An early start saw us packed and ready for our transfer to the airport for our flight to the island of Kauai. This island is located north west of Oahu and is called the garden or nature island and is going to be a total contrast to Waikiki.
We had a seamless trip and entry to the airport, boarding was a doddle as well. After a 45 minute flight we landed in Kauai, grabbed our bags and jumped into our hire care a Hyundai Elantra. Our first stop was Walmart to pick up supplies and we found our way easily as it is only minutes away from the airport. It helped that Lance had his driving day yesterday on Oahu as he is doing well driving on the wrong side of the road.
Walmart was an experience in itself. Clothing, house old items and food. We grabbed breakfast things and a few snacks but thought we would get our cold stuff closer to home. We also grabbed beer and wine, and they had it! NZ wine! God bless Kim Crawford, Nobilo and Oyster Bay for doing a fine job in promoting their products in the USA!
The sights you see in Walmart!
Whilst Oahu is green and pretty this island is lush with plants choking anything that they can, climbing fences and creeping out onto the road. It reminds us of when we lived in Lae in Papua New Guinea. At one point the large trees had monsteria plants covering the trunks of trees high in the canopy.
We passed small towns and roads leading to beautiful beach resorts. Lance was thrilled to pass Turtle Bay golf course and resort. It looked beautiful with long manicured greens and deep bunkers.
It was necessary to stop for lunch and we came across a small village called Kapaa, so we pulled in. The first place that we saw was Pho Kapaa and that appealed so we wandered in. We love Vietnamese and were not disappointed with some deep fried prawns and egg rolls and a fried rice. Then we got back on the road to Princeville.
I spotted this car charging in Princeville. It has Christmas lights taped all over it! Imagine that coming along the road at night!
The accomodation that we booked is through our time share and we had left booking a bit late so were not expecting anything flash. As we got to Princeville we decided to stop at the small village and have a look around. It looks like we will have places to eat and a few shops. The food store is pricey but is a bit of a boutique food place. Cold stuff was purchased and it included two types of poke tuna. This is chopped raw tuna with spices, and this is dinner tonight.
The road to the Wyndham Ka’Eo Kai resort is quite posh and runs alongside the Princeville golf course. On arrival the rain was still coming down so we checked in and waited for our room to be ready. The concierge ran through everything with us and did the usual time share promotion, so we have booked in for a lu’au at half price if we go and listen to their promotion. Done, saved $120 US dollars.
After waiting for about an hour we in the comfortable lounge we got a complementary mai tai to drink and we were ready to go to our room.
We have been pleasantly surprised, the room is not luxurious but nice enough. The bathroom is almost as big as the room and we have a tiny kitchenette. When the weather clears we may even have a peep of the sea.
So here we are watching ridiculous TV on our 250 channels, trying to find something worthwhile. We do have a TV guide but have found that things are duplicated. For example there are two different travel channels but when you try them they are the same channel? The news is all Trump news (blah) and the movies are ancient.
The weather app says that it will be fine tomorrow and we hope that it is correct as we have a helicopter ride booked!
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