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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Aloha Welcome to Kauai-Part 1


After a short flight we landed in Kauai!



They follow the boy scout motto wherever they go

We stayed near the Coconut Plantation at the Islander on the Beach. It was a nice condo and we had an ocean view room!Coconut Plantation

Front Desk


After waiting until our exact check in time we were finally let into our room. We set up camp then we decided to head out and check out Kauai

This was the closest thing we could find to the swap meet


We finished off our first day with a delicious and healthy pizza

Day 2-3

We were still suffering the effects of the monsoon, so the only beach that we could snorkel was Tunnels, which turned out to be our favorite, and I finally got to test out my new underwater camera (which I LOVE)Pretty bird wrasse


Convict tangs and saddle wrasse and 1 lowfin chub in the back

I had to included this video! I walked all the way down the beach and back (in total at least a mile) and they were in this exact position when I left. Mom is the only one stuck on the reef in the middle of the calm clear water. Dad is to her left not knowing how to help.


They might have been a little out of their element!

The next day we explored the south side of the island:
We hit the Grand Canyon of the PacificThe vog was really heavy that day because the trade winds were cut off due to the monsoon

We drove backwards just to hit JoJos so Dad could get some more shave ice

It was really good mac nut ice cream

After dessert we decided to have lunch, and took Grandpa's recommendation for Tomkats Grille. Im glad we did because the food was really good!-Thanks Grandpa!!


They did actually have cats that came around that begged for some food


After lunch/dinner we went down to Poipu beach. Now this was the beach that I remember from 6 years ago, I loved Poipu the last time we were there. This time it was not that good...sadly
Half of the parking lot was still under water from all the rain

Flaunt it if you got it

The waves and currents were really strong, but we did see a couple of monk seals, and mom got some more chances to chase the chickens around and get her pictures


The second half of the trip is comming!

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

nice job finally getting around to poisting this! i'm anxiously awaiting part 2! :)