Travel Day: Kaua'i to Ohau

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After breakfast we check-out of the Aloha Beach Hotel and do the luggage thing. At this point, we are quite eficent with luggage and everyone knows their job. Once again, luggage is loaded through the rear Emergency Door of our Yellow School Bus. Now, we're off to the National Tropical Botanical Garden. On the way we stop to view Opaeka'a Falls and the river it flows into.

What a beautiful garden this is, starting with a banana blossom full of fruit! We see many Hibiscus colors, and other favorites. Judy & Darrell and Del & Jane pose for us behind a hedge of colorful flowers. John and I find some lovely earings for Sara in the gift shop here. After much picture taking we're on our way to Spouting Horn

What is Spouting Horn? In the lava rock that goes into the sea there is an old lava tube that is open to the ocean waves. When a wave rushes in, you can hear the water moving in the lava tube. Then it acts like a blow hole and spouts up white foam and spray. It is quite dramatic. I could watch the waves all day. We have our picnic lunch here at the picnic tables, with the usual bathroom break. Then Lenore ( our school bus driver) drives us to Lihu'e airport, we say Aloha and Mahalo to Lenore, and we unload to get checked in for our flight to Ohau

We find the plane flight is a good chance to snooze. Upon arrival at Honolulu air port, a Polynesian Hospitality Coach is waiting for us to take us into our hotel. We all find the seats much more comfortable than our Yellow School Bus - as much as we appreciated our good driver, Lenore. Riding through the industrial section and downtown Honolulu, we can see and feel that we're back in the big city now. More traffic and more people makes us realize just how lovely Kaua'i was. We arrive at the Queen Kapiolani Hotel in Waikiki and do our usual unload/ check-in thing.

Later when we meet for dinner in our dinning area, we are served our meal. After dinner, Susan gives us our second Hula lesson. A few more people sit out this time, but we have fun and Susan says we're getting better. I ask her when are we going to "perform" this Huki Lau Hula. She says there's no performance planned. Ha!

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Photos

Opaeka Falls
a double falls

Queen Kaploiani Hotel
We check-in