Papa and I flew to Kauai yesterday. We rented a cottage on the beach. We’re enjoying the constant sound of rough seas and the clucking of chickens. We’ve never seen so many chickens... everywhere!
After our six and a half hour flight, we arrived yesterday afternoon, starving! We ate a late lunch/early dinner of fresh mahi mahi tacos with mango salsa and cabbage slaw served on top. They were delicious! We shopped for groceries, then found our beach cottage by 5.
We woke up to a sky heavy with clouds. Blue began to appear in the sky soon after breakfast, so we set off to explore. I took photos of the outrigger canoes just up the road from our cottage. We stopped for smoothies at a farm stand, then drove to the Kilauea Lighthouse. Entry has been limited for the past year, but the view was beautiful, over a cove designated as a National Wildlife Refuge. Big water birds were busy flying back and forth.
We stopped at a couple more beaches, with clouds following us and dropping sprinkles. We walked around the Christ Memorial Episcopal Church and it’s cemetery, with headstones dating to the 1800’s. The church was built of lava stone about 100 years ago. The road to Hanalei was closed due to construction repairs after a washout a few weeks ago after an unusually rainy several days. We turned around and drove south to Kapa’a for lunch of shrimp tacos on the beach. We explored a bit further and visited the Wailua Complex of Heiaus - historic Hawaiian places of worship. We saw a beautiful waterfall nearby, then stopped for dinner takeout - açaí bowls filled with locally grown fresh fruit. A good day!
