Waimea, Why Not'a Me'a

We are on our Hawaiian vacation. We left Portland at 6:00am on Saturday morning for San Francisco. Our flight to San Francisco was delayed for 4 hours but we finally made it to Honolulu by mid afternoon. We then caught our flight to Kauai and arrived at 6:00pm. We arrived too late at the hotel to do anything so we crashed early and then got up "early" on Sunday morning. We walked the beach and then headed to our resort in mid afternoon. The hotel was fantastic. We were upgraded to a suite that overlooked the ocean and the pool.

We headed to our resort and drove up the coast to the nearest beach. It is great and the views and beaches are fantastic!

We spent Monday snorkeling. We didn't get any photos but had a great time. Mom was scared that a shark was going to eat her but she survived and had a great time. Dad got suncreen in his eyes while snorkeling and had a hard time seeing. However, we had a great time and were totally worn out at the end of the day.

Tuesday we spend going to Waimea Canyon. It is second only to the Grand Canyon in depth, 3500 feet deep. We drove up to 4000 feet and hiked around a bit. We spent most of the day doing this. Also, we were able to see Mount Waialeale. It is the wettest place on the earth and gets over 450 inches of rain per year. It rained on us while we were there. We couldn't go to Mount Waialeale but we could see it. We see it every day and there is a always a cloud on top of it. There are 27 different climates on Kauai, from desert to unbelievable amounts of rain. We also saw one waterfall, well, two waterfalls, they were side by side.

On the highway coming back, we saw where the surf was so rough that it was splashing on the highway.

We have more snorkeling to do and waterfalls to see. More to follow.