Today we had to leave Kauai for this time. We left the Poipu Plantation Resort around 7:30 am to catch a flight to Honolulu at 9:50. Then Chie left Honolulu around 3:45 pm in a flight bound for Tokyo. I spent another 5 hours to catch a flight to LA, then Newark, to finally arrive in Stockholm around 7:30 am… On May 8. I arrived back home about 40 hours after departing Poipu Plantation Resort to take a shower, brush my teeth, and go to the office.

Today is our last day at Kauai for this time. But we will be back. As usual we wanted to spend our last day at Kiahuna, our favorite beach. The weather was not great. A little bit cloudy but still quite hot. And almost no people. We relaxed and had fun in the waves.

Afterwards we went back home and packed.Took a shower and got ready to go to Roy’s. At Roy’s we had spring rolls spiced with mint as a starter. And Macademian nut covered fish with asparagus, and short ribs with grilled vegetables. For dessert, apple volcano and Roy’s chocolate sufflé.

The weather was lousy in the morning. Raining. Then it cleared up. And we went to the beach. As soon as we had settled in on the beach it started to rain again. But we hid under a palm tree and waited. For about 5 minutes. Then it stopped. An hour later it was sunny again and hot as…

We did some snorkeling. And saw some new fishes. A dark white dotted small blow fish, a flat fish, and a sea snake. Besides all the normal fishes at poipu.

In the afternoon we went to the pool bar at the Marriot’s to have a Mai Tai and a strawberry smoothie. When we were back at the beach our things were surrounded by big Americans. But they moved a away after less than 5 minutes of evil eyes. And the gods payed us back for our evil eyes by sending a big wave up the beach that drenched our towels.

At 5 pm we decided to return home. We stopped at the Poipu Shopping center to make a reservation at Roy’s for tomorrow night at 7 pm. Then we also bought some organic salad for the dinner tonight and the lunch tomorrow.

We talked to Jay Naih at the reception this morning and he told us that the lighthouse on the north shore was 95 years old. They would celebrate this today. That was what made us decide to go to the north rather than stay in the south. And what a great decision it was. We went to Secret beach just next to the lighthouse. We’ve been here before but then it was too hot to stay for more than 5 minutes. This time it was beautiful here.

We spent the whole day here. Relaxing on the beach reading and playing in the waves. Also a some lava rock climbing to get to the “secret lava pools” and a waterfall.

At 3:30 pm we packed our things and went to the lighthouse. When we were walking towards the lighthouse people stood looking to the ocean, taking pictures. There were four whales and some dolphins. Probably Humpback whales but now they were not doing any humping. This late it is rare to see them around Hawaii. They come here to breed in December and leave in April. During that time the males don’t eat anything. Probably why they did not do any humping, to tired from not eating. Although they were far away it was a great sight.

On our way back we stopped at the Kojima store again to by kalbi for BBQing. Then a stop at Foodland to by Chris’ energy bars, at Wal-Mart in Lihue to buy some body lotion, and Big Save in Koloa to buy vegetables. And then we watched the sunset and had kalbi BBQ and salad for dinner.

On our way to the north this morning we had a change of mind. The weather forecast for the north was not so good. We decided to go to Gillin’s beach instead. It is just a dirt road away from where we stay. Ok, a Hyatt, a golf course, and a dirt road away. Arriving at Gillin’s beach we changed our mind again and continued on the dirt road for another few hundred meters and ended up at the Kawailoa bay.

At first it looked like a deserted beach with not so good possibilities to swim. However, it turned out to be quite a nice beach. Big with not so many visitors and quite nice swimming. Much better than at Gillin’s beach.

During the lunch we had a visit by a red bird. It wanted to have some chips. When it got some it just grabbed it and flew away. After a while he was back again wanting more.

After the lunch we had a walk along the beach and on a trail leading away from the beach. It was a beautiful walk along rocks, cliffs, beautiful scenery, and splashes of water.

It was really beautiful scenery. And it was the first time we went here.

We didn’t really want to return to the beach…

When we got tired to the Kawailoa bay we went to Poipu just to make sure there were no Hawaiian Monk seals there. We were lucky. One was sleeping at the Brennecke’s beach next to Poipu beach. There were also several sea turtle in the water.