Our days are starting to focus on the main event of the day which is lunch, dinner or both. Therefore this post is a bit of a mix of bits and pieces of Hawaii that I have not already written about.
Food
On the 8th we were down in Wailua (where we had that lovely lunch the day before) and were looking for a recommended place to eat, however it was at the other end of the daily Kaapa’a traffic jam and Lance had said he wanted a burger. Spotting a sign Burgers 100% beef across the road we took a chance and swung into the parking lot. My only criticism of the place was that the unisex toilet could do with a clean and I felt the need to hover and not sit. Other than than it was great. Lance had an ‘Original Burger’ that met the burger meter scale of excellence on the visual scale. He almost needed a bath after eating it. I had a Kenji bowl which was a bit like the Hawaiian Loco Moco without the egg. I have been wanting to try a Loco Moco but the egg has put me off. So here we go... a 100% grass fed beef patty, white rice, teriyaki, ponzu aioli, caramelised onions and cheddar. What a find! This meal cost us the same as the ordinary food truck meal that we had in Hanalei and was ten times better. In fact Lance is still talking about it.
The 2nd lunch (obviously the next day, not a second serve on the same day) was at a Mexican place called Verde in Lihue. We were hoping for something great as we had to drive 1 hour and forty minutes to get there. The service was good when we got there however thirty minutes after we had ordered we were still waiting for food and watching others who had arrived after us receive theirs. The waitress was walking past and stopped and asked what we had ordered and said it won’t be long. Lance received his coke but still no sign of our food. When the food did arrive, mine was outstanding. The fish tostada arrived looking like a mountain of salad topped with crispy potato sticks. I thought to myself “Hmmmm, it this just going to be just a lettuce thing?” But no it wasn’t! The seared fresh tuna was sitting on a crispy corn tostada with salad, guacamole, pico de gallo which is a salsa made with tomato, cilantro, onion and lime juice, chilli and chipotle sauce. I also ordered street corn which had five small grilled cobs on a sizzling hot plate with a dollop of some sort of yummyness on top. It tasted like mayo or sour cream with chipotle, lime, coriander and garlic all mixed together. This time I felt like I needed a bath. Lance said that his was okay, but he was still a bit hot under the collar about the hour wait with no explanation. They did say sorry when I paid, but if they had explained it before when the mistake first happened we would have been likely to tip higher. Still, it is a great place to eat.
Driving has been a lot easier on my nerves since Lance found the ‘lane assist’ function on the car. Now it beeps when he wanders out of the lane and I don’t have to nag. It also pulls him back into the lane like his car at home. And there have been road works that we have passed every day but now realise that the truck is supporting the powerlines. Maybe a pole is on order.
There have been several incidents where we are both standing on the wrong side of the car and realise that it is a left hand drive.
On the second day as we drove out of the main street that enters Princeville Lance cried out “Look at that fountain.” The truth is that the huge Roman style fountain had been there the day previous, in fact I had pointed it out to him. But he was concentrating so hard on staying in the right lane and finding our way that he missed it.
Roosters
Lance has already posted on Facebook about the roosters, who will now be known as ‘those bloody roosters’. The island is covered with what looks like more roosters than hens. We have now investigated the breeding patterns as a result of the mating that is happening regularly outside our door. In fact it is more like a rape. But the powers that be really got one on the old rooster, there is actually no penetration in copulation because their equipment is not long enough!It wouldn’t be so bad if we were woken every morning by bloody roosters, but they start in the early hours. Some days it has been as early as 2am and they sound like they are on our pillow!
When I used the public toilets at the Waimea Canyon I found that the toilet door was a little short. Now I do remember posting a similar photo a few years back in Mexico. But they are short people. I don’t know what the story is here, when standing I could see right over the top!
The resort that we are staying at is very nice even though our room is a bit wanting we look out over the golf course to the sea and fortunately the weather has been cloudy and a cool 24 or 26 because we have no air conditioning. The whole area of Princeville is covered with resort style accomodation and has two large and very nice hotels.
Further south at Wailua we have been passing a derelict resort and I have finally remembered to google it. The Coco Palms resort was where Elvis filmed Blue Hawaii and many movie stars of old would stay there. It was destroyed in a hurricane in 1992 and the owners walked away and left it.
The other night as we were driving home in the dark we passed a cemetery and most of the graves had lights shining on the headstones.
We still haven’t seen any surfers and the seas have only got more ferocious. But we have seen kite surfers out there. Scary stuff.
Last night we ate locally at the Tiki Iniki in Princeville. It is a cool place and the service is good, but the food was nothing to write home about so I won’t.
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