If you were driving along Nimitz Highway the past couple of
days, you might have seen a huge floating structure at Pier 11, just makai of
downtown Honolulu, where the cruise ships usually dock.
I caught sight of it on Thursday, as I was driving down
Nuuanu Avenue on my way to the Regal Dole Theaters in Iwilei.
What I saw was the Sea Launch Odyssey, an ocean-going rocket platform here for fuel and stocks,
on its way to Southeast Asia for dry dock maintenance. A couple of weeks ago,
it launched a European broadcast satellite.
If you haven’t seen it, then you’ve missed your chance, as
the Odyssey left Friday afternoon. It
was last seen in Honolulu in December 2007. Hopefully you’ll get another chance
sometime in the future.
If not, sorry 'bouddat.
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