{"id":2112,"date":"2012-05-03T20:46:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T02:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2012-05-03T20:47:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T02:47:31","slug":"along-the-coast-of-kauai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2012\/05\/03\/along-the-coast-of-kauai\/","title":{"rendered":"Along the Coast of Kauai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After our hike along <a href=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2012\/04\/30\/ho%E2%80%98opi%E2%80%98i-falls\/\">the hidden trail<\/a>, we spent the rest of the day driving along the coast from Kapa\u2018a to Hanalei. We thought we might stop at some of the many beaches and go snorkeling. In the event, drizzle and trade winds kept us out of the water.<\/p>\n<p>But we saw rivers running from the mountains down onto sandy beaches.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_7341.jpg\" alt=\"DSC 7341\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And we saw Norfolk Pines standing watch over the land.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_7352.jpg\" alt=\"DSC 7352\" height=\"275\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And we saw fields of taro in valleys nestled against cloud-shrouded mountains.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_7653.jpg\" alt=\"DSC 7653\" height=\"275\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And we saw surf pounding against barren cliffs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_7358.jpg\" alt=\"DSC 7358\" height=\"275\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And we saw islands in the deep blue sea.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_7418.jpg\" alt=\"DSC 7418\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And we saw the surf breaking on the sand.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_7476.jpg\" alt=\"DSC 7476\" height=\"275\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And we sat in the shade, watching the waves and breathing the breeze.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_7554.jpg\" alt=\"DSC 7554\" height=\"275\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We drove up and down the coast and saw these things. And the day ran away from us.\u00a0And as we headed home the mountains began receding into night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-bottom: 2%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_7689.jpg\" alt=\"DSC 7689\" height=\"275\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After our hike along the hidden trail, we spent the rest of the day driving along the coast from Kapa\u2018a to Hanalei. We thought we might stop at some of the many beaches and go snorkeling. In the event, drizzle and trade winds kept us out of the water. But we saw rivers running from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}