We're in Hawaii! How exciting. But the process of getting here was exhausting, and our bodies are definitely not yet used to our new time zone. Hawaii is three hours earlier than Portland, so when the clock here says it's 8:00 p.m., our bodies are still inclined to feel like it's 11:00 p.m.
Today we did a bit of exploring of Kapa'a Town. We drove down the hill to the highway. Basically most of the island is circled by a single highway, which runs along the coast. In Kapa'a the coast is lined by beaches and parks and a multiuse path, which we walked south along.
We came upon a competition swimming pool, in sight of the ocean; it turned out to be a free public pool. Apparently all of the beaches and land belong to the public. They are used for public services like the public library.
A bit farther along was a beach with a sign that said "Baby Beach. Have fun!" Some families were in the water, splashing about. We stopped at Coconut Coasters to check into renting some bikes and talked with a nice young woman who also offered to set us up with helicopter tours and snorkeling gear.
We stopped at a little thrift store, where I found some useful containers, but my real find was a vintage pyrex teapot like this one:
I needed a teapot for the apartment, and I knew Chris didn't have a teapot. After we did a little grocery shopping in town, we went home for lunch. After lunch we went to Lihue and did some more grocery shopping.
After supper this evening we decided to explore the steep hillside behind our apartment. Our host, Dan, had suggested it was worth checking out all the trees, including avocado, cashew, tangelo, pomelo, lemon, curry leaf, bay leaf, allspice, fig, guava, Asian pear, mango, lychee, longan, banana, and coconut. We looked around but failed to recognize most of these. The mosquitoes definitely recognized that we were incautious enough to come into a wet, green area at twilight. They feasted on us, so we decided to explore more later.
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