Travel Blog ~ Kauai Vacation: Part 3 ~ Days 6-8

Our Hawaiian adventure continues...
To read the first 2 parts click here for days 1-3 & here for days 4-5

Thursday Day 6: I could get used to this life, waking up on the east side of the island and seeing this, I could definitely do this everyday!

We went over to the southwest side of the island and found the most absolute perfect spot for swimming, snorkeling and soaking up the sun, Salt Pond Beach.

 All that's missing is a hammock :)

 We brought our GoPro and had some fun a while we were snorkeling.

We drove around and finally found glass beach in Port Allen, and to our surprise it was also a black sand beach! This beach used to covered with broken polished glass pieces from shipwrecks, but now there is just a little bit left because beachcombers just can't leave it alone.

 Next we drove to Kauai Coffee and enjoyed free samples of delicious coffee. Kauai is home to the largest coffee farm in the United States with over 4 million coffee trees on 3,100 acres.

 Coffee Beans

 Touring the plantation

Then we stopped in a little town called Kekaha and got some yummy shave ice, it was completely acceptable to have at least one shave ice a day, sometimes two lol! These are not your average 'snocones', these are fluffy and soft and not icy at all...mmm my mouth is watering.

 Banana trees, but we didn't see any monkeys around ;)

 We drove back to Salt Pond to watch the sunset and it was beautiful. This island is picture perfect!

Friday Day 7: We decided to have an extremely low key day and I didn't even bring my nice camera, just the iPhone. We booked a beach side couples massage and it was fantastic! 80 minutes of pure bliss, plus a complimentary coconut oil scalp massage, ahhhh! We went with KauaiCouplesMassage.com, you can see their website here. Tiffany & Victoria were wonderful!

 Our view from the cabana, The Coconut Coast, although I just looked at the backsides of my eyelids ;)

 We spent the rest of the day lounging on the beach, swimming, and then we went to Haena on the north side, and watched the sky turn to pastel sherbet as the sun went down.

 Saturday Day 8: Our last day, boo hoo hoo! We had to checkout of our condo at 10am, so the rest of the day was spent driving around, eating, and hanging out at the beach. We didn't fly out until 11pm so we had all day to just relax and soak in every last drop of paradise. We had a nice little picnic lunch on the east side of the island in Kapaa at Lydegate Beach Park.

These hibiscus were awesome!

The next thing we did was go to Kilohana and check out Koloa Rum Co. They offer free rum tasting and they make their rum for sugar cane and rainwater, according to Alan, it is amazing ;)

 Then we went to Poipu on the south side of the island. We spent some time at Shipwreck Beach under the palm trees.

Coconut Trees. Be careful there are more deaths caused by falling coconuts than by shark attacks!

 Then we drove a few miles down the beach to Spouting Horn, a blowhole that erupts continuously.

I was craving one last shave ice so we stopped at a little shopping center with restaurants and fun little shops in Poipu. I got my shave ice and enjoyed the last of the beautiful tropical flowers, and Alan had Hawaii's official drink, a Mai Tai.

It's our Hawaiian tradition to find a tiki man and snap a picture with it :)

 We had dinner at Brennecke's Beachfront Restaurant in Poipu and watched the last sunset of our vacation, sigh...aloha Hawaii. We left crying, kicking and screaming Poipu and returned our car and waited for that red-eye flight back home.

 I'm not entirely sure how long I could stay in paradise and not get homesick. I love this place! Alan and I even found a little piece of heaven that was for sale while we were there. We dreamed, and imagined not ever leaving and just staying there in paradise. But that little slice of land was a little out of our budget, but only by a million or so dollars lol!

Until we meet again Aloha Kauai...
Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high...