April 11 Kauai Again

This morning we got up and got into our car and went the opposite way on the island.  Our first stop was the Kilauea Lighthouse which is located on a 200-foot peninsula.  The area is now the home of the Kalauea Point National Wildlife Refuge.  It was built in the early  1900's to guide ships traveling between the West Coast and Asia.  It contains the world's largest clam shell-shaped lens. 

As we continued down the road we stopped at an overlook and saw the most beautiful layout of fields.

 I tried hard to take a picture of workers in a taro field.  If you look carefully you will find them.

 

It seemed that everything we saw on that island was beautiful.

One of the very interesting things for me was that there were chickens running wild on every island at almost every stop. 

We were early getting back to the ship and walked the two or three blocks over to a public beach.  There are so many beautiful beaches in Hawaii. 

We had to return to the ship early as it was going up above the island to let us see the Na Pali Coast.

We had only been sailing for a while and Mike and I were standing on deck 6 and I was asked to move.  They were starting to prepare a life boat to go of the boat and into the ocean.  We found out that they had spotted an overturned boat so they turned the ship around and sent the lifeboat out to check out the situation.  It was really neat to be right there where it was happening.  First we saw them climb into it, then they lowered it, then they took off across the water, dealt with the empty ship and put a transmitter on it and then came back to the boat and were lifted up.  We were right there when it happened.  We heard the captain tell the men to get the coordinates so that they could send it to the coast guard to take care of it. 

The ship turned around again and we headed on along the Na Pali Coast.  The following are just some of the many, many pictures that I took along the coast.  

It was getting dark as the ship made a loop back down the eastern side of the island and on its way to Honolulu.