Skijoring 2017 So, every year, for the first weekend of March, Leadville hauls all the snow they been taking off the streets during the winter back to the main drag to hold the annual Skijoring event. The main street is shut down from Thursday night until Sunday...
The Protection of Her Wings Another of the birds that were there were the chickens. Wild chickens are all over the island of Kauai. Apparently it is because of a tropical storm in the 90’s that broke cages and turned them loose, so they are now too many to...
The Proud Peacock Of course, at the Smith Farm, there were other things to see as well. We wished that we would have had time to look around more, but we got there a little late after our river trip, so we didn’t have time to see all there was to see. There were...
Colorful Costumes So many of the countries that went to Kauai were represented by people in colorful clothes. They all had their type of dance, song and costume. This is just one of those and I can’t recall which was which, but, they were all very active and...
The Beautiful Dance After the feast, we took a stroll to their outdoor amphitheater to watch their show. It turns out that the island of Kauai is made up of many different cultures. I had assumed it was all influenced by the Polynesian culture, but it turns out that...
Gooooood Food!!! Our luau was at a place call Smith Farms. We took a river boat ride up the Wilua River and then came back and spent the evening feasting on their luau and watching some good entertainment. It was a good night and the food was so good. It included Maji...
The Call to a Festival In “The Islands” there are many different customs that have come down through time. One of these is the call to a festival event. It is always done through blowing through a conch shell. It sounds like a horn and is heard far and...
Calla Lily At one of our stops on the Waimea Canyon road, we found this flower. It is a calla lily. Although it is not native to Kauai, it was growing wild at our stop and I just loved the bloom with its yellow center and white trumpet. It was lovely to see and...
Waipoo Falls – Waimea Canyon Waimea Canyon is called the Grand Canyon of the Pacific. Now, I’ve been to the Grand Canyon and it is truly an amazing place and an awesome sight. However, to see this canyon on a small island (about 560 square miles) is also...
View from the Top Staying on that side of the island (west) and in that area, here is a view looking down over the Na Pali Coast and over the Pacific from the Wai’ Ale’ Ale’ lookout. This was our first full day there and the weather was a bit stormy....
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