Dave & Meredith’s Travel Blog

A quick post to say that I’ve posted a gallery of pictures from Hawaii. Click here to see them. Enjoy! – Dave

As promised, the video of our helicopter tour on Kauai is finished, so…here it is for your viewing pleasure. It’s about 3 minutes long. To see the video in QuickTime format, click here for a small version (faster download) and click here for a larger version (bigger picture). Likewise for Windows Media format: click here [...]

Kauai is a gorgeous island.  It’s the oldest of the major Hawaiian islands, so its mountains are eroded by water and wind, and covered by a carpet of lush green plants. During our stay, we saw the two major landscape attractions, the Na Pali Coast and Waimea Canyon. The Na Pali Coast looks like this: [...]

We went to a luau while on Kauai.  If you’ve ever been to one, I’m sure you know what it was like – I think they’re all fairly similar in format: Arrive, tour the grounds. Imu ceremony to unearth a pig you will be eating soon. Bar opens, watered-down mai tais are served while a [...]

Here we are in a tropical paradise.  What do you think the most frequently spotted (and heard) bird is? It’s probably not what you’re thinking.  Here he is: What?  A rooster? Yep.  A lot of these guys (and gals) got loose in a big hurricane in 1992, and now there are feral roosters and hens [...]

Aloha! This is the view from the porch of the cottage we rented on Kauai this week (if you look closely, you can see a little of the ocean in the background): We stayed up above Kapa’a town on the east side of the island. – Meredith