Ah the islands! Relaxing and beautiful. We arrived to warmer than normal weather and lots of humidity. Because of the weather, we weren't able to hike as far as we had planned, but we had some nice ones. We saw many Nene Geese which are endangered and chickens were all over.
We had one bedroom condo unit between Kapaa and Wailua with full kitchen. This is the view from the balcony and one of the grounds.
Kiluhea Lighthouse is scheduled for a restoration. It is stained with rust and in bad shape so no pictures this time. We visited three others also.
Waimea Canyon was gorgeous. We got to the top and looked out over the Napali Coast in time to see a beautiful rainbow. We were able to duck the rain for most of the day. 
After Waimea Canyon, we stopped at Island Tacos for the best meal we had the whole trip. Sitting out on a picnic table in the sunshine, Don had Kahlua pork and I had fabulous Wasabi Seared Ahi tuna tacos. Yum. Before that settled, we found JoJo's Shaved ice. It was supposed to have the best shaved ice on the island. Since we weren't coming back to that side of the island again, we just had to stop. Reports were true, true, true. Double yum.
I particulary enjoyed sunrises. We were indeed "up with the chickens" and they were crowing!! It was very peaceful and an amazing amount of people walked out to watch the sun rise. I even got Don up one morning.
Of course, my favorite past-time in Hawaii is still snorkeling. Kauai has a great website where you can see the wave report every morning. Using this, I had a great time safely snorkeling at Poipu, Tunnels Beach, Anini Beach and Lydgate park and avoiding the 8-12 ft surf at other locations. I was lucky to be able to snorkel on both north shore and south shore since October is a transition month. The bad part was since there are storms on each shore every week or so, the water was cloudy everywhere. But the moray eel could be easily seen. :-)
