Well not exactly, tomorrow is, but only because I’m flying out at 1 p.m. leaving for the airport at 9 in the morning. If waking, packing and driving count then tomorrow is the last day. But today! Is the last day to explore. And I’m going to use it as best I can. A lot of fond memories. Too many to tell, my thousand plus photos will remind me whenever I’m feeling nostalgic. If, in the future, you find me wandering off in daydreamy thought you can guess where I am. The last letter in Bird’s book – Six Months in the Sandwich Islands – was to her sister to tell how much she was looking forward to Colorado and the cooler climate and to also address something her sister suggested for the two of them. Apparently Bird’s sister, from reading of Isabella’s adventures, wanted to join her and suggested that the 2 of them spend a year here in Hawai’i. Bird put the kibosh on that idea. Not going to happen she writes. I’m paraphrasing Bird’s words: “You can’t come, I have to leave, this is a wonderful place with the most wonderful people I’ve ever met and if I don’t leave now I never will, and if you and I were to stay a year here we will never leave.” That’s the feeling I’m having today, I have to leave tomorrow.
Yesterday a.m. doing laundry I met a woman who came here from Switzerland 35 years ago, met her Kansan husband and they never left. I’ve met more than a few who have had their Bird question answered the island way. I’m happy for all of them.
From Princeville I moved last week to Kapa’a, a little town on the east coast about in the middle of the island. This gave me a place closer to all the southern sites: Wailua, Lihu’e, Koloa, Po’ipu, Hanapepe and Waimea. I don’t want to bore you readers with any details of places, things, people and such so I’m opting for another photo essay of my weeks here on Kaua’i instead.
Having been on 4 islands over this adventure I’m not going to rank them. I loved my time on each one. They are all different. Yet if someone were to plan a trip here (3 weeks in my opinion is the least amount of time, though I know that is hard to do in the work world we live in, and only 2 islands at most) I would suggest first Kaua’i then the Big Island (Hawai’i) followed by O’ahu and finally Maui. Moloka’i, I was told by a couple who have visited all the islands, offers a quiet and very common lifestyle and if you’re looking for a remote hideaway it seems there would be the answer.
Hideaways reef 
Hideaways Beach 
Sunset – Princeville overlook 
Looking North
Hanalei Valley 
Kilauea Bay 
Mokolea Point 
Immaculate Conception Church cemetery 
Holoholoku Heiau 
What was once an ocean side motel – a mystery to me why it hasn’t been razed. 
2nd floor ocean view! 
“Own A Piece of Paradise” 
Grains of “sand” – coral and shell 
Waimea Canyon 
NaPali Coast – Kalalau Valley
Cook monument – Waimea 
Salt Pond Beach 
Salt pond 
Hanapepe bookstore 
Koloa town 
“Motel” 
Po’ipu coast 
1st sugar mill – Koloa “Where it all began” 
Makauwahi Cave – http://www.cavereserve.org/
The Great Fishpond of Alakoko 
From a rest spot on the Sleeping Giant trail – looking south toward Wailua 
The forbidden island of Niihau – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau
Gillin’s Beach – Po’ipu 
Lydgate Beach – Wailua 
Lydgate Beach – looking north
Hoopii Falls trail 
Every trail – a dab of crazy glue helped keep the noses intact. Putting this pair on display, red dirt and all!
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