Walk along the beach

We took a walk out to the point to see if we could see where the fire was. From the top we couldn't see it. We thought it would be fun to see the sandy beach on the other side so we walked down to Gillin's Beach. After several hours in the sun, we enjoyed sitting in the shade by this pond.
The sunrise was spectacular.
We thought we should see what we could find beyond the next point. We walked to the next beach and across the little river. The Maha'ulepu Beaches are really sandy so we didn't need our reef shoes...good thing because we didn't have them. We didn't actually have anything because we were just going for a little walk. No sunblock, no water, no towels but what a great time. I thoroughly enjoyed walking in the surf. What a great beach.

When we got to the point just before Kawailoa Bay it was all roped off. A woman with the State of Hawaii was there protecting a monk seal and her 8 day old pup. She had binoculars and we could see the mom and her pup. Only 1200 monk seals are known to exist -- this is the 4th pup born this summer on Kaua'i and we were blessed to be able to see it.

Since we'd been out in the sun for 3 hours, we decided to walk the dirt road back. We discovered the section of the old plantation (right next to the stables and Po'ipu Road and Po'ipu Bay Resort Golf Course) that had burned.

We had a fabulous dinner at TidePools - had a window table (but there are no windows) and watched the koi in the pond below. They were jumping totally out of the water and we got splashed at our table a bit. The sunset slowly and we enjoyed crab cakes, Ono and Opah.