SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20th

OUR LAST FULL DAY ON KAUAI

EXPLORING THE ISLAND & SNORKELING AT LYDGATE
PRINCEVILLE
We drove by this beautiful town with a hotel on the sea shore and modest, but delightful homes. My favorite trees on the Island were these pine trees. Jay told us that this was not even developed when he lived on the Island. It has only been in the last few years that the hotel and homes were built. To us, it looked like it had been there for years.
The gardens in front of the homes were gorgeous.

Continuing on to Ha'ena Beach

We loved how the clouds always hovered over the hills.
A fun and quaint village town

The trees and vines that were against a hill side were across the street from Ha'ena Beach

You get a better perspective of how huge the vines were when you see people standing by them.

Ha'ena Beach Park
We walked the beach and sat down to watch the people.

THE FISHERMAN

This man in the yellow pants caught my eye when we first got there. He looked a very haggard with torn clothes. I thought at first that he must be a homeless person who was a little odd as he just stared out at the ocean for a long long time. Then he got his fish net out and there you go, he turned into a fisherman. I loved watching him catch his dinner.

KING KONG

After snorkeling at Lydgate we wanted to get a picture of King Kong before we left the Island.

Can you see him lying down with this mouth wide open snoreing.

DINNER AT COSTCO, SO ROMANTIC!

John had to feed the chickens & roosters so we were surrounded by these little creatures

WE DECIDED INSTEAD OF BRINGING A PINEAPPLE KNICKKNACK HOME WE WOULD BRING HOME A ROOSTER NICKNACK TO PUT IN THE CURIO. I LOVE IT!

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19th

HOTEL POOL & CATAMARAN SUNSET TRIP TO THE COAST OF NA PALI
HOTEL POOL
We spent the morning at the hotel pool.

CAPTAIN ANDY'S SAILING ADVENTURES

OUR CATAMARAN SUNSET & DINNER TRIP

We sat up front of the catamaran the whole time, it was bumpy at times but so much fun!We had been told not to expect to see whales because the whale season didn't start until December, but guess what......on our way to the coast and on our way back we saw the famous hump back whales. On our way to the coast we saw a mother and her baby, and the baby was in a playful mood. On our way back we saw a big whale who came up out of the water and then in slow motion went back down, as it's tale just slid into the ocean, it was an awesome feeling.
The brown rocky mountain was a little surprising to see, but I was taking the pictures too soon, we hadn't reached the spectacular coast line yet. The only way you could get to these beach's were by boat. Now we are coming up to the magnificent coast.We saw waterfalls and the mountains started greening up.Checking out a cave on our way. We were up at the top of this mountain just on Monday, a striking scene both ways.These pictures do not do this coast line justice, but they are still wonderful to see.The clouds would shift, disappear and come back all within minutes, it was a fascinating site.

On our way back they hoisted put up the sails and we enjoyed a casual dinner.

Sunset on the ocean

I know, bad picture, but I had put it in anyway, I like how the sun silhouetted us.

THIS CATAMARAN TRIP WAS A REAL HIGHLIGHT TO OUR VACATION

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18th

LYDGATE/PUIPU/DINNER AT BRENNECKES
LYDGATE

We went snorkeling in the morning, best time to go!

This was a beautiful tree that we wanted to get our pictures by at Lydgate.

Kauai has the most beautiful birds, any guess what kind these are? I need to buy me a bird book.

We passed this sugar mill on our way to Po'ipu. All sugar mills have stopped production as of last year. Sad to see them close down, but Kauai is still well and thriving.
We heard about a secret beach passed the Hyatt, down a long road. We thought we would venture out to discover this little gem. As you can see the road became very narrow and muddy.

We came across a little path leading into some trees, so we went exploring. The path

The moss on the trees were a florescent green, and absolutely spectacular!

If it was dark it would be very scary to walk through this path, but during the day it was awesome.

There were some beautiful bushes with bright red berries, we didn't try them out, we were not that brave.

We finally found the beach!

Not too secret as there were people walking up and down the beach they probably were from the hotel, still it was a fun adventure.

We went back to the hotel to get ready for our dinner at Brennekes

DINNER AT BRENNEKES

On our way into the restaurant a lady at the front desk just got off the phone and told her employees that they just had their first siting of the whales. These hump back whales come in December and stay until spring, but sometimes they can be seen at the end of November. That was kind of exciting to hear. But never expected that I would be lucky enough to see one.

We were seated upstairs in the corner of the restaurant by an open window. We couldn't have asked for better seating. I loved looking out the window, it was a scene you could only see in a magazine.
The food was great, thanks Jay for the suggestion! John had steak & tuna and I had steak and shrimp. We really enjoyed the evening, even the rain that came after dark was delightful.

A GREAT WAY TO END THE DAY !