
| As a combination wedding anniversary, honeymoon, and Father's Day, we decided to take a trip to the island of Kauai, the northernmost and oldest of the inhabited Hawaiian Islands. Kauai is known as "The Garden Island" and is famous for it's Na Pali Coast, the northern coast of the island which is comprised of sheer cliffs of incredible beauty. It is also know for Waimea Valley, "The Grand Canyon of the Pacific", according to Mark Twain. Robin lived here for 5 years ending some 10 years ago. Most of the pictures I shot were of a higher resolution (8 megapixels) than what I usually shoot (3 megapixels) with corresponding larger file sizes. Therefore, I'm offering smaller images. If you want bigger versions, let me know. I realize that even the "small" is sometimes a pretty good sized file, but I really don't want to make them any smaller because you just can't get the effect of many of the images unless you see them at a respectable size. The problem with taking pictures is that you are "funneling" your view into the capacity of your lens width. So these vast panoramic views are not done justice with a camera. I've experimented a little with shooting in video mode, but even that limits the view to what the camera can see at any given time. Some of the images have been enhanced a bit to improve the color. Images with an "a" at the end of the filename, or in front of "med" and "sm" have been adjusted. This applies to previous pages as well. |
| Next comes Molokai. That's Lanai at the bottom of the picture |
| And that's Honolulu on Oahu coming up. We landed there to dump off passengers, then continued on to Lihue on Kauai |
| The airport with Diamond Head in the background |
| Zebra Dove |
| Cardinal, of course! |
| Common Myna |
| This is basically the "foothills" of Waimea Canyon. |
| Imagine living here |
| The waterfall in the distance is called Moeloa Falls, I think. |
| This is the north end of Maui |
| Friday-Sunday, June 16-18, 2006 |
| Friday, June 16, 2006 |
| First, a quick tour of the islands as we fly north. This is the south end of Maui |
| Maui |
| Upon arriving in Lihue, we stopped and ate lunch at an open-air restaurant where there were lots of birds. |
| than the chickadee. I have to get a better bird book! |
| The island in the distance is Ni'ihau. It is owned entirely by the Robinson family and you can't go there! |
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