Saying Goodbye to Kauai

These were the pictures of the huge succulent garden in Poipu and Don is watching the Spouting Horn blow with a couple of other tourist. Can't find the pictures I took of that.

Like I said on Friday we drove to Weimea Canyon. First going to the Kauai Coffee Company and Don sampled the coffee.

Next stop was the small town of Hanapepe with its Swinging footbridge. A cache was bringing us here.

This town is pretty run down but it is trying to turn into an artist town with lots of art galleries.

One thing you might not know about Kauai is that their are roosters and chickens everywhere. The story is that one of the hurricanes tore up all the chicken coops and they just continue to increase in population.  They are everywhere.  Here are some examples.

View of some of the chicken coops built again. 

Here are some of the views of the canyon. It was a mini grand canyon but greener.

We headed back to Waimea for a treat of Shaved Ice at Jo Jo's.  We ate here last time we were in Kauai and they were excellent. It was like a snow cone with ice cream on the bottom. I had a pina colada with macadamian ice cream and Don had Banana Split with vanilla ice cream I think.  Yum Yum!!

 

Our plan was to spend the day at the pool and beach on Saturday & Sunday since we had geocached everyday so far & no time to lounge by the water.  Of course we don't lay in the sun.  We try to find a tree or something to shade the sun from us. Saturday we got out too late to get a chair in the shade but we managed to lay on our towels in the shade and read our books.  Fun to beach watch. 

This was a far in the water as we got!!

This was about 5:00 in the afternoon and everyone had headed in for the evening.

We had a great week in Kauai but we don't enjoy the plane ride home. We left at 11:00 pm on Sunday night and got home at 3:30 pm on Monday. Long ride and we didn't like US Airways at all.

Aloha from Kauai!!

Each day we worked out and these are some pictures after our workout.  We were trying to cool down. Each day at 9:00 the resort feed their Koi fish and their was a big crowd to watch. They had hundreds of Koi and they were hungry.

On Wednesday we drove up towards Wailua Falls and Kapaa as we drove we hunted for geocaches along the way. We found 10 along this drive along with some great views.

 

This is the river across from the falls. They kayak and water ski down it.

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This is the famous Coco Palms. It was destroyed by the 1992 hurricane that hit Kauai and was never repaired.  Anyone know what it is famous for?

After dinner we were setting on the beach looking at the homes on the cliff and a cruise ship leaving the port.

On Thursday we were on a quest for a geocache on a back road. It lead us to a beautiful beach (Shipwreck Beach) along with a lot of people. It had rained a couple of days and the dirt road was full of large pot holes that were filled with water. We probably shouldn't have attempted it in our little 2-wheeled car but we did it slowwwwwwwly. These were the views we found along with seven caches & a protected monk seal. The seal had a area taped off so it wouldn't be disturbed.

Then we headed to Poipu to find a few caches and it took us to a huge succulent garden and the Spouting Horn(one of the famous blowholes).


Friday we headed out towards Waimea Canyon. First we went into the little town of Waimea and had our Subway sandwich at a park where we found the monument for Captain Cook's landing in Hawaii in 1778(this was a virtual cache). 

Then we headed to the canyon. It has two roads and we took the back one(because we missed the first one). We were very lucky today because the canyon was clear with no clouds to obstruct the view.

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Don's Birthday

Happy Birthday, Don!!     Hope you are with me many more years.    I love you!!

4 or 5 yrs old

18 yrs. old

71 yrs old in Kauai

I have been very lazy the last month on my blog but hope to get back to it.  I have been busy but it hasn't been too exciting.

Last week Don & I went to Kauai. It was a great trip and was good to get out of the cold weather.

Ricki took us to the airport at 4am (what a sister).  We flew to Dallas, Phoenix and then Kauai.  It was pouring rain in Kauai when we arrived. We stayed at the Marriott Kauai in Lihue less than 5 miles from the airport. Checked out our rental car and checked into the room.  With a four hour time difference we were tired early. We unpacked, got groceries, ate a hamburger & went to bed early.

We were up early on Monday & it was a cloudy & rainy morning.  Working out by 7:30. They had a great workout room but it was crowded.

This was the view out our room. We were up on the 4th floor & this was a roof above the 3rd floor with these plants.  On Monday, we walked around the resort & up to the lighthouse.  From some geocaches around the resort area. This was an adjustment day with jet lag and rain. We signed up for a Marriott presentation the next day. This time change was kicking our butt and we went to bed early again.

It was easier for us to get up early than it was to stay up until 10:00. Tuesday we were up early again to workout. After our shower we went to the Marriott presentation but I didn't care for the sales lady at all but we got $150 Marriott dollars that bought our dinner for most of the week.  Went back to the lighthouse to find a geocache.

At the Lighthouse

Close to the airport

Don with the rental car

I'll try to finish with the pictures tomorrow. Gotta go to bed tonight!!