's an anchor right there but almost kind of looks like a pterodactyl oh here's the glass bottom boat coconut this is the weather forecast if this coconut is wet it's raining if it's

3:33 moving it's windy if it's hot it's sunny and if it's cool it's cloudy and if it's completely gone make sure you take shelter heading over here this is what we're getting on this look at this little Christmas tree right here as well that says Don Ho there it is in the in the in real life there is a little Diggy

3:52 right real quick though introduce myself my name is Lorenzo one of the captains here also working as Captain Jim who's by that kiosk he's going to be joining us so Jim Lorenzo we're here for you guys for the 1 hour tour those Z bears in there right here um we also do have a orange life ring up in the front of the

4:10 boat that's there you know just in case if you somehow fall overboard that does happen today we'll toss you the life frame get out into the ocean you know the visibility will start to clear up it is a little bumpy out there a little windy so you know just a heads up if wearing hats or glasses just make sure

4:25 it's nice and secure on your head I know you guys probably noticed the ladders in the viewing ports those ladders are just there for the captain and crew to clean the glass and grab things if they fall down there so please do not climb down okay also on my left and right are two coolers these coolers actually have

4:40 water in them they come in these little plastic clups they're complimentary if you guys are thirsty all right heading out of the port heading out the harbor this is a 1hour tour not a 3-hour tour if it was a 3-hour tour I'd be a little bit worried we can't see anything yet we have to get outside open ocean and

4:58 that's when the visib to clear up there two captives on this boat um a little bit about the spot that we're at does anyone know the name of this Harbor no no it's called kallo Basin so kallo translates to the calling so people were called here you know uh the reason why they were all called

5:18 there this this spot used to be a fishing Harbor so back in the day all the books were fishing vessels the Searcher was on Lost 2000 and take AO up on the island as you can see that's the work of Hollywood the boat spine and then the one next to it is called the Golden Girl which was on

5:38 Hawaii 5 you guys watch the last season of you know the new series that was on that show you guys look in between the two boats you guys see that tax you remember that boat from I don't you see the BL Mar course I never saw law though floing between the two boat you would know more than I no some of you guys do

5:57 uh it's actually a world record Blue Marlin it was caught by one of the captains here in the harbor over 1,800 lb Big Fish you guys can go check it out after the tour you didn't have a chance that is where we're going to be towards today that and we'll be sing in some shallow water for the first half of the

6:15 T so you way this is awesome enjo the music and we'll head out water yeah check take a look at that you see the waves crashing in there all the Surfers out on the water lot of surfers out there we're going past booby number four right here I see the four on the side of

6:44 that there's a look at all look at that right there look at all the diving all right the one guy Captain Jim said that right here is the opening of Gilligan Island this is the harbor they pulled out of we went down into the all way Harbor right over here where the G for the 3our tour they came out through

7:05 this harb that's so cool that's why we keep our tours to an hour We're Going toing you guys home I was just saying um and right now we were all behind us is all of Moana okay we are entering into wakey key right in front of us this is all wakey key we have the Hilton Hawaiian Village that rainbow

7:24 Tower are you guys here on Friday you get a chance to see the fireworks us right there so every Friday on Friday night we of jump back on the mic and tell you lot at the front right here bopping up and down like that turtle cany turtle Canyons Turtles everywhere that's right there's a bunch of sharks out

7:46 here of course yeah there's a bunch of turtles that come out here he's throwing the food out we got some fish on the side Captain Jim is feeding some of the fish oh some algae pellets if you guys want to see some of the fish come over to the right side of the boat there that darker looking fish

8:01 that is called a black trigger fish it is a cousin store state fish you guys ever heard of the state fish it translates to the fish with a Sout like a pig so they kind of have like a pig like face and you take them out of the water they can grunt sounds like a pig snorting the turt get their sh like

8:25 piranas fish come here for a nice meal talking about turtles can you guys see these swimmers in the water right um between these these two boats some there's a turtle right there on the surface there a turtle yeah see that last SNK to the left look behind them right by that gray boat by the engines

8:43 you see the brown brown shell on the surface a mess load of fish right down in there you can see them really well how CLE water so clear yeah down yeah there's a big old fish down here so easy to see them too usually you can't see this fish this clear clear it's like looking in a fish tank but

9:04 you're really just looking in the ocean Turtle it's h h o n u so can you say that H that's how you say turtle and H you know what it's called when you see a honu for the very first time in Hy it's called a whole new experience oh whole new experience look at this they're swimming yeah

9:30 I know they're swimming they're fish but I just got excited cuz I saw them going over the little lap of the water there just amazing aing tour or scuba tour this is more than you ever SE fish this like in the water this visible like in an oceanol about this spot where the people are swimming it's only about 15 to 20 ft

9:49 right here pretty shallow for being this far out off the you off the shoreline University of Hawai East Campus is located um couple different High School are up there Mano in Hawai it means deep so that you know Valley goes very deep and while we were circling around out here saw a

10:07 turtle right there Turtle over in the water just kind of like nestling around he kind of he uh like making itself known everyone's getting pictures and getting a little video of and he went under he submerged himself live here all right so you know what Wii means it means expensive

10:29 it's actually a two-part word Wy key if you break it up into two words the First Hawaiian word is v w a i v in the Hawaii language means fresh water like drinking water uh and then Kiki means spouting so whyi is fresh water spouting or fresh water Springs what the Hawaiians did is

10:48 they utilized all that fresh water so this area before it was all hotels used to be all Farmland uh and they grew a very special crop they grew a bunch of different crops but the most important one to the ha was U KO terot if you guys ever heard of PO let me get out BL um how they make

11:09 the point and now heading out even deeper away from Wy ke farther away from the shoreline I have never in real life granted I think can I get an up close view but never seen a sub rain submerging itself out on the water while I witnessed it with my own eyes I just

11:35 saw that as we're cruising along here down in this cooler they have complimentary water jungle rain 100% Hawaiian purified drinking water it comes to this little cup you peel it back sip away Dolphins out here too hard to see but they're like in front of that other boat right there kind of swimming

11:54 around will do spin and flips out of the water haven't got too close to right now they're actually sleep so they sleep during the day they're nocturnal head back in funny thing is we never even really like saw anything through the glass bottom section but this ended up being a lot a lot better than I thought

12:10 it was I thought we were going to be like on a pontoon type of boat and just looking down for a but we saw some great sites shake and bake yeah tell day good night anybody uh but yeah you guys enjoy the rest of your day a lot of good places to eat around here I'll give you guys some spots since

12:27 you know we got some boats kind of in our way to because a few minutes get uh parked but uh see all these cars are parked on the left uh where all the cars are parked by those tires against the wall but right behind those cars are a bunch of umbrellas there's a bunch of food trucks over there if you guys want

12:43 to grab some some good uh lunch a lot of good options over there they have tacos they have Thai food they have aai balls pretty much anything you can think of they got right there uh if you guys want to go check out a cool shopping center it's about a 10minute walk to our left and it's about a 2-minute drivve view of

13:00 a car uh but this highrise you guys can see with the white roof the blue Windows the second one over um right in Hawaii we don't really like to say goodbye so I'm going to teach you guys a little Hawaiian phrase it's something we say as we part ways so instead of saying goodbye you guys can say a Hy

13:20 ho say it all together a Hy ho that means until we meet again so instead of saying goodbye you can see that as you guys check out of your hotels or you know people who helped you at the restaurant just tell them a ho until we meet again so uh you guys enjoy the rest of your day save travels from Jim myself

13:40 Lorenzo until we meet again everyone on ho and Aloha going back to the car look these pigeons down here pigeons I don't fright nobody there is an event going on over here so parking is very difficult to find so my dad jumped behind the wheel we all jumped out he's going to circle

14:04 around the block this building right here was the site of a historic satellite live event with Elvis Presley king of rock and roll performing right in here his Aloha from Hawaii special took place right here in fact King statue is right here right here man this is so cool American Trilogy performed

14:29 inside this building Dixie Land probably my favorite live moment of Elvis ever was right inside there inside there stand oh he is standing on a record right there the world's first satellite TV concert January 14th 1973 about a year and a half before I

14:54 was born Supreme Talent humil sincere humility Elvis Presley made this gift to the world thank you thank you very much people of TV Land right there on the on the record yeah that is cool jumpsuit on one of the most iconic outfits he

15:20 ever wore right here in Hawaii pretty cool pretty dang cool it's changed name since Elvis performed here but this is the arena definely see how old this place is on to wyi Beach parking down here was

15:46 really quite a experience parked a ways away now walking over here this famous sculpture trying to find Dukes but it's a little it's harder to find than we were thinking we came down here to eat a Dukes restaurant and Barefoot bar and Wy

16:13 key this guy's got a lot of holding a lot of lays right there got lays At His Feet kind of silhouetted out by the sun let me go over here and show this do Duke POA raised in white Kiki Duke was a full-blooded Hawaiian who symbolized Hawaii to millions of

16:41 people there he [Music] is all right we're going to continue on see if we can find this Dukes I was drive when I was driving I was driving the car this way didn't see it from the street then we found parking over here in a parking structure thought we'd walk up go this way around to find Dukes but didn't see

17:05 it that direction so we're going to head down this way and see if we can fight a side all right evidently if you go over here to the Outrigger blue note Hawaii is where entrance into Dukes a little more difficult to find than I thought I thought it was just going to be right off the main road but

17:29 you got to got to go on a little bit of a mission to find it this says Duke's Canoe Club I didn't know it was called the Canoe Club but I guess they have a Canoe Club as well here at the Outrigger just asked us the front and they said this is the Dukes we got Duke's Surf Shop I asked if

17:48 there was another Duke somewhere around they said nope this is the Dukes so we're now heading over to Dukes there's the plates right there Dukes we found it all right I am shocked as busy as it is on white Kiki Beach there was only a 5 minute wait they said so we're waiting here in the lobby evidently this is Duke

18:12 right there there's a come on a canoe and here's a photo of Duke right here as well with the shades on yeah I was kind of surprised I was thinking there's going to be like a 45 minute hour wait in fact 5 minute wait they said there you go Dukes Honolulu y Ki Love the theming through here

18:40 obviously got a canoe dangling from the roof a row of photos here wow this is awesome in here they asked if you want to sit outside which is very very sunny or inside where it's shaded we opted for the inside you walk outside it's very very sunny but they do have a little bit of an Overlook where you can go out and

19:05 look at the beach here in y ke so you got y keiki Beach all along there and this little corner is dukes nice love the fatch roofs and look down here open all open air so you got birds all in here enjoying their enjoying their meal as well but I love the theming in here I love like the the thatch Style I almost

19:29 said Hawaiian style but I'm in Hawaii so that makes sense oh these guys seriously got laid table is ready here's Duke right here he's got all the lays on him as well yeah it was only a f minute wait I am just amazed how quickly is it is busy out on the beach very very

19:55 busy they must have a buffet here this is pretty nice again look Birds everywhere Birds Hitchcock would beow this is kind of nice they got a fullon uh full-on lunch buffet over here you got the salads all the things for said salads then you got some sort of

20:20 broccoli mix there pasta salad potato salad and over here you got the dips and things oh no you got Pokey look at this they got a some pokei some AI tuna these birds are living the life I don't know if they're living the light but they're just all they're in here kind of looking at the menu here so

20:46 the buffet is $31 thinking maybe just getting the buffet just getting a nice mixture of everything up there because once you add in all the other prices for different things I mean fish and chips is self for $27 fish tacos $25 there you go lunch buffet 31 made to order Poke Balls teriyaki chicken all

21:11 natural Kalo pork and cabbage moal garlic shrimp I'm going to do the buffet all right the waitress said do not leave any food unattended because the birds will get it so you always be sitting with your plate you're getting the buffet food but if you get up there's no one sitting here birds will have a away with this

21:31 Hawaiian AI tuna or shrimp also got some short ribs here some cabbage some rice nice little mixture of all kind of different items got the surf boards on the roof here you got the ceiling fans nice little Vibe all right the shrimp is very very spicy well not very spicy slightly spicy this is very hot I

22:00 don't know what is on this but that is like the hottest whatever that is red pepper flakes but the shrimp down here has a little tasty spice to it this is a little too hot to be tasty the shrimp's got a little mellow spice that has little spice with kick you doing down over there pigeon

22:33 [Music] that Pig's got that that Bird's got that fry somebody dropped a fry from the other table look at this thing what is this it is the crispy chicken BLT that looks pretty good not on the buffet not on the buffet yeah a little ranch dressing on

23:00 there some onion lettuce bacon applewood smok bacon that's good you just got the regular burger I got a it's a mango barbecue oh not on the buff not on the buff all right going to head back back to the rental car now parking the parking

23:27 structure turns out this building here which is called the Moana Surf Rider is the first lady of y k the Moana Hotel open on March 11th of 1901 as y ke's first hotel parked the rental car over here we at the car and meet everybody down on street level had to park all the way on the top of the structure but

23:46 those look at that you got one two how many levels is this one 2 3 four five levels but the palm trees are a couple levels above it a lot of these little scooters scooters and motorcycles in here we a lot of these little little scooter Styles we're heading back to Alani pass by a place called Leonard's Bakery

24:10 Leonards Leonard's right Leonard's Bakery look at this chicken right over here Leonard's Bakery which has quite a Congregation of people in front of it so really tough to find parking had to park in a neighborhood a little bit of a ways away but I've heard good things about this might get a nice delicious treat to

24:31 polish off the buffet we just had why did the chicken cross the road why chicken why why did the chicken cross the road got that classic neon malasadas I think I'm pronouncing that right it's basically kind of like another word for a dut more or less at

24:56 least from what I can tell from the signage they also have the regular malasadas they also have malasada Puffs so I decided to go ahead and get a dozen of the malasada Puffs which is what I went with and uh there's six different uh six different flavors so I went with two flavors of each we're going to share

25:14 them amongst the five of us take them back to Alani yeah this place is hopping not a lot of whole heck of a lot of parking actually ready to back into where you put pick up you order inside you don't order outside you order inside then you wait outside for them to get get your Milada pop ready the whole wall

25:34 here of History there's Leonard and his wife Margaret look at this little some merchandise in here with these little cute little msada Puffs on it looks like there used to be a mocada wagon back in 1963 check it out Mr Tom celic himself signed right here for Leonard there's leard right there here's

26:00 your coffee but they're still working on the M went with a little coffee action here the cre a is the same way they did back when they opened in doors in 1952 from scratch they open their doors from scratch no they open them in 1952 started making them from scratch by hand it's lots of Aloha and because they make

26:21 them to order you will always always get hot M his Bakery your staff is working hard in the kitchen to get your out the quick as possible we maintain the quality we are known for Mahalo your patience good reading over here in the newspaper racks in front of Leonard's Bakery right a little uh little neon is

26:44 in full effect right now like a beacon letting everyone know to get a nice delicious treat everyone just Waits outside they order inside they wait outside I like the style of this place love the old Neon bus loads of people coming by here of course they're not getting out but bus

27:02 loads of people are coming by they're just riding by not stopping but double decker bus loads of people imagine if you lived right up there on that balcony you would have full access to madas anytime you wanted just walk down all right let me show what we got we're not going to eat all

27:22 these obviously can put it back in the car but here they are should we try one now should we try one now we should take it back to the car try one now I don't even know which flavor is which I just go it random this look like a custard chocolate guava all right I'm going to go with this here it's uh definitely

27:40 very warm oh my God all over your face it's good it is all over oh got the chicken down here you want a little m s chicken watch out chicken why'd you cross the road there's a car coming it's pretty dang

28:08 good messy though very messy thank you aome cheers oh chicking overload chcken overload

28:36 back up at the room now getting a good view of the sunset look at this just about over the horizon just about

29:05 gone all right that's going to do it for today pretty good day very busy day lot of traffic Honolulu W Ki then coming back into coalina here on aahu here in Hawaii went out on the ocean glass bottom boat but really didn't even

29:31 really look through the glass bottom didn't see anything through the glass bottoms but saw some pretty good Skyline Hulu at it Dukes how is

29:57 that you like it Mom