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On Oahu we stayed at the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani in the heart of Waikiki and spent one of our first days soaking in the sun on what proved to be a pretty accessible beach. It provides many access points, a short roll through the sand, and accessible bathrooms at some stations.
Accessible Pearl Harbor
We allowed for a day touring Pearl Harbor where the wheelchair certainly came in handy, buzzing us to the front of the long line for the movie and the boat ride to the USS Arizona! What we hadn’t anticipated was the distance from Waikiki to Pearl Harbor, and instead of roughing it on the bus system, we splurged on a $30 rental car for the afternoon, Budget’s office being just a one-block roll from our hotel. The whole National Park area was accessible, although usually somewhat crowded.
Sacred Falls State Park
We have good friends who live on Oahu, so we spent another day driving up to the famous North Shore of the island, known worldwide for its surf, to Sacred Falls State Park and on to Sunset Beach. The roll through the State Park was long, but well worth the visit. The Sacred Falls pool at the end of the road was complete with life jackets and a lifeguard who helped us get Craig over the rocks to swim.
Adaptive Golf Strike Out
One thing we did strike out on in Hawaii was golf. Our friend on Oahu is a golf pro, and despite his researching and our own, we were not able to find a course with an adaptive golf cart. However, since that trip in 2006 I have been informed of a website that would have helped us, and perhaps if I’d called SoloRider back then, we might have golfed.
If you go to their site and plug in Hawaii, there are currently nine courses that come up. The only one on Oahu is the West Loch Golf Course in Ewa Beach, but there is one on Kauai and several on Maui as well.
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