Asuka II

　　The morning of 12th. Japan's cruise ship, Asuka II, was supposed to put into Honolulu. I was going to welcome the ship on the pier, but overslept. I don't use an alarm clock in Hawaii. When I get sleepy, I hit the sack and when my eyes are open, I get up here. While I was drinking coffee idly on the balcony, I saw a white passenger ship, glittering under the tropical sunlight, passing on off Waikiki beach to the west. It appeared off Diamond Head and moved westward. The ship was reckoned to leave Kauai island last night, it must have navigated along the northern coast of Oahu. I didn't expect that I would be able to see it from my condo and was surprised to view it from the balcony. I rushed out to the beach to look at the ship as close as possible. There were few on the beach and Port Hilton, which was used for the starting point of various marine tours and the tip of which I wanted to reach, was closed. The first and second pictures were shot from the balcony, and the others were on the beach.

(Vocabulary)
put into〈船が〉＜港など＞に入る
reckon
be reckoned to be sth ＜…＞と見なされている［考えられる］
The Lawsons were reckoned to be very good farmers. ローソン一家はとてもりっぱな農場経営者と見なされていた．

　　
今日は１２日。予定通りならば日本のクルーズ船飛鳥２がホノルル港へ入港する日。出迎えに行きたいと思っていたが、少し寝過ごして６時頃目が覚めた。こちらでは目覚まし時計などという無粋な物は使っていない。眠くなったら寝て、目が覚めたら起きる。バルコニーでぼ～っとコーヒーを飲んでいたらなんとダイヤモンドヘッドの沖から白い客船がやって来た。飛鳥２だ。昨日はカウアイ島にいたはずだからオアフ島の北側を廻ってやってきたことになる。ワイキキから見えることを想定していなくて驚いた。すぐにカメラを持ってビーチへ向かった。ビーチはさすがに人影が少なく、先端まで行きたかったヒルトンポートは閉鎖されていた。この桟橋はいろいろなアトラクションの出発場所となっている。１枚目と２枚目の写真がバルコニーから撮ったもの。３枚目がビーチから。