October 24, 2007
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Sunday, October 21
Hawaii is three hours behind California, so we were all up pretty early on our first day. We lounged around a bit and then headed for the beach. Mr. Poe and Sharon aren’t crazy about the beach closest to the hotel because they think the water is a little rough for swimming, so we headed to a beach a few minutes away that was a little more sheltered and without such a wacky surf. Kauai is unbelievably beautiful:
Here’s Mr. Poe up from his nap:
This is a small island a little offshort that you can swim to but the water is very shallow as you get close to it and it’s really rocky so it’s kind of a pain in the ass but when you get there it’s kind of worth it because there’s pools of water with little fish swimming in it.
After lunch, I decided to give Mr. Poe some time to sleep on the beach without me bothering him so I went for a little hike. This is the grounds of the Hyatt hotel:
And this is one of the mountains looming behind it:
This is the cliff above Shipwreck Beach. SOme people jump off it into the water. I’ve been forbidden to do so:
This is the view from the top of that cliff. You can see the Hyatt hotel and out hotel is the next one down the beach:
This is another view of Shipwreck beach:
I headed on a coastal trail I’d taken before. It’s very pretty:
The trail spits you out on this gorgeous beach. It’s kind of hard to get to by road so it wasn’t very crowded.
The trail picks up again at the end of the beach:
And it leads to this even more secluded beach:
I picked up an actual road on the way back. The area is a cattle farm. An actual cowboy came to make sure that I had latched the gate:
They’re growing corn as well:
One last view of the beach:
And the name of the beach that non of us can pronounce:
Mr. Poe had asked me to pick up olives. This seemingly innocuous errand added a full 50 minutes to my walk because there aren’t a lot of places to buy olives at Poipu beach. It was pretty late by the time I got back to the room. I was totally exhausted and I had some dinner and went to bed.
