We went to Kauai in September of 2010. Her are some pictures (well, actually, quite a few pictures) from our trip.
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| Late afternoon-looking over part of our pool and down into Hanalei Bay | Sun setting into Hanalei Bay | The obligatory rainbow picture-look closely and you can see it is a double | ||
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| Pictures from our balcony | ||||
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| A type of Cardinal | A dove-both on our balcony with us | We didn't see any Albatross | ||
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| These 6 pictures were taken | on the beach below our resort | and at the eastern edge of Hanalei Bay | ||
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| The resort pool | ||||
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| After it rains you can see quite a few waterfalls like this one |
All of the pictures above were taken at our resort or on the beach below the resort.
The following pictures were taken on trips around the island.
Our first trip was to ride the boat up to the Fern Grotto and to go to a Luau. According to the tour guide, the Fern Grotto is the second most visited tourist attraction in all of the islands. Second only to the Arizona Memorial. I have been unable to confirm that but I have a firm policy of not contradicting Hawaiians so there you have it. Also, when you see the pictures you'll wonder why anyone would visit it. We are told that it was once much more beautiful but it was wrecked by a hurricane and is now regrowing.
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| One of the boats used for the trip up to the Fern Grotto | On the river | A "native village" | ||
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| On the boat | In front of the>>> | Grotto | ||
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| Walking into the Luau | Blowing the conch horn | digging up the pig | ||
| Additional pictures to be posted after video is processed |
Our second day trip was to the Waimea Canyon, also know as the Grand Canyon of the Pacific
That same day we also went to a dinner theater to see South Pacific. Of course, photography was not allowed so no pictures. We do, though, have a picture a friend of ours took of a sunset as seen from "Nurses Beach", the beach where parts of the movie version of South Pacific was filmed.
The third trip was a wild boat ride up to the Na Pali Coast. This is the north shore of the island and there are no roads into this area. We did our first snorkeling on this trip. Pictures from that are posted a little further below mixed in with pictures from our second snorkeling adventure which was on the beach below our resort.
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| Our boat, a 24' Rigid Hull Inflatable boat powered by two 150 hp outboards. There were 14 tourists, the deck hand, Mads (shown here getting ready for the trip) and Captain Matt. | Dolphins seen on the trip up the coast | Along the coast | ||
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| In a cave that has lost part of it's roof | Same cave | Hard to see but the arch here goes through to another beach. Perspective is very difficult. This arch is actually 90' high and they used to fly helo tours through it before the FAA put a stop to that. Stop was not for safety of passengers but for fear that the vibration would loosen the rocks and damage the arch. | ||
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| Captain Matt | X does not mark the spot. This X is formed by volcanic dikes. According to Hawaiian legend, it is a mark put up by the god of the fire and volcanoes, Peli, when she is through with the island. All of the Hawaiian Islands have an X similar to this, except the big island, which still has an active volcano. Something to think about. |
The fourth day trip was a tubing expedition. It ran 4.5 miles in a canal that was supposedly dug by hand in the 1870's to provide water to a sugar cane plantation. Of the 4.5 mile segment that we tubed, roughly 70% was in tunnels, also supposedly dug by hand.
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| At the start | Into tunnel 2 | |||
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| going over a small waterfall | at the end |
Some of these were taken up on the Na Pali coast at a State Park beach and some were taken in Hanalei Bay below our resort. Don't ask what any of the fish are. I don't know.
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And that's all folks!
Hope you enjoyed