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Scenes From Kauai, Hawaii 1999 (A few may be from Waikiki Beach. But I bet if I didn't tell you, you'd never know which!)
Kilauea Lighthouse |
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Scenes From Kauai, Hawaii 1999 (A few may be from Waikiki Beach. But I bet if I didn't tell you, you'd never know which!)
Kilauea Lighthouse |
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 This
was the view from the back deck of our condo in Princeville,
Kauai. Every day we sat and watched the whales play. This
picture doesn't do the scenery justice. |
This
is Spouting Horn. Yet another scene that the picture doesn't do
justice. A gazillion years ago, when the lava spilled into the
ocean, an air pocket formed in the cooling lava leaving a pipe that goes
all the way through the rock. When the waves hit the rock, water
gets pushed up through the pipe, spraying water a couple hundred feet in
the air and making a huge sound like a whale spouting but about 50 times
louder. While we were there, we overheard a woman telling her
husband that it was a live volcano while she was standing right next to
the historic plaque and getting sprayed by the ice cold water from the
spouting. We couldn't figure out if they were complete idiots or
if this was one of those rare, misplaced arctic volcanoes that you read
about in the National Enquirer.
This
picture shows that you can take the girl out of Seattle, but you can't
take the Seattle out of the girl. Here I am, lounging in the sun
on the balcony of our hotel on Waikiki Beach, and drinking a Starbucks
Mocha Frappuccino. I don't think that's actually getting away from
it all on vacation seeing that about 40% of my work is obtaining permits
to open new Starbucks stores.