Vacation's Over

Friday
We took time on Friday to hang out by the pool. Because the winter evenings were cool, the pool was cool too. In the afternoon we headed to the west side of the island to checkout the Waimea Canyon. We went past fields of sugar cane and coffee.

Taking some very curvy roads we climbed to the top and the mist and rain started. It was disappointing our pictures were not real clear. We've had some very good weather up to then, so we really couldn't complain.

Saturday
Our last day, and not wanting to miss out on anything, I got up before dawn to check out the sunrise over the ocean. Surprisingly, there were a number of people up at this time of the morning with exactly the same idea. We weren't disappointed, the sunrise was beautiful.

The early morning light also made for some fantastic shots.

After packing up and a little more time at the pool, we headed out for our last day. We hit some sites on the south end of the island. The National Botanical Gardens were interesting. We were too late to get on the tour to the gardens in the valley, but saw some good stuff just in their open gardens.

We headed back to take a look at the coffee fields and the Kauai Coffee visitor center. They had a self-guided tour and video. Never knew there was so much to coffee growing and milling.

Rick collects lighthouse photos from our travels so we had one more lighthouse to track down. After several attempts we finally found the right back road to get us close enough for a shot.

Hard to think about heading home to the snow and cold, but it's time to go, our Kauai vacation is done!