2011-Feb. 20: Lawai

Today was a real gully washer day most of the day. It started out just overcast, but rained all afternoon/evening. I had heard about a "Dinosaur" volleyball tournie, so we went to check it out at Kalapaki BAy in the morning. The ages of the men on the 2-man teams had to equal 80 years old or more and the women's 2 person teams' ages had to equal 70 years old or more. As an avid volleyball player, I enjoyed watching them, although they were far from being "dinosaurs!" I did take some pictures and put them on the Dinosaur facebook page. We even chatted with one of the players for quite awhile (Kalani Vierra). In the conversation, it came up that he is also a Kauai fireman, lifeguard, and world champion tandem surfer. We mentioned we watched and took pictures of a tandem surfing team a few years ago at Lawai. It turned out it was him and his partner practising.
Picture of Kalani and his partner practising in 2007:

Since sunset was out of the question, we stuck around the east side. Even went to another happy hour restuarant in the same shopping center as the Lihue Kalapaki Joe's. I forget the name of it now, but it advertised $.99 beers and happy hour dinner specials. The dinner special was fish and chips and it was very good, unfortunately Ken had to order something else since they ran out of fish with my meal. Good thing we got there early!

Back at the condo, we watched a spectacular lightening show until just after midnight.