Look who I found in the Admiral’s Club/Qantas Club in Honolulu… It’s the Qantas kids as the background for the computer. 🙂

This place has amazing sandwiches and fruit smoothies…. Yummy Kalihiwai Creamsicle and Tunnels Treat!

Our last day, and our last hike up the Okolehao Trail to an overlook of Hanalei and surrounds. It was a tough hike with really steep grades, but so beautiful at the top!

A couple of days ago we stopped off at the Kauai Coffee Company Visitor Center. We took a self-guided tour of “How Coffee is Made” and tasted a bunch of their coffee blends.
I love finding unique visitor centers to visit while on vacation. 🙂
There’s a pineapple plantation here too, but it’s center has been “temporarily closed” since we got here.

Another hike today, a couple miles up to a picnic area, then down to a bridge with a sign saying it was the end if the trail and the beginning of the connecting trail.

This is Waipo’o Falls on the Canyon Trail up in Waimea Canyon. We hiked there yesterday and the trail was amazing! We hiked right along the edge of this HUGE canyon and it was just a amazing. We also stopped at the lookout points on the drive to the top, one of which had a big family of mountain goats scampering over the hillside. That was cool!

We brought along some new art supplies to try out in our vacation… Colored pencils, oil pastels, and some paints and small canvas. We each have a new sketch book as well, and we’ve had a great time drawing scenes by the pool, at the beach, and (as seen below) in our room. Rainbow Bear knows how to strike a pose!

We are up on this trail right now, and this is one of the spectacular views of the town below and the ocean. It’s gorgeous!

This is part of the view from our room here in Kauai. That’s the ocean out there… And our “grotto” pool and poolside cafe.
It’s nice and warm here. We spent yesterday driving north from Lihue to the end of the road at Kee Beach. We shopped for some snacks at Foodland and signed up for their Maika’i loyalty rewards card to save money on future snack trips.
Today we’ll head south to Poipu and see what’s to see down there. I think we’ll start in with some hiking tomorrow. 🙂
We’re having a great time!!!

See the palms behind us? And the sun shining on our faces? We’re here and rested and ready to explore.
Kauai… Here we come!