K`auai to O`ahu October 11

Feral Chickens and young.  The feral chickens are quite beautiful.

After another sumptuous breakfast of veggies and ham omelettes, this time, we packed out and headed for Lihue and our flight at 2 PM to Oahu.  The eggs here have a very different flavor.  We don’t know if all the free rangers produce eggs which are harvested, but the eggs are more flavorful.                As we drove the 25 miles to Lihue, we encountered our first deluge rain since arriving in Hawaii.  We had some mists on the Big Island, but this was a drainage system swamper in many places.  During a break, we went to the harbor near Lihue, but again no shore birds or even gulls!  We did encounter the ever-present feral chickens and photographed the evidence of continued reproduction in the wild. 

We also saw a huge cruise ship docked at Nawiliwili Bay.  We wondered how it turned around to get out of here as the inlet was quite narrow.  This is a very protected bay with surfers and board surfing.  We thought this would be a great place for our granddaughter, Allyson, who wants to surf, to come.  Now, how do we get the financing?!  Ann had earlier walked a beach and got too close to a breaker, ending up with wet sandals and pants legs.  She was wiser with the breakers on this protected bay.  

Protected Nawiliwili Bay and surfers

 

 

The wave builds and builds and washes over the wall at Nawiliwili Beach.

Our flight arrived in Honolulu about 2:30 and by the time we had our rental car and quarters at Hickam Air Force Base, it was almost 4 PM.  We’d not had lunch, so we decided to try the Sam Choy     Restaurant which is on Hickam Harbor inside the base boundaries.  We dined outside watching planes land across the bay with Diamond Head on our left and a gorgeous purple sunset on the right.  There was a man with a youngster who looked to be less than five (wearing a life vest) on a paddle board.  When the father got the board out to a breaker, the boy stood and used his short paddle to help ride the wave.  It looked precious!!  and it was a great ending to another day in Paradise!