Kauai Day 7

Tuesday morning I took the kids over to the ponds at the entrance of the Bali Hai Villas to feed the fish. One of the employees had bags of fish food for the kids, and was there to answer any questions they had about the fish. They thought that was a lot of fun.

The main pool was being worked on when we got to Bali Hai, but it opened up for the last couple days of our stay.

I took the kids to that pool after we fed the fish. It had another beach-like area, fountains, and two hot tubs. One was hotter than the other, and we all loved the not-as-hot tub. There were a few people reading on the chairs, but the kids had the pool to themselves.

Tessa's always good about posing for a picture for me.

Paul did a little more grocery shopping for us while we swam. While he was at the shops he went back to the General Store/Gas Station and got some poke. It's a very common sushi on Kauai, so he wanted to try it. He said it was good, but he wouldn't crave it.

The concierge told us about a few beaches when we checked in, and said Lumaha'i Beach was a good one for kids. But when we looked it up on you tube, everything was videos about how enormous and dangerous the waves are. It wasn't too far beyond Hanalei Bay, so we decided to check it out and if it wasn't great then we'd just go back to Hanalei. We also stopped at Queen's Bath on the way out for the afternoon. That was the last touristy spot that I really wanted to see. When we got there, the gate was padlocked and there were signs saying it was too dangerous to enter when the gate is locked. I was bummed, but hoped that in the morning the tide would be different and we could try again. We drove to Lumaha'i Beach and the kids and I stayed in the car while Paul checked it out. Even from the parking lot, which was a good distance from the beach, I couldn't believe how big the waves were crashing. I couldn't actually see any part of the beach, but I could just see huge waves rising up over the trees. Paul said it definitely was not a beach for swimming. So we went back to Hanalei Bay and had another fun day there.

There's a river flowing out of the ocean, and we saw people kayaking and paddle boarding on it. I walked up the river for a while to a place that looked like it rented kayaks. Turns out it was a private canoe club, but luckily the lady was really nice about me wandering through it. :) I had been hoping there would be a place to rent surfboards or paddle boards at one of the beaches, but there was not. You had to rent those in a town and then transport them to the beach yourself, which we didn't have room for. The river was really pretty though. :)

The waves were super low at Hanalei Bay this day. The water is shallow for so far, you can walk out forever and the water only gets up to about my waist. Paul and the kids found a sand bar way out in the middle of the water, where the waves would just lap around your ankles. 

It looked so weird to see them super far out in the middle of the ocean, just walking around in shallow water. We all hung out out there and made giant holes in the sand bar, dug for shells, and had a blast.