Mahalo

Earlier this month we went to Kauai and enjoyed some lovely weather.  In fact, it was a little drier this time because they are having sort of a drought.  There weren't as many waterfalls, but it was still pretty. I had time to practice my photo skills.  The first thing I wanted to do is get some sunset photos.

And I almost missed this sunrise:

This time we stayed in Poipu at the Marriott Waiohai.  Usually we've been at the Marriott Beach Club in Lihue, so this was a change of scenery for us:

There was a sandbar that you could walk out on to look back at the resort and the surrounding beaches.  The tide from the two inlets came together on the sandbar.

We also got a chance to try out some different places to eat (which were good!)

You can't go to Kauai without noticing that there are chickens everywhere.... but they are pretty chickens, so it's okay.

My sister, Bonnie and her husband, Don came with us:

They didn't know that later in the week we'd almost kill them by making them kayak on that river down there!

We walked along the "lithified cliffs" and Mark decided to go out on this ledge.  It made me queasy but he wouldn't move until I took his picture.  Turns out that it is not as precarious as it looks.

If you look closely, you can see Mark near the edge of the cliff..... again!

I had plenty of opportunities to take pictures of the surf.  I love surf hitting rocks.  I have a ton of pictures of that, but I won't bore you with them all.

We also took a catamaran up to the NaPali Coast.  It wasn't as green this time, but still beautiful!

We went to Waimea Canyon and hiked a little ways down into it.  Okay, it was about a 4 mile hike... sorry Bonnie and Don.  We told them it was just a relaxing vacation.

One false step and he goes over the 800 ft drop.  Okay, there was another preliminary drop, but THEN it was 800 ft down.

On our kayak trip on the Wailua river, we also hiked into the jungle but the waterfall that was supposed to be there was dried up.  It was still pretty and had some interesting things to see.

 This is a vine, but looked more like tangled roots.

 The path was covered with roots

They said this was a flood tower.

Not all of the waterfalls were dried up.  This is the waterfall they used to show at the beginning of Fantasy Island.  You are probably too young to remember that TV show!

Lastly, Kauai (and I suspect most places with a tropical climate) has the most amazing trees.

Mahalo for reading this blog post!