The next morning we went to the airport to fly to the island of Kauai. We wanted to stay away from the crowds and this was supposed to be the island to go to to get away from the tourism. Kauai seemed to be much rainier than Oahu. Of course, there’s a place on the center of the island that is considered the wettest place on Earth as it gets more rainfall than anywhere else on the planet. Maybe that has something to do with it. We stayed on Kauai in another vacation rental near Kilauea. This was a really nice pad. The owners had a really big house back off the main highway. The rental was their guest house.
The property was situated off a dirt road backing up to a sea cliff. There was several gardens around the property. There was a trail headed down from the back of the house to a semi private beach. The only negative about the place is that there was no air conditioning. While it would get warm and muggy, it wasn’t as bad as my memories of Boy Scout Summer Camp in MS.
We spent a large amount of our time relaxing in our rental and driving around the island during our days here. On our first day, it rained (and every day as well). Wendy had read in the tour books that after a rain is a good time to go look for waterfalls as the water is running off from the rain. We headed up towards Princeville and came across this view.
We realized shortly that this side of the island is where the more affluent live. I don’t know, maybe it was the big mansion we were staying next to, but it just seemed nicer than the side of the island over by the airport. The host recommended some places to us that we found to be extremely expensive. We didn’t eat there. She did recommend one place we ate at the first night. It was called the Kilauea Fish Market. I didn’t like it too much, but Wendy liked it. I think it was too plain and healthy for me.