Thursday, May 8, 2008

Kauai update - Thursday

Yesterday, we spent the day on a catamaran, touring the Na Pali coastline. We got to do about an hour snorkel stop (well...minus Bryon's snorkel mask not working correctly - water is supposed to stay OUT of the mask, not leak in). We took pictures with our waterproof disposable camera, so we won't have pictures until after we get back. But, I don't think the pictures can truely do justice to the beauty of the coastline.

This morning, we slept in (6+ hours on a boat in choppy seas will make you tired!) and then went to Poi'pu on the southern coastline and to see spouting horn (the blowhole below). We were there at low tide and still got to see it shooting about 15 feet in the air. I wonder how high it goes at high tide? This is the view looking west from Spouting horn. The Hyatt resort is about the third bay down on Shipwreck beach.This is a parrot at the Hyatt resort (I was working on some of my artistic photographic skills)
This couple is at the beach at the Hyatt. If this isn't paradise, I am not sure what is...
Again, flowers (more specifically orchids) at the Hyatt.This beach is about 15 minutes west of the Hyatt resort in Poi'pu. It is called Glass Beach. It is unlike any beach we have seen. The black sand beach is completely covered in small colorful pieces of glass. This beach is in an industrial area, and is covered with shards of auto glass, pieces of bottles, and other random pieces of glass. All of their sharp edges have been worn down by the water, and it makes a colorful unexpected beach.
Pieces of the beach that we picked up...sorry for the lack of focus...
A bottom of a beer bottle...
Bryon and I at the Glass beach. Bryon (although he looks like he needs to shave in this picture!), has now been mistaken MULTIPLE times for a local (we joked about it at first, now he has had three or four different stores ask me where I am from and then look at him shocked and say they thought it was a local). Must be nice to get that tan in 15 minutes in the sun...














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