KAUAI (cont.)

Next we had a nice lunch at the Calypso. We had a cool seat on the porch from where we had a good view of all the tourists passing through.
Olokele used to rent a beach house, on the beach at Hanalei, during the summer months. It was really nice. The Pacific Ocean was only a few yards away from the front yard. The plantation would let us take turns using the house to spend part of our vacations. I wanted to check the vacation house out while we were there. So we drove around for quite a while searching for the house. (It never used to be hard to find). After a fruitless search for a half hour, I talked them into giving up. The problem was that I couldn’t recall any landmark ford back to Hanalei. We the area. In addition, there was a lot of building that had taken place in the last 50 years. (After getting back, I checked with our daughter Anne about the house. Anne has spent quite a bit of time on Kauai in recent years, so she was a good source. She told me that Hurricane Iniki leveled the house in 1992 I didn’t think of that, I just presumed that it had been torn down.)


Olokele used to rent a beach house, on the beach at Hanalei, during the summer months. It was really nice. The Pacific Ocean was only a few yards away from the front yard. The plantation would let us take turns using the house to spend part of our vacations. I wanted to check the vacation house out while we were there. So we drove around for quite a while searching for the house. (It never used to be hard to find). After a fruitless search for a half hour, I talked them into giving up. The problem was that I couldn’t recall any landmark ford back to Hanalei. We the area. In addition, there was a lot of building that had taken place in the last 50 years. (After getting back, I checked with our daughter Anne about the house. Anne has spent quite a bit of time on Kauai in recent years, so she was a good source. She told me that Hurricane Iniki leveled the house in 1992 I didn’t think of that, I just presumed that it
it had been torn down.)
Then, I suggested that we drive along Hanalei Bay beach front, so that we could see the Hanalei Pier and the former Wilcox mansion near the Hanalei Pavilion Beach Park. We saw a large mansion on the green, but it wasn’t familiar to me. I suspect that Iniki got the old mansion too, and what we were seeing was a reconstruction of it. We retraced our route back to Kapaa.
We had a little down time to rest and get ready to head out once again for Poipu. We had reservations at the Beach House Restaurant for dinner. Anne recommended that we eat here so we could also see a great Poipu sunset. She also suggested that we have a mai tai on the huge outside veranda, at the Hyatt, on Shipwreck Beach. While our reservation at the restaurant was for 6:30, we left