Kauai part 1

Well I would love to use the words, hot, sunny, and all those summer words to describe the first part of my trip but that was not the case. It was warm, but it was also rainy....very rainy, some locals said it only rained as much as it did during huricanes.

Our trip started out as an adventure, with planes not being on time and missing flights and getting put on different flights and all sorts of stuff, to top it all off, both laura and I were missing our luggage....what fun. (see her blog to learn more about the luggage fun).

Anyway we made out ok with out all of our luggage for the first two days. We camped went on hikes and hoped the rain would stop. it was hard to go see what we wanted to see, because the water in the streams was so high and dirty that the waterfalls weren't the best for viewing, and all the hikes were supposed to have awesome views. but you can't get many views when it is cloudy and foggy, don't get me wrong, it was beautiful and we had a great time, but we were just waiting for the rain to stop.

so did it stop stay tuned for the next post.

here are some pictures from the start of our trip


Kipu Falls: there were people here jumping off the top of these falls, and then they would use the ladder to climb up....laura and I thought about it, but it started raining and the water felt pretty chilly.

View of Ninini Point from running waters beach...we were the only ones on this beach because it is kind of hidden...notice the dark clouds coming in....we left when the downpour came.



Laura looking at Ho'op'i falls. We were going to go on a longer hike that day but decided it might be hard to cross some of the streams that we on the hike since the water seemed high. We learned that that the dirt there gets really slippery when wet..... i had an adventure getting down a hill to these falls...but I didn't fall just had to run.


Our campsite at Anni beach...it was a pretty cool beach. we stayed here quite a few nights. The campground isn't like campgrounds here, you just go to certian beaches and just put your tent up wherever you want. There are many beach folk that try to live at these campgrounds, but we learned that they get kicked out quite often.