Castle Hale Awapuhi Kapaa

... I will get some good pictures.<br><br>I know we would be really having a good time if you all were here with us! I can only imagine what it would be like. It may not seem like it, but we are having fun just relaxing and doing our own thing since we've been on most of the tours at least once, decided not to do them again this time, just enjoying the ship and the ship and walking around the ports.<br><br>love to you all<br>SnV

... save it for a special occassion, but it is very memorable. On our tour we saw the NaPali coast, which is on the side of Kauai with no roads - it is only visible by boat tours &amp; helicopter. It is unbeliveable! We also so the Jurassic Park waterfall shown in the movie!<br><br>The rest of the day was spent lounging by the pool and swimming at the beach at our villa. It was off to Maui the next morning!<br>

... Hanalei and drove to Princeville, which is a very twee, top-of-the-range resort of expensive houses and condos and perfectly pruned gardens. Luckily you can enjoy the view for free, so I sat myself on a bench and ate from my polystyrene box! Returned to Kapa'a, where there was a huge raining storm so got a coffee before whiling away the afternoon in an internet cafe. Since I can't go back to Waikiki, I had to find somewhere else to stay tonight ...

My mother and I went to Kauai for a week long vacation before I moved to Oahu to go to school. I moved all of my luggage (books and rocks, man... not a good idea) and hers in and out of cars all day long and then went to sleep. <br><br>I then woke up at 4 am and was unable to move due to the intense pain in my back. I was promptly ...

... good for snorkeling, but the parking was in a really remote place. Someone had left a note saying their truck had been vandalized the day before and were looking for information on who might have done it. The note looked like it might have been from a local. We figures if a local is having problems with vandalism, an obvious rental car had no chances. So, we scratched this beach off our list also. We could actually see Larsen's beach from here and it looked like it would also ...

... while the road north along the coast becomes Highway No. 270.   In the hamlet of Hawi, located near the northernmost point of Big Island , we headed south towards Waimea on Highway 250.   This has to be one of the most pleasant stretches of ridge driving in Hawaii . My immediate reaction was "this looks just like Switzerland ".   As I said this, I did not have the Alps in mind but some of the less mountainous regions of Switzerland such as the ...

... into the category of an extreme sport. Ehukai Beach Park is just north of Waimea Bay. The bay also has outstanding surfing at Waimea Bay Beach County Park. The Banzai Pipeline and the "Waimea Bay wave" are two of the most famous waves in the world. So did we see these giant tunnel waves at Ehukai Beach Park? The short answer is - no. It makes me think of what is apparently the most common phrase in surf talk -"you should have been here yesterday:" Looking at my photos, it ...

... ole kysymys! Vesi kiertää jatkuvasti altaassa, joten se on puhdasta ja kristallinkirkasta. Tänään kuningatar oli kuitenkin huonolla tuulella, eikä tahtonut meitä altaaseensa. Oli niin sanotusti liian kovat poreet ja kylpyvaahdot kehissä :-) Uimisesta ei puhettakaan, mutta syötiin kuitenkin matkalla ostamamme aamupalasämpylät altaan reunalla ja katseltiin kaukana merellä hyppiviä valaita. Kevyen kenttäaamiaisen jälkeen lähdettiin takaisin hotellille valmistautumaan ...

Rubi and I spent 2 days hitching around Kauai when I decided that I wanted to rent a car. I only had 4 days on Kauai and I wanted to see things! Hitching is fun and easy, but it's hard to get to more remote areas. We picked up her friend Tim (after getting our car) and brought us to Kipu Falls. SO cool! Gorgerous falls with a huge lagoon at the bottom and a rope swing going off a cliff with a 15' drop to the water. We both went twice (I ...

We toured Kauai this morning. What a beautiful island, surrounded by ocean. We saw a place on the shoreline, called Spouting Horn, where lava tubes through a hole in coastal rocks creates a natural fountain. You can hear the water rush in and then it spouts spray and foam into the air, looking much like a geyser. There are chickens everywhere. Apparently there was an extremely powerful hurricane that hit this island on September 11, 1992. The highest wind speed ...