Gorgeous, eh?
Jurassic Park was filmed here.
You can almost see the dinosaurs.
We (Wis, Franco, Roy, Yumi, Michelle, Toru, & I) rented a lovely 4-bedroom house on the southern side of Kauai. It was next to a golf course and was surrounded by chickens...
...and very close to Poipu Beach!
The beaches on Kauai remind me of Okinawa, which is about as high a compliment as I can come up with. Okinawa was my first beach experience. After that came Long Island Sound (cold, gray, awful), then New England (moderately pretty but freezing), San Francisco (pretty, but freezing and shark-infested), San Diego (warm but lots of Tijuana sewage), and Florida (warm but lots of tourists and giant mice).
Kauai's beaches had perfect sand, and the water was BLUE, the way it's supposed to be.
Yumz, Franco, Stew, Wendy, & Gabe bravely decide to try surfing.
The rest of us stay behind to document the carnage.
This is Sparky, the surfing instructor.
Yumi said he was a good teacher.
But Stew looks confused here.
Franco, however, is a natural.
On land, at least.
So here they go...
...and here they are, afterwards.
No one died! I call that a success.
We were all impressed.
Onto the snacks...
Koloa Fish Market!
A tiny deli-type place that serves plate lunches.
We all get our food and go back to out house.
I get the ahi with wasabi cream sauce and pork & gravy.Served, of course, with mac salad and two scoops of rice.
The ahi is fabulous, but the pork's not as salty or as good as Wisa's mom would make.
Look at this giant piece of fat.Hey, fat is where the flavor is. This is why all the food here tastes so good.
(I didn't eat that piece, though. Ugh.)
Lappert's Ice Cream!
Awesome Kona coffee ice cream...
...and guava sorbet.
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