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| Heading west of Lihue, there is a 'Tunnel of Trees ' on the way to the south coast. |
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| Lawai beach |
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| The new posting system seems to put all photos in the 'landscape' position. This is the Spouting Horn where huge waves hit the lava rock shore, flow into a cave and spout up 30 feet in the air. |
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| The road up the west side shows the iron rich red soil. |
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| The Grand Canyon of Hawaii. |
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| Wai'ale'ale is a 5000 ft. mountain.It gathers rain clouds and pours streams down the valleys to produce impressive water falls. The mountain has a record of 52 ft. of rainfall in a year - the wettest place on earth. |
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| At 4000 ft. you can look out to the north west and down to the Napali Coast. |
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| Everywhere on the island, Hibiscus grow. |
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| This little fellow looked like our blue jays ... maybe a colourful cousin? |
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The ridges are rugged with eroded rock layers. |
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| There is a museum at the top with an excellent bookstore. |
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| Petroglyphs have been fount in the area. |
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| More chickens & roosters! They have become the unofficial bird of Kaua'i. A hurricane in 1992 blew chicken coops apart and they now inhabit the whole island! |
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| The view from the top. |
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| Around a corner, a view down to a military facility. |
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| Captain Cook landed in 1772, in the harbor of Waimea . The signs say he 'discovered' Hawaii. I think the native people discovered it first! |
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| Ruins of a Russian Fort built 1816. It was named Fort Elizabeth after the wife of Czar Alexander I of Russia. |
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| The rock is local, red volcanic. |
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| Kauai'i is also the Garden Island and the Island of Rainbows. |
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| A little town that is being developed by the residents as a tourist town. |
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| An old theater awaits renovation. |
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| An amazing little bookstore. |
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| Friday night and the galleries are open. Musicians wander the street. There is a great little bakery that only serves dinner on Friday (reservations needed) and an on street barbeque. |
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| I get the feeling that the Children of Peace reside here. It appears to be from the era of hippies and has all sorts of wonderful things for big & little kids to explore. |
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| This cat lay in the doorway of a store ... so that all who walked by would pet him. |
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| A beautiful sunset on Barking Sands Beach, in the NW. |
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