The town of Waimea is on the coast. When we were there, the skies were blue, and white clouds were floating overhead even though the inland mountains were bathed in dark clouds and mist. As we drove up Waimea Canyon on highway 550, we left the sunny weather behind and began climbing into red rock. […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
The Roads of Kauai
Tue, 24 Apr 2012, 08:21 PM (-06:00)
You can almost drive around Kauai—almost but not quite. The steep cliffs on the mountains along the Na Pali coast resist any road building there. Otherwise, it is easy to get around. The speed limits are low, and people drive them. Most of the pseudo-ring-road is easy to drive. Lush forests grow right up to […]
A Peacock
Tue, 24 Apr 2012, 08:00 PM (-06:00)
At the Smith Family Garden Luau, they drove us around the grounds before the festivities started. There were ponds and flowers and blooming trees. There was a goat cleaning her kid that had just been born. And there were peacocks like this one. All the tourists were snapping pictures of all these things, and I […]
Po‘ipu Beach 2
Tue, 24 Apr 2012, 06:30 AM (-06:00)
“Did you see me?” Trudy asked as I sat down next to her. She had returned to the beach before I did, because the swells were making her dizzy, and her goggles were slipping. So I was just now rejoining my fair and industrious wife. “Did you see what happened when I got out?” I […]
Po‘ipu Beach 1
Mon, 23 Apr 2012, 09:23 PM (-06:00)
As soon as we put our faces in the water at Po‘ipu Beach, we were surrounded by fish. One moment we were mere tourists in the water and the next we were among swarms. There were Yellow Tang. There were Orangestripe and Whitespotted Surgeonfish. There were various kinds of Butterflyfish. There were orange Elegant Coris and ones with black and […]
Spouting Horn
Mon, 23 Apr 2012, 09:16 PM (-06:00)
At Spouting Horn there is a big hole in the lava at the water’s edge. As the blue waves of the Pacific crash onto the rocks, the ocean spouts out of a hole in the ground straight into the air. Tourists arrive in rental cars and buses to stand at the edge of this marvel […]
Eggbert’s
Sun, 22 Apr 2012, 08:55 PM (-06:00)
Trudy had heard of this breakfast place in Kapaa called Eggbert’s. So after the sun was up, we went looking for the place with a trusty Google map in hand. As it turned out, Google was wrong. So we drove around a bit until we finally asked a construction worker if he knew where Eggbert’s […]
Sunrise on the Pacific
Sun, 22 Apr 2012, 08:37 PM (-06:00)
On the morning of our first full day in Kauai, we woke early. Light was just beginning to coming in thru the curtains. The fair and industrious Trudy got up and peeked out. “Is the sun up?” I mumbled. “Not yet,” she said. There was a pinkish glow on the horizon. I sat up quickly. […]
Driftwood
Sun, 22 Apr 2012, 08:18 PM (-06:00)
On our first day in Kauai I took a fancy to a small piece of driftwood washed up on the beach. I picked it up and proclaimed, “I’m taking this.” Trudy scowled. The next day, I woke up sick. I had a headache. I had a neck ache. I was nauseous and didn’t want to get out […]
It Felt Like Infinity
Sat, 21 Apr 2012, 09:24 PM (-06:00)
Lihue is not a big city. Indeed, it’s not a city at all but just a town, albeit the largest on the island. So there was no delay catching the rental shuttle and renting a car and driving from the airport to our condo in Kapaa. When we got to the room, day was almost […]