Kaua'i

Our final stop this trip was Kaua'i. We spent 2 and a half days here, and it definitely wasn't enough. Kaua'i is breathtakingly beautiful!

After renting a trusty 4-wheel drive jeep, we headed up Waimea Canyon.

While up in the canyon we were introduced to the favorite bird of Kaua'i (and throughout our trip we were re-introduced and re-introduced again and again and again...)

On the morning of our second day we headed to Lyndgate Beach Park to try out snorkeling for the first time.

James took to snorkeling like a fish, but I had a much harder time not panicking every time I put my face in the water. James liked it so much he 1) didn't want to leave (even when the rain started POURING), and 2) snorkeled each night in the pool at the hotel. We saw all kinds of fish (mostly these small white ones) and some honu while snorkeling.

I think my favorite place on the island was Hanalei, even though it was rainy, rainy, rainy the entire time we were there. I guess you need all that rain to make it that green and that beautiful. =) Blow is a photo of a very striking church there on the main road.

On our last day we hiked along the amazing Makewehi Lithified Cliffs on the south end of the island. When on the edge of the cliff you could look down and over to see many birds who had nested in the holes of the cliff wall, as well as many crazy black crabs running all over the place!