The Hawaiian Gods are not smiling on us….the streak of losing things on vacation continues. This time, Suzanne dropped the car keys somewhere between the beach and the hotel room. So, that means a run out to the airport to get a new set of keys from Hertz, a pretty hefty lost key charge, and instead of heading north to hike the day turns into a beach/hotel day……
So, there aren’t a whole lot of pictures of the surroundings in this post. The wind had died down some, so, the beach umbrella was a lot more stable. The weather is still a little wacky, we sat through a 15 minute rain shower on the beach today (that did a good job of turning a crowded beach into a very sparsely populated beach). And everyone had a good time snorkeling. Saw a lot of fish……
The first five pictures here are from the new waterproof camera…what I wanted for Christmas. Need to look at the camera more and figure out how to use all the features…..did a pretty good job just trying to see what would happen.
Most of these pictures are from the first day of snorkeling….the battery in this camera then died and we had to switch to the older waterproof camera.
Obviously one thing I need to figure out if the newer camera has a underwater filter or mode like the older camera does…
Matthew took a lot of these pictures, as always, the boy loves to swim and snorkel. Cpher had a great time snorkeling as well, and he hasn’t been that into it in the past…
Suzanne came out the last time we went into the water….I think she finally got used to the make and snorkel and saw a lot of fish with Matthew and I
No turtles, no really large fish….but Kauai isn’t really the island for snorkeling either. No complaints here though, it is very cool that we can just walk out of the room to the beach and see a large number of fish…
After several trips to the water, we came back to the room for some down time. Headed out to the ‘shopping village’ right across the street and then headed over to the Grand Hyatt
Did I mention there are roosters and chickens everywhere? EVERYWHERE.
pulled up the camera and hit click while we were waiting for Mom to complete her purchase….
this boy had a moment of warning….Kevin would have ducked away…
Oh yeah, we also went out to Spouting Horn before heading over to the Hyatt…
the attraction here is these two lighter colored areas where they surf, which goes under the lava flows, comes up through the rocks in giant sprays…
Wasn’t able to get a really good picture of it though…
The Hyatt is definitely the best resort on this side of the island…man, it went on forever and had some huge pools….definite resort envy. May have to really consider coming back here some time…
We came over here to see the torchlighting and hula dancing show that they have on Saturdays….was ok, had a drink or two and walked around, a pleasant enough way to spend an evening.
