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.