Walking to the End of the Trail

We walked the beach to the end of the trail -- probably 3 miles or so. Fabulous!  These little plovers are everywhere -- they actually fly from Hawaii to the Arctic non-stop to nest. How do they fly hundreds of miles without food or rest!

 Sea turtles all along the way.

Friday at the West Shore

Friday morning we walked down the trail by the condo and saw a couple of sea turtles eating sea weed in the surf. This was the first time we saw turtles on Kaua'i. They don't seem to be as prevalent as on O'ahu. Then we headed for a little souvenior shopping and the West Shore beaches that we hadn't seen. Stopped at Jo Jo's for another shave ice but they were way too crowded so we tried the "original" Jo Jo's just around the corner -- not sure what that's about. But it was actually much nicer inside and the shave ice was great. We walked out on the pier and sat down to enjoy our treat.

We had heard that Polihale beach was awesome so we headed there. It truly is the end of the road -- actually 4-1/2 miles past the end of the paved road. I didn't read that carefully enough until we were about a mile down the bumpiest dirt road in the world. I was seriously getting car sick from being tossed around by all of the pot holes. We gave up and went to the next to the last beach which was beautiful and saw miles of sand dunes.

We stopped at Roy's for our last dinner on the island -- I had to try their Salmon and Butter fish - awesome and Kevin had their MahiMahi...which was pretty good as well.

We've had a fabulous time here. A great vacation. Wow!