2009-March 8: Kileaua lighthouse, Anini, East side

Almost all packed and getting ready to leave. I looked outside and what did I see?!---some sunshine!

Not sure what we'll do today. Our flight isn't until 9pm. We do get a courtesy hour here at KBV from 5-6, so we may still take in some more snorkeling.

But first, off to Kountry Kitchen.

Then to the East side walking trail

 kealia beach

Back to finish up this 2009 Kauai Blog------

The weather was beautiful (for the most part) on our last day in Kauai. We decided to head up to Anini, stopping in Kilauea for a few photos by the lighthouse. Again, found a cute sign.

It was a beautiful day for snapshots of the lighthouse from the lookout. We even saw a couple whales spouting from a distance.

Also enjoyed watching the red-footed boobies and even a few frigates. Here I caught them in fligh and lounging.

Then we were on to Anini for our last snorkel fix.   Out to the rocky area to the right of the big parking lot we found quite a few fish. At one point, I was just drifting along and happened upon a large brown eel. Shocked me at first as I was almost on top of it before I looked that direction and saw it.  Too bad my underwater camera wasn't working anymore.

About then the skies started clouding up at Anini so we swam back to shore and headed back to the East side.

We had heard if you throw you lei into the ocean and it comes back, you'll return. So we've made that a little tradition of ours--although we just throw the flowers in, not the string. Here we are on the East side by where the Wailua River meets the ocean. There was lots of brown water there, but still saw plenty of surfers out in it. We made sure we threw the flowers in an area where the waves brought the petals back to shore.

From there we went back to the condo and hung out at the pool and jacuzzi until time for our courtesy hour.

After our hour at the condo, we were off to gas up the car, grab a quick McDonald's, drop off the car, and check in at the airport. We got there with plenty of time to spare and started our long trip back home.

The flight to LAX was on time and went by rather quickly. The 3 1/2 hour wait in LAX for our STL flight seemed to take forever. The 3 hour flight to STL from LAX was on time and rather quick, too.