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A Day at the Kiahuna Beach

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Back again at our absolute favorite beach. It is always quite crowded here, but still a million light years away from Japanese beaches. Still we enjoy this beach because it is always big waves that is safe to play in.



At the end of the day a guy came up to us and said “Hey, how are you doin’?”. Then he gave us two beach chairs :-O. It turned out they had gotten the chairs from someone and tomorrow they were leaving the island so they wanted to return the gift to someone else.



At 5 pm we returned home to prepare dinner. Today it was pasta puttanesca. But before finalizing it we had a short walk down to the ocean to watch the sunset.



Then we had pasta puttanesca until we were so full we could not move.



Moloa Bay

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One of our favorite beaches is the Moloa Bay beach. It has nice shadow under the palm trees and a beautiful view over green hills a blue-green ocean. It took us about an hour to drive there, in a slow Hawaiian style of driving with a lot of shaka signs whenever needed… And sometimes when not needed as well, just for the fun of it.

The 1 hour drive was well worth it as always. The Moloa bay is located on the east-north-east coast in very lush area. Quite isolated and always almost empty. As today.



We spent most of the day reading and relaxing. And some time we spent in the ocean swimming, and floating around like monk seals too.



On our way back to Poipu we stopped in Kapa’a town to shop some groceries, and some bikini tops. At Safeway they had some charity going on, called Cop Top. They had some police men standing on the roof shouting in a megaphone.

Chie had a hard time seeing them. At first she could not understand how someone could comment on all the things she was doing walking from the car to the store. I had quite a fun time though 😀

Once back home we (Chie) prepared Japanese curry for dinner. My job is the prepare breakfast and lunch every day, and to do the dishes.

Back at Poipu Beach

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Chie and I spent the day in sunny Poipu at the Poipu beach. It is one of the most crowded beaches in Kauai. Still, there is plenty of room for everyone on the beach and in the water.

As many other days at Poipu beach we got company. Today two sea turtles joined us. Just 5 meters away from where we lay.

I think the jet lag is going away. Today Chie and I were a little bit more active. We had a swim for 20 minutes or so. Not much, but hey, it is vacation after all 😉



At around 4:30 pm it started to rain. What happened to sunny Poipu? We packed our things and went home, just stopping by a grocery store to buy tomatoes and cucumbers for our lunch tomorrow.

When we got back home sunny Poipu was back 😎 While Chie took a shower I was sitting at the terrace. Reading a book and drinking Sobe.



For dinner we had anchovy, olive cream sauce pasta. Yummy.

A Day at the Kawailoa Bay

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Chie and I are quite good at doing nothing. We are so good at it we can do it in the sleep. We started last night, and continued throughout the day today.

The beach at Kowailoa bay is quite a nice place do nothing at. So after doing nothing at home we went to Kowailoa bay. Running our rented cheap Hyundai (no power lock, mechanical window controls, mechanical back mirror controls, etc.) very slowly on the bumpy dirt road.



At around 5 pm it was finally time to do something. We drove back home and then went to the grocery store. Buying groceries for dinner, which tonight was beef steak and salad 😛

Hello Kauai

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At 11:30 am we touched down on Lihue airport in Kauai. Got our bags. Got a rental car. Drove to sunny Poipu. And… We were home 🙂

At least that was how it felt. The great feeling of turning right after a steep, short down hill ride. And the ocean with Poipu beach opens up before you.

Poipu Plantation was as friendly as ever when we checked in. This is our 6th (?) year here and they start to get to know us now.

Our tradition is to go to Kiahuna beach the first day, after a short stop at Brennecke’s where bought lunch sandwich.

The whole afternoon we spent in the sand at Kiahuna. The group of 3 couples that we see every year we are here… Were here again. They sit in a circle at the beach and talk and drink all day long. We lay down a while away as to not disturb them by turning the pages in our books too loudly 😉



When the waves had grown to the size of Tokyo Tower we went into the ocean. Freezingly cold at first, but actually really nice after the first chock.

At 5 pm it got cloudy and started to rain a bit so we packed out things and went grocery shopping. In the evening we had tomato sauce pasta and salad for dinner. At home. Yummy!