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Waimea Canyon

We moved for the last few days of our trip to a condo that was in PoiPu. This gave us a more touristy view of the island. It was dryer on this part of the island too. We came to this side of the island, not only for the sights, but to be close to Waimea Canyon. This is like the Grand Canyon of the Pacific. Jay and I flew across it on our helicopter ride, but this was our chance to explore it first hand. We drove up the canyon and stopped at each look out point. Holy cow, it was breath taking. The views from the top down over the Na'Pali Coast, were breathtaking and were areas we had seen on our raft trip a few days before. It was so interesting to see them from this angle. It was so beautiful.

At one point, we could see this huge waterfall and people walking on this ledge toward it. We had a hike planned to the top of an 800 foot waterfall and when I saw them hiking on this ledge, I really hoped that was NOT our hike. I was nervous. However, once we were on our hike, I discovered that it was. I will post more about that hike in the next post. It was a hike of a life time and deserves its own post. 

We had a picnic in a great park in the canyon. It was so fun. We even saw chickens in the canyon. There were chickens all over this island and in the weirdest places. The drive was beautiful and we had fun seeing places where certain movies were filmed like 6 Days and 7 Nights (we watched this the first day in Kauai so it was fun to see the places in real life.)

The views of the canyon were awesome and it was fun to see the helicopter tours flying around. Jay and I tried to get a picture together at one of the view points, but Alex tried to photobomb. Once he got in on the action, then the girls did too. It ended up being a squeeze mom and dad photo op with Austin holding the camera encouraging the mayhem. The kids were all over in our shots and we never got one alone together. Oh well. It was a good laugh. The kids were hot so we got them a refreshing drink of coconut milk right out of the coconut. There was a great fruit stand at one of the look out points. It was really fun being in the car together. We found a song that we dedicated as our Kauai Christmas Vacation Theme Song. We played it every time we were in the car. It was awesome and we had so much fun singing and being together. Alex brought a straw hat with him, but during the trip it got broken so he pulled the rim off. The boys thought they were so funny only wearing the top part of the hat. They took turns wearing it. There are pictures below. We loved the flowers and beauty. It was a good day. Once we had stopped at all the lookouts, we drove down to the one where our hike started. We spent the next 3-4 hours doing the hike. The next post will be about that. 




Photo of me taking a photo of the kids taking a selfie.


Jay tries his hand at a selfie. He needs more work.






That waterfall at the top of my head is the one we hiked to the top of. When we were looking at it from here, we did not realize that is what we were going to do. When we did realize it, I think we all got a little nervous. It seemed so high.








Closer look of the waterfall we hiked too. The red ledge there on the left is where the path was. Seeing it from that view point we thought those hikers were crazy. We would never do that. Funny when we found out it was our hike.


The mayhem begins with the parent photobomb.....




Alex didn't think he was in it enough so he walked closer to the camera. I think there were about 15 more shots of the kids "ruining" our picture.





I was getting squeezed so hard and Jay was tired of the wildness so he decides to walk off. So much for a photo.



















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Golda Cristine said…
That looks spectacular! I love your family!
March 19, 2016 at 10:07 PM
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