Category Archives: Kauai

Kiahuna Day

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Second day in a row it is raining in Sunny Poipu :-O We spent the morning going to Lihue again to check the Mac Made Easy store. If they had an iPad. They had, but not the one I wanted 🙁

It feels like the Soup Nazi has turned into iPad Nazi and every time I sneak into a store to try to buy an iPad, he pops up and screams “NO iPAD FOR YOU!”.

We went back to (the not so) Sunny Poipu. And it was almost back to its normal sunny state. Well, it was still cloudy but it had stopped raining so we went to Kiahuna to play in the waves.

First stop in Kiahuna though, was not the sea but the restaurant at the hotel. We had a watery Caesar Salad and a cheese burger with fries.



After lunch we played in the waves. Which were quite big today. Its so much fun you almost does not feel when it is time to get out of the water (teeth rattling and lips blue just as when you were a kid).



In the evening I had a walk down to the ocean (2 minutes walk from Poipu Plantation). To take some photos.



When we cooked dinner it hit me again that Americans are a strange people. Much of their designs are quite rough and big and not so well thought through. As their stoves. How can someone think about putting the control nob on the back of the stove so that if your pasta water boils over you need to reach through the hot steam to turn down the heat?



Shopping Day in Lihue

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Rainy day = shopping day. Almost like clockwork there is one day out of 10-12 that is rainy when we stay in Kauai. This year as well. It was today. So we do as we always do, we went shopping.

Mostly gifts to bring to the office. Like Macadamia nut chocolate and Kauai Coffee. I always buy some books at Borders Book Shop. I found a pair of new bath shorts as well. Not at the book shop though 😉

One of the bath shorts I have is from when Chie and I went to Bali. About 7-8 years ago. It’s about time they got replaced.

Otherwise the most exciting thing that happened today was that we saw two small lizards hunting and killing a moth.

And then it was rain. And rain. And rain. It rained (cats & dogs – I went out and got soaked in 3 seconds) constantly from when we got back from a short visit at the Kiahuna beach after the shopping until when I am writing this at 7:30 pm.



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.