{"id":429,"date":"2009-03-10T03:43:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T10:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/429"},"modified":"2009-03-10T11:14:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T18:14:41","slug":"images-from-kauai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/images-from-kauai\/","title":{"rendered":"Images from Kauai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cemetary2.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese headstone\" class=\"floatleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ll let the images tell the story.<\/p>\n<p>Well, with a <em>little<\/em> explanation.<\/p>\n<p>I was a pain in the butt today.<\/p>\n<p>Insisted that Kristin drive down dirt roads (many with DO NOT ENTER signs).  She was very patient and <a href=\"http:\/\/defyingsunshine.com\/2009\/03\/a-short-report\/\">humored me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of one such road, we discovered a very cool old cemetary &#8211; all the headstones were in Japanese &#8211; some from the early 1900&#8217;s. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cemetary1.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Cemetary\" class=\"floatleft\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tallfall.jpg\" alt=\"Tall falls!\" class=\"floatright\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>After another night of mesmerizing rainfall, the waterfalls were just as captivating as the day before.<\/p>\n<p>Every time we looked at the mountain ridge, we&#8217;d spot another fall that we hadn&#8217;t noticed before.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s incredible to think of how many feet these falls plummet, and the volume of water rushing through the several rivers that lead to the ocean.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/fallmts.jpg\" alt=\"Many falls\" class=\"floatleft\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p>On our drive to Haena Beach park, I again insisted on stopping so that I could photograph this lovely field of blue flowers. Ashley was particularly fond of the horses.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bluefieldhorises.jpg\" alt=\"Field of blue\" class=\"floatleft\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p>Across from the beach is the Dry Cave. Pretty cool&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/drycave.jpg\" alt=\"Dry Cave\" class=\"floatleft\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ashbeach.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley is a poser\" class=\"floatleft\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/castle.jpg\" alt=\"Building a sandcastle\" class=\"floatright\" \/> <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:right\"><\/div>\n<p>The day was mostly overcast and rainy &#8211; but the sun did come out for awhile, and we took advantage of it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/krisjn.jpg\" alt=\"Kristin &amp; J\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Neil\" height=\"215\" style=\"width: 274px; height: 215px\" class=\"floatright\" \/><br \/>\nAshley and J&#8217;neil played in the water, posed and we all built a sand castle.<\/p>\n<p>Until it rained us out.<\/p>\n<p> And we&#8217;re all jealous of Ashley&#8217;s abs&#8230;..  though she&#8217;s the only one who does a half hour of ab-tightening pilates every night before bed&#8230;..<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ashabs.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley &amp; J\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Neil\" class=\"floatleft\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p>My final photo demand of the day was a stop at the taro fields on the wayhome&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/taro.jpg\" alt=\"Taro Field\" class=\"floatleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More tomorrow&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;ll let the images tell the story. Well, with a little explanation. I was a pain in the butt today. Insisted that Kristin drive down dirt roads (many with DO NOT ENTER signs). She was very patient and humored me. At the end of one such road, we discovered a very cool old cemetary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/images-from-kauai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Images from Kauai<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyfriends","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}