Waimea Canyon

Our first mission today was a trip to the Verizon store in Lihue to get a new Galaxy phone for Ken. The one that was drowned was a Galaxy 4S. He decided to replace it with a Galaxy 5S, so he did get some benefit to make up for the hassle of having his phone bricked. I decided to hold off on buying an iPhone and instead got a prepaid Verizon LG. so now we are back in business, in touch with the world. at least Ken is: he has all of his contacts and most of his apps back. I have a cell phone but so far no contacts.

We went to Waimea today finally.

We drove around the coastline to the town of Waimea, where we turned north along Waimea Canyon Road. We stopped at several overlooks along the way. One was especially spectacular, but each offered a different perspective of the canyon and its many waterfalls.

At Kokee State Park we stopped to talk with one of the staff at the museum. By this time it was too late to go on any long hikes today but we asked about good hikes for this weekend. She was extremely knowledgeable and helpful. We left to drive north to look out over the Na Pali cliffs. When we first arrived there was no view at all because of the clouds and fog. A man who was waiting at the lookout suggested that it had been sunny and spectacular a few minutes earlier. He said it was worthwhile to wait a few minutes to see if the weather changed.

He also suggested that we go look at a tree or plant with extremely large leaves. We went on to the final lookout at the end of the road. At first we had only a glimpse of a cliff looming out of the fog. Within a few moments as promised the sun was shining brightly and had burned off most of the mist. We could see the spectacular tall Na Pali cliffs and the restless blue Pacific and several boats.

On the way home we looked for a food truck named Tiki Tacos that had really good Yelp reviews. We never found it, so we ended up at another food truck where we got some decent fish tacos, but nothing to write home about.

[photos later]