Day 18
A word about Chickens.
Kauai is infested with chickens. Millions of chickens. At stoplights. At rest areas. In the Costco parking lot. On the highway median. Everywhere. Roosters, hens, chicks of all sizes and colors. It's ridiculous. They crow, fortunately not at our condo. (That right is reserved for the begging sparrows, who scream once every half second from dawn to dusk.) The bass player at the bar asked that everyone just bring one chicken home to solve the problem. I don't think that would do it. They outnumber the people. Good luck with it, I'm surprised they don't trap and eat them.
There are also many wild cats on the Hawaiian Islands, and they have been around since Twain's time. I suggested to one local that they just have the cats kill the chickens, he said no, they can't do that, the chickens beat the crap out of the cats. So much for my solution.
Kauai is infested with chickens. Millions of chickens. At stoplights. At rest areas. In the Costco parking lot. On the highway median. Everywhere. Roosters, hens, chicks of all sizes and colors. It's ridiculous. They crow, fortunately not at our condo. (That right is reserved for the begging sparrows, who scream once every half second from dawn to dusk.) The bass player at the bar asked that everyone just bring one chicken home to solve the problem. I don't think that would do it. They outnumber the people. Good luck with it, I'm surprised they don't trap and eat them.
There are also many wild cats on the Hawaiian Islands, and they have been around since Twain's time. I suggested to one local that they just have the cats kill the chickens, he said no, they can't do that, the chickens beat the crap out of the cats. So much for my solution.
Woke up to cloudy skies and a little rain, but it's now clearing and looking good for a beach day. The sun is just coming out. I'm sitting outside enjoying the view and Kristen is eating leftover pizza for breakfast. Morons in the condo complex are feeding the sparrows, which just makes them scream more and beg more. It's too early for this....
We planned for the day to be a day at Poipu beach. We got there pretty early and camped on the sand and it was pretty windy - too windy for the beach umbrella. We hung out and watched, and it looked like the famous Poipu Beach had lost a lot of its sand, probably in Hurricaine Iniki in 1996, and never regained it. Too rocky and too windy. We gave up.
We planned for the day to be a day at Poipu beach. We got there pretty early and camped on the sand and it was pretty windy - too windy for the beach umbrella. We hung out and watched, and it looked like the famous Poipu Beach had lost a lot of its sand, probably in Hurricaine Iniki in 1996, and never regained it. Too rocky and too windy. We gave up.
o we decided to kind of do the plan for another day, which was the beaches past Waimea on the south cozst. When we got there it also was windy and the surf looked a little unfriendly. We proceeded down the coast and it got really deserted; this had been sugar country until the company abandoned ship and the area became depressed, in the 70s or 80s I think.So it was back to Waimea for lunch at Barefoot Burgers, where Kristen and I were indeed barefoot in swimsuits and no one cared. The owner said it wasn't really a good swim day. So after burgers we headed to Salt Pond Park.
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Many locals had brought their tents, grills, etc. to the park for their 4th of July picnics. The beach was swimmable due to an offshore reef, but not particularly attractive (for Hawaii). We hung out about 2 hours then left to go back to the southern portion of the Waimea Canyon drive, where we ran out of camera battery the other day.
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The drive was just as nice the second time around and we took lots of pictures of the canyon and views.
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More shave ice at JoJos, then back home to get ready for the luau.
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The best on the island is supposedly at Smith's, around an hour's drive away, so we opted for the one at the Sheraton, about a 3 minute drive. It was ok in a kitschy way. Kristen liked it. And the food was really good for luau buffet food - I had a bunch of different dishes and all were good except one. The Ahi Poke was the best I've had, and I had a salmon ceviche type thing that was also excellent.
The dancers were ok in a cruise ship kind of way. The highlight was the fire dancer guy from Samoa; he was funny and had a personality as he interacted with the audience. He was eating fire and spinning the batons, but also had a sense of humor. He was telling people in the front "come on, work with me here". We did also have unlimited MaiTais and other drinks and it was pretty good overall. We sat across from a black family and it looked like Dad was a pro football player, with a 1/2 pound gold watch, gold earring and bracelet and necklace, and all the latest electronic toys for all the family, etc. Day 19 >>> |