KAUAI

This blog was way overdue. Kauai was awesome, Kelsey and I had so much fun.

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DAY ONE:

Of course the first thing we did was get some food. We ate at "Oki's Diner" it was pretty good. The pancakes there were nice and buttery.

After a quick bite to eat we headed to Kipu Falls. It took us a while to find this place because I'm a bad driver and we kept missing the entrance until we saw tourists walking back to their cars. Of course Kelsey was right all along as to where it was :) A little walk through some greenery got us to the falls and we crossed to the other side. It was amazing and there was a rope swing to jump off so we decided to give it a shot. The water was ice cold.

We worked up an appetite and Kelsey wanted to take me to this Bread and Deli place that she said was amazing, and she was right.

Sandwiches and chowder for both of us. The Bread and Deli was at the mall that we visited a couple times to get our share of sandwiches and soup. Both times that we went it was pumpin, I guess everyone can spot a good eat these days.

Next we checked out Tamba and got some hats and a sticker. We started heading up north, but the weather didn't look so great on that side.

We stopped off at this lookout point on the way to north shore, it overlooked a farm. It was hard to get a nice picture of the whole lookout because there were so much tourist stopping and taking pictures, but we finally managed to snag a quick one.

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It started to rain, so we headed back towards Kapa'a and checked out Kealia beach (which I had a hard time remembering the name of throughout almost the entire trip). It was cool how most of the beaches were pretty much empty on Kauai, very different from the beaches on Oahu.

Fun in the sun.

We ended up doing a lot in the first day. We tried to find a good spot to camp at, but that did not work out in our favor. The spot where Kelsey camped at last year now had "No Camping" signs up and big boulders blocking vehicles from getting onto the sand. That was a bummer. We ended up getting a room at the Kauai Sands.

DAY TWO:

Unfortunately I had to fly back to Oahu on Sunday for an orientation (forgive me Kelsey) and got back to Kauai around 6:00pm. Kelsey's mom flew over to Kauai to hang out while I was away. This was their adventure:

I wish I was there to have breakfast with them. I got to try one of the pastries later on though, it was delicious.

I was starving when I got back and Kelsey to me to "Bubba Burgers" yum!

Double cheeseburger with fries and onion rings.

DAY THREE:

We felt sleepy at the start of the day, so we decided to check out this cafe, Java Kai, that we saw on our many trips through Kapa'a (we literal drove through that town like 20+ times). Everything there was organic, or least I thought it was... I'm pretty sure it was. Anyways, it was a great way to start our day. There was this crazy dude sitting in-front of the cafe saying "Howzit" and "What's up" to everyone entering the shop, he was cool though.

Kelsey wanted to take me to the west side to check out Polihale Beach. It was a far drive, but very nice scenery. We had to off-road to get there and I was tripping out (because the rental was expensive), but Kelsey saved us. So she ended up driving to the beach. It was a good 10-15 minute drive off-road to get there, and was totally worth it. Polihale Beach is by far my favorite beach.

We pretty much had the whole beach to ourselves!

Polihale was pretty much completely empty and all ours. The sun was shinning, weather was sweet, and water was refreshing.

We body-surfed the shore break for a while. I tried to get a good picture but my fingers got in the way. After a while, though, it was too hot. We were burning, more like ROASTING, in the blazing sun. So we packed up and headed back to the car. The walk across the sand felt like we were crossing a desert.

On the way back we checked out this shrimp place and got Fried Coconut Shrimp, so good.

We checked out Wailua River, with hopes of kayaking up it on the last day.

Hamura Saimin.

ONO.

DAY FOUR:

Our last day :(

A front desk lady at the hotel told us to check out Olympic Cafe. It was bomb. Kelsey got an omelet with cheese, avocado, and bacon with fresh melon slices. And of course, I got the pancakes (bad idea because they filled me up too quickly).

Cruised at some random beach behind Kapa'a town where we watched all these crabs running around on the sand, there was more the 30 of them!

We went back to Kealia Beach to cruise and watch people surf one last time before heading to the airport.

Bye bye Kauai.

Ps. Random picture, but I was trying to get this picture for the longest time and finally got it on the last day. A Wyland (sp?) painting on the side of this building.