Our rental car
Of course we have to drive at a leisurely pace so the flowers don't blow off, but all in all, it's a great little car. Having toured the North Coast before Typhoon Dale (earlier referred to erroneously as Typhoon Dave) confined us to our room, we struck out to explore the South and West. Here, we discovered a quiet village where hand-painted coconuts grow wild on the trees. Truly magical, given the fact that they aren't even coconut trees.
The spitting of the gods
Ever wonder how the gods feel when joggers all over the world unthinkingly flip loogie after loogie on the earth? Well, Hawaiian legend has it that this is the place where mankind is paid back a thousand fold. This is the Spouting Horn on Lawai Bay, by the way, also referred to as the Nostrils of the Gods.
Ancient messages
Near the Spouting Horn are these prehistoric plant writings. Apparently even the early Polynesians were prone to sentiments like "Ben + Susie" and "Bette loves Lou."
Waimea Canyon at sunset
A long, winding drive to 5,000 feet brought us to this spectacular view of Waimea Canyon, on the edge of the Na Pali Coast, which is accessible only by helicopter. At this altitude, the temperature drops about 20 degrees and you can slip your camera strap between very large goose bumps, which hold it quite securely
King Kong lives here!
For those of you who are cinema buffs, the Na Pali Coast is where King Kong and Jurassic Park were filmed, so if you don't want to come here, you can just rent the movies at Blockbuster and see for yourself. (If you squint, you can see Kong up at the very top on the right.)
Chicken make bad pet
An odd fact of Kauai--there are chickens everywhere. Even more odd--no one seems to know why. We have discovered that when we, with our inquiring tourist minds, ask the locals questions like "why are there chickens everywhere?" the answer is usually something like "what chickens?" Mike also discovered the hard way that a guy shouldn't put his camera down in a pile of chickens and expect it to emerge poop-free.Now it's time to eat breakfast and then go snorkeling. If you're curious about what we did today take a look at DAY 5 and see where we've been.