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Today we headed to the north shore past the mysterious Anahola mountains. This is a very Hawaiian rural area with cattle ranches and other farms.
Just a beautiful lotus flower at a shop...
A Hawaiian Chameleon Lizard gives me a look from his perch on an old building.
The famous Kilauea Lighthouse and bird refuge. Whales from Alaska spend the winter here and the first sighting of the season was last Sunday!
Zoom lens closeup of the lighthouse.
Your truly at the entrance to the park. Its "Aloha Friday" so I had to wear a Hawaiian shirt!
Beautiful Anini Beach where you find very rare, tiny shells that are used to make jewelry. A reef off shore breaks the waves so the shoreline is calm - a real lagoon. The woman in the picture was collecting the shells; I spoke with her and she has about 10,000 of them - about the size of a grain of rice. She said finding them is very addictive!
I did not feed this cat! He was happily eating his lunch outside a shop.
A shop selling tikis! Of course, I had to buy a small one!
One of the most photographed scenes of Kauai, the Hanalei Valley overlook. Taro, the staple food of old Hawaii, is still grown in the valley to make poi. Taro grows in water, so the land also serves as a bird refuge. Most people do not like poi; it's a bit of acquired taste.
Internet Equal Access Laws forces us to publish the following dog picture since we showed a cat picture...six pomeranians in an old beatup Jeep Cherokee...