After our visit to Waimea Canyon, we swung into Poipu to visit another of Kauai's most-photographed spots: Spouting Horn. Here, as it says when you click the link, when the surf hits the shore it's forced through one end of a lava tube and out through the other in spectacular fashion, creating water spouts that can reach 50-60 feet in the air ( Read more... )

No, the above is neither a typo nor a mistake; I didn't take very many pics on our 6th day, and as I took enough photos on day 7 for multiple posts, I decided to skip day 6 and move right on to the 7th day-especially since my first set of photos are perfect for posting on National Bird Day.

Day 7 was when we made our journey to Waimea Canyon. In ( Read more... )

Before I launch into today's smorgasbord of wave pictures, a shot I took of the beach just a little ways down from where we were staying; I intentionally framed it so the curve of the line of rocks helped highlight the curve of the shore:


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Just a couple of shots from day three of our trip; both were taken at what we call Shell Beach. In this first one, you can see from the shoreline why we chose that particular name:


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Sunrise the second morning:


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Okay, one of my new year's resolutions is to get back to posting pics more regularly. I figure there's no better way to do so than by listening to my mom, who told me I really needed to get my pictures from my last Hawaiian vacation posted before going on this year's trip in a few weeks. So, a few shots taken on my first morning there last year, ( Read more... )

A few more Kauai pictures today, taken on a somewhat overcast day when I noticed movement on the sand as I watched the ocean from our second-story lanai. I parked myself on the ground not too far from one of the freshly-dug holes that dotted the beach, and luckily the rain held off long enough for me to photograph some sand crabs-all I had to do ( Read more... )

The promised second round of photos from our day of feeding the birds while lunching at Bubba's. First up, though, a shot of a bird that hasn't yet made an appearance on my blog, but is about to get a lot of face time in this post-the Red-crested Cardinal:


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Good news: I'm posting more Hawaii pics. Bad news: while I think they're fun, they're not particularly scenic.

Whenever I'm in Kauai, one of the things on my must-do list is pay at least a couple of visits to Bubba's Burgers. The burgers won't be winning any culinary awards, but they're damn tasty and it's a fun place to hang out. We usually sit ( Read more... )

During the same visit to the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge that garnered me the whale photos I posted a while back, I also took this sequence of shots of an Albatross as it flew past me. More specifically, one of the many Laysan Albatrosses that had established a nesting colony on one of the nearby hills. Their bodies are usually less than ( Read more... )