More Hawaii pics

Okay--here are several more Hawaii pictures in random order. These first 2 are at a coffee plantation that we toured. It's actually the largest one in the States. Robbie, of course, had to come home with multiple bags of it. I'd never toured a coffee plantation before, and I thought the coffee plants were pretty cool--I love how the cherries on some of them grow in little clusters. Inside of each of those cherries is one or two coffee beans. If I heard right, the ones with only one bean in them are rarer and tend to roast more evenly...you learn something new every day!
Here are a few random pictures of our resort. It was so beautiful--we totally felt rich!



We both took novels to relax with, and our favorite spot by the pool was the mini "beach" with the 2 lounge chairs next to the waterfall. Don't know if you can see it, but it even had sand in that area--we loved to lay there, soak up the rays, read our books, doze off for a bit, ... Ahh...quite the life!
This is a plumeria tree--my favorite. The flowers smelled soo good, and each morning there were fresh ones that had just fallen to the ground. I had to join in and keep one in my hair most of the time!


The photo above was taken on our sunset cruise. It was pretty cloudy, so sadly we weren't able to see the sunset, but the view of the mountains was so great. My favorite part of the cruise was having probably 30 dolphins swimming in front of our boat--soo cool! We also saw 2 whales, a mom and her calf, but they were a little too far away for a good picture. A LOT of people got seasick--buckets were being passed out all around us--so Robbie and I escaped to the bow and rode the waves up there. It was a pretty rough ride, but tons of fun.
Here's a little video clip of our dolphins that joined us.


There was an overlook close to our resort with this gorgeous view--these are taro fields. Taro is one of the oldest cultivated foods in the world. They grind it and make a starchy paste out of it called poi--I had Robbie taste test it at the luau. Didn't pass the test, so I decided to pass on it!

Yummy shave ice! I especially liked it with macadamia nut ice cream on the bottom. Sounds strange, but it was delicious.
This is the beach where "I'm gonna wash that man right out of my hair", from "South Pacific" was filmed. Another one of Kauai's beautiful beaches with hardly anyone on it. We were shocked that we often had almost the whole beach to ourselves!
On our last night, we walked down the path at our resort to a little private beach to watch the sunset. The picture above looks like it's in broad daylight, but it was actually right when the sun was going down. A great ending to our time there.
Here's Robbie enjoying his cup of Kona coffe at the airport on our way home. We had a blast--I want to go back. I'm dreaming of how we can get our kids over there someday--they would LOVE it!