Category Archives: Hawaii

Moloa Bay

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Cloudy all over the island. We had a plan to go north east to Moloa Bay, one of our favorite beaches, for the day. And we stuck to our plan.

At Moloa Bay it was mostly cloudy as the rest of the island. But it was perfect temperature to just read, relax, and sleep on the beach. Seems both Chie and I are a bit jet lagged still.

Just past 4 pm we started our return to the south part of the island. As usual it had cleared up in the south (it is always sunny in Poipu). We stopped at the Safeway in Koloa town to buy groceries, and at the Papaya’s organic shop.

At home we had Japanese style curry with rice and salad for dinner. Yummy.

And right now both Chie and I are up at the B&B house of Poipu Plantation, because the wireless network is a bit too weak for the liking of our iPads. But at the B&B it is OK.

Back in Kauai

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Flew from Honolulu to Kauai in the morning. As usual we got our rental car and drove back to Poipu Plantation to check in. The room was not ready but changed clothes and went to the Kiahuna beach, after shopping lunch at Brennecke’s

It was really hot when we arrived at noon but pleasantly warm at 5 pm when we left. We went to Big Save to buy groceries. Then home to prepare dinner and take a shower. Basically a day as any other in the paradise 😎

Poipu Plantation is our home when we visit Kauai. The staff is so friendly and they have a beautiful garden. With mango trees, oranges trees, and tons of flowers.

Whenever they have fruits they always welcome the guests to try. Right now it is the season for oranges and they have too much so they asked us to pick from the trees if we want too. I already tried an orange and it was juicily deliciously yummy 😛

Waikiki

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After a 7 hours or so long flight we arrived at the Honolulu airport. Not much changed since our last visit, though there were quite a lot of more people waiting in line for the shuttle bus.

No time to relax. Directly after checkin at the hotel we went for shopping. I visited one of my favorite stores Lululemon. And, of course, the Apple store.

We had dinner at the “usual” place, but it is because there are not too many good restaurants here within a reasonable price ran gee. And now we are just about to sleep, exhausted after a long day.

Bye, Bye Kaua’i

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This is then end… Of our Golden Week vacation 2010. It is always with mixed feelings that we return to Tokyo. On the one hand it is sad to leave Kaua’i. On the other hand it is going to be fun to get back home to e.g. visit Coco again.

We left Poipu Plantation resort around 4:45 in the morning. Our flight out of Kaua’i was the first in the morning. Then it was a looong flight back to Tokyo in economy class. Luckily we had seats in an exit row so we could stretch our legs.

We will be back in Kaua’i next year too 🙂

An Old Friend

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Today we met an old friend of ours at Kiahuna beach. “V20” the monk seal was again laying lazily at the beach. Of course we went there to say hello, though he seemed not to recognize us. Probably asleep.



The rest of the day we spent reading, talking, Chie drinking some Mai Tai, playing in the water and just relaxing and enjoying our last day in Kaua’i… For this time 😎



We stayed at Kiahuna beach until 6 pm, enjoying the last rays of warm sun before we had to leave.



Before leaving we walked up to a newly married couple laying next to us on the beach. They would stay about 1 more week at Kaua’i so we gave them our sun chairs. Kind of to return the favor to the one that gave them to us. Pass it on 🙂

Then it was the last preparations before going back to Japan. $10 Kauai chocolate for Johan. $25 gas for the car. $X XXXX for a friend (the X:es are just in case the friend reads this ;-)). And then home for dinner and packing.