Sunday in Hawaii

Another beautiful day. I was actually glad it was Sunday so I could rest up a bit, and let my sunburn heal. Yes, after all the warnings and all the reapps of sunstop I got burned on the backs of my legs, and two stripes down my back where I forgot to get under my straps... Actually not as bad as it could be. Jennifer's back was fried and Cathy had some red skin as well.



This chapel is actually in Kapa'a because I couldn't find a picture of the Hanalei one and I had forgotten to take my phone with me to church (unlike some people I could name, I don't text during church :). It was similar to this one. Cathy and Jennifer have a picture of us in front of it.


It was a very small branch. Most of the people there were visitors. I guess living in paradise for some people means they don't really need God. It was great to be there with no responsibilities in the middle of God's beautiful creations. Made me ever so thankful.


We stopped to get some pictures of the lookout between Hanalie and Princeville. Those Tara fields down there supply most of the State's Tara. Sad I didn't get any. I loved yutou on the mission.



(it didn't look like this when we stopped as it was misty and rainy).


After lunch and some rest we headed out to drive around and see the sights.


We drove up to Opaekaa falls and Wailua River Overlook. The falls wasn't running very high even though there had been lots of rain. Couldn't get very close to it either, but I loved all the green.
















On Monday this, Wailua, is the river we kyacked up. These fields were were the royalty lived, and the river is/was considered sacred.















There are 6 temples lining the peaks of the valledy, and this was the ruins of one.


There were chickens there too

The rain moves through pretty quickly

One of the things on my list was to see a lighthouse. The Ninini lighthouse was free so thats the one we decided to go find. It ended up being quite an adventure to get there. We decided that it was named as a taunt. We drove on this crazy dirt road that just up and ended

Then drove around through the marriot.

We could see the thing, just couldn't get there!

(This is Nawiliwili bay- got to love the names)

We walked through an old golf course under reconstruction, and as its in Lihue, the airport, saw some planes coming in low.












After walking around the point we finally found it!





For some reason I didn't get a picture of the actual lighthouse, so I had to borrow one again...











Thats Jennifer









The planes really feel super close, like you could just reach out and touch them.... There was a man with his little boy there watching the planes. Reminded me of stories of my dad when he was little.





I loved watching the waves crash against the rocks. I love the different colors in each wave. I love the sounds, and the power in it. I love that we had talked about in church, the voice of Jehova sounding like the rushing of great waters...

We then drove to the south side of the island to check it out. We saw where Cathy and Jen has stayed 10 years ago when they came before (Poipu). And since we were down on that side (the Sunny, drier side, we crossed something else off my list, and saw the spouting horn. The waves were even more mesmorizing down here with the sun going down and the sounds of the waves and spout. I guess before you could go right down there (you probably still could as we saw some people down closer on the other side), but too many tourists were dumb and got swept off to sea so they put up a fence.

hmmm self portraits leave something to be desired.



















I didn't quite time it right to get the spout really big in the picture, so you'll have to take my word for it. It originially was even bigger, but the sugar cane guy here got annoyed with the salt spray stunted his crop right there and threw some dynamite down there. Jerk.


The little park right there had lots of chickens (of course) and flowers but these looked familiar. Mangosteen. Hint: while amazingly delicious ripe, the unripe fruit is the oposite of eddible.











I tried eating lots of different berries and such around the island. Most of my experimenting was not favorable, but the coconuts, avacodos and limes made up for it. Should've done my research on edible plants in hawaii before going :)

It was really interesting to see this part of the island. Its a lot drier and not as green. I saw dragon fruit growing everywhere, its like a tropical cactus.