I have a lot more stuff waiting to be blogged, so I’d better finish this trip!  Here is the rest of Kaua’i in a nutshell.

On Tuesday we did a zipline, hiking, & kayaking trip on Princeville Ranch.  It was so fun!  As you can see, I was a bit bummed that they didn’t allow preggies on the zipline.  But I definitely had a good time otherwise, and the kayaking was really fun!  I’d never done that before.  Kaua’i is a great place to kayak, with all the rivers winding through dense, green jungle.

After the kayaking trip, we stopped at this lookout at the Kilauea Lighthouse and Wildlife Refuge.  It was so gorgeous!

Then, we visited this really gorgeous waterfall.  Can’t remember the name.

Wednesday morning, our last full day on the island, we woke up early and did the 4 mile round-trip hike up the Napal’i Coast to Hanakapiai beach.  It was a hard, muddy, slippery hike, but it was absolutely gorgeous and well worth the effort.  When we got to the beach, there was a monk seal lying on the sand, sleeping.  It was so neat to see that, since they are extremely endagered.  There are only an estimated 1,500 left in the world.  We didn’t swim here, because the surf is extremely dangerous.  In fact, while we were in Kaua’i, 2 people drowned here.

And to end our trip, we took a drive down to Pui’po Beach on the south end of the island.  This is supposed to be one of the best beaches in the world.  I wasn’t super-impressed, mostly because it was busier and the surf was high, so I didn’t last long on the snorkel.  But it was great snorkeling!  Not so good for boogie boarding, though.  Too rocky.  My dad and Nathan rented boogie boards, so when we were finished snorkeling we took them back to the beach right by our resort, where Nathan did an awesome job at catching waves!  Oh, and on Pui’po beach we saw our second endangered species of the day.  A huge sea turtle came up right onto the beach in the middle of all the people.  It was really neat!

All in all, a great vay-cay.  I feel like I got to see the best parts of the two islands we visited in a short time, and I can’t wait to go again and see more!