Walk November 15, 2012

Today we did a Ladd's addition and warehouse Portland walk in leaves, some dry some are turning to mush. Foggy and dry was the weather. Take a look at a couple pried of today.

Tuesday walk

Today Sam, Emory and I walked from Kenton district on Denver to PIR and Delta Park golf course across the bridge at the, hold your nose, sewer plant. Actually it has zero odor and while crossing the bridge I spied this spider web in the damp fog. How do they do this?

Home

We are home but already are missing the warm tropical winds an even the rains. The trip home was very good except no jet stream wind to speed us along. It took an additional 15 minutes because of that. We were lucky enough to have a great sunset at 37,000 feet! Hope you like it also.

Leaving Kaua'i, Hawaii

Well, our time has come to leave this paradise. We've had a great time. Would you believe it but it rained so hard sandbags were put out at
the hotel lobby and the swimming pool was overflowing.
We are at the Lihue airport now waiting
for our flight to Honolulu.
Someday we may get back to this area. I am going to post some pictures of some flowers that in our area we ca only dream of and of course another chicken. The chickens were released in 1992 during a hurricane. Many thousands wander freely on all places.

Friday, our last full day

We woke up to a heavier rain than we have seen this week and we have had heavy rain, at times all week. This was a real drencher. Sandbags at the lobby of the Marriott Waiohai Beach entry to keep the lobby dry. What a nice week of vacation in spite of rain we've had.
Today Bob and Dorothy wanted to just lay back so Dar and I went to Koloa Town. Lunch was some of the best and fish and chips. Huge pieces of mahi-mahi, thick and delicious. when we got back Bob and Dorothy were ready to snorkel so off we went. Saw many of the same types of fish but a couple new ones also.
Dinner was at a restaurant very near
our timeshare unit.
We have most things packed and ready for departure. See you all very soon.

One thing I have forgotten to mention are all the chickens that are all over the island. We even saw them at 4000 foot level of Waimea Canyon. All they want is a handout of anything edible, if nothing is offered they seek out another pigeon. Pun was intended. We have them on our deck and on chairs all the time.

Rain

Still waiting for the rain to STOP!

Captured fish on camera

I have been using Anna's Fuji underwater camera. It's hard to get really good pictures because the fish are more agile than my body and much faster. I did find though that just laying on the surface and let the fish come to me worked fairly well. Here are some of my favorites........

One of the pictures is not really a fish!

Addition to Thursday

Picture of octopus and picture of gigantic cruise ship...z

A 20 mile trip to Kapaa. Thursday

We drove to Kapaa to find our friends condo right on the beach. We walked down to the ocean and found a snorkeler coming in with a octopus in his bag.....then on to the best pizza place. Brick oven..
Then onto Costco and home...time for snorkeling. Hot tubbing, and sketching.

Waimea Canyon. Elevation 4,000 feet

We drove about 20 miles to the canyon to find most of the views socked in with fog. It rained the whole trip, on the way down we found a great chili and cornbread place.

Drove on down to the town of Waimea
And found. The Shrimp Station Ed
told us about...coconut shrimp for dinner.
Found another farmers market to purchase mangos, pineapples, etc.

Tuesday sunset cruise

Many problems uploading. We had a wonderful dinner cruise. The weather held and we had very little rain. It is raining every day hard very hard.

Tuesday November 1st

Pictures underwater snorkling yesterday and market fruit plus the rain today. The photographer is also pictured.

More adventures

Today, Halloween, we are on day three. We went to starbucks for cocoanut latte and oatmeal. After that we went to the sunshine market in koloa. Bought home grown bananas, papayas cucumber avacodo and some other items. Back to the small poipu shop center for a puka dog with cocoanut relish and lemonade. Back
At our place now to snorkle again. Saw a all turtle yesterday but hope to see more today. Chickens are everywhere
They escaped during a hurricanes years ago.

Poipu --- we are here

You like? We are very happy here.
The trip was uneventful and this place is wonderful. We are at dinner sitting under palm trees and tiki torches about 100 feet or less from the ocean. D

Honolulu

We are in honolulu