’19 Apr: Kauai

Last time I used yellow Plumeria and here’s the pink. Still more to come!

April 6

Here at the house there’s the spacious screened lanai along the river where we mostly hang out. It’s glorious and ever since the remodel with the screens I have not come home with a single mosquito bite.

There’s also the back garden fitted out with several holes of a miniature golf lawn and wonderful landscaping.

That’s the gate where the front and back meet.

Outside the kitchen door others enjoy this garden but I tend to stick to the screened area because behind that greenery is a slow-running channel from the river, home to the local mosquito farm.

The water lily pot that you find for sale in many markets here. This is out in the back garden too and you might think uh-oh mosquitoes, but there are a dozen little fish living in the pot.

An orchid. Orchids grow freely outside in Hawaii, on trees, in the ground, along the side of the road, in pots, they just grow.

Camas took me for this walk on the Moalepe Trail and it was beautiful! I’m just the right amount of sore this morning.

The weather was perfect for this, not so hot or sunny which is good for me!

We slowly and easily wound our way up up.

Hilahila in Hawaiian, it’s the one where the leaves curl up when you touch them, it’s shy. That’s the leaves for sure, they are the same as all the pictures, but I can’t find another picture where Hilahila has those yellow flowers. Maybe the flowers are coming from another plant?

A Marsh Pea I think.

Here’s The Turn Around Tree where we turn around. We could have continued and eventually we’d run into another road but I’m glad we turned around right here, at the exact right moment.

I forgot a picture of us (forgetting…) so here’s a picture of Camas and Curt instead.

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April 5

We’re off, first stop Spouting Horn, with a row of tchotchke shops, tons of Jungle Fowl, and this.

I wanted to stop off at Prince Kuhio Park. Prince Kuhio Day is at the end of March and here’s his memorial still covered in leis.

One of the parrots at the Grand Hyatt preening himself for his fans.

Beautiful hedges of Peace Lilies live outside in Hawaii where they can survive because it’s year-round hot and humid. Which says something about Hawaii, right.

Great timing for lunch at Brennecke’s – 15 minutes before they opened for a cooling beverage and then a window seat for lunch.

My new pixel 3xl took this picture on auto better than my new camera took it on auto, but the camera still does better for most situations.

Cup of Gold, a huge vine or pruned into a tree, it makes you look every time.

The Grand Hyatt in full bloom. Those hedged and cascading bougainvillea are completely awesome this visit.

April 4

From right outside the front door, “Anthurium, a genus of about 1000 species of flowering plants, the largest genus of the arum family, Araceae. General common names include anthurium, tailflower, flamingo flower, and laceleaf.”

Another challenge. Google thought it was milkweed but none of the other milkweed plants looked like this one.

We walked along the fantastic path that runs for seven to eight miles along the East Side coast. It’s called The Kauai Coastal path and also called Ke Ala Hele Makalae. The Hawaiian name means The Path That Goes By The Coast and we love it.

This is the Pineapple Dump.

There is an old structure here, the Pineapple Dump. I like to come here so I can say Pineapple Dump. That’s me with my hair sticking straight out.

The Pono Pineapple Company of Kapaa built that wooden ramp-like thing so that the detritus from the pineapple processing plant could be easily dumped into the ocean.

I copied this from the Kauai Surf Company:

“During Kauai’s agricultural heyday in the early to mid 1900s, a concrete pier was built by the Pono Pineapple Company of Kapaa to dump unusable portions of pineapples (crowns and skins) into the ocean. … Occasionally, unfavorable winds and currents pushed the floating debris back to Kapaa, creating a “terrible mess and foul stench” as it washed up on town beaches.”

So so many kinds of Hibiscus. This one is Hibiscus Enormicus because Sharon’s formidable hand could not reach across.

April 3

Aloha KAUAI! The Splendid Red Jungle Fowl welcomes one and all to the Garden Isle.

This year Sharon and I decided on Flowers for our focus, and here’s the iconic Hawaiian lei flower, the Plumeria. It comes in many colors which I feel confident will be represented throughout the month.

First day and we do our first day tradition of a Lydgate walk and lunch at the Olympic Café.

We have been amazed by all the people here this year so I grabbed a quick photo as a so far rare moment of a contemplative walk by the shore.

The Spider Lily often used for hedges.

One of those weeds by the side of the road…gotta find its name…probably won’t find it though.

The Olympic Café.

Opaeka’a, our neighborhood waterfall, not too full right now so it’s nice to see the layers.