Afternoon in the Sun

Gibbon exhibit: decline and fall not apparent

The youngster said he wanted to check out the Honolulu Zoo.

Later I discovered that he was looking for virtual animals, not real ones. The Zoo has rare Pokémon used in the augmented-reality Pokémon GO game, which seems to have gotten a second wind.

While the youngster was off looking for fake creatures, I enjoyed meandering about looking at the real ones. The Zoo seemed a lot smaller than I had remembered it; not only are childhood memories different from adult perceptions, but everything in Hawaii seems smaller once one has lived on the Mainland. The animal enclosures were much improved over the simple fences and cages of 60 years ago.

After finding the animals we were looking for, we both got shaved ice, the perfect Hawaiian ending to an afternoon in the sun.