By request more of our trip to Kauai

By request I will show you some more of our trip to beautiful Hawaii. Kauai is known as the Garden Isle, it is the least developed of the Hawaiian Islands and only 20% of it is accessible by car. If you want to see most of it you need to do it by hiking, by helicopter or by boat. There is only one main two lane road and after driving about 40-50 miles you have gone as far as you can go.

In the first picture you see the view from our condominium

at the Sealodge complex near Princeville on the on the North

shore or Napoli coast of Kauai.

In the next picture you see the condominium. The complex

itself sets on a 50 foot cliff overlooking the ocean.

The next day we got up to a marvelous view of the sunrise from our window.

We then hiked down over the cliff, through the woods, fording a stream, climbing over the lava rocks to Sealodge Beach. This may seem a little rugged, but making the hike while wearing hiking boots is definitely better than wearing flip flops as we had done four years ago while visiting Kauai. Here I am most of the way to the beach.

The next picture is at the Sealodge Beach. When we arrived only one other couple

was there and they soon left leaving us alone for the next four to five hours.

King of the Mary-go-round

In today's short article we are back at Lake LeAnn, this time at the playground. It is winter with lots of snow, but we always found something to do outside. I am not sure if we were very active kids and loved to go out and play or if mom just told us to go outside and find something to do -- but it seems like no matter whether it was winter or summer, we were always outside playing.

This particular day, we are at the lake and playing at the playground. It is something in February-March 1963.

Left to right, we see Bob, Rich, and Tim standing on top of the Jungle Jim

Here we are on the Mary-go-round. We would make it go faster and faster, all the time throwing snowballs at each other or trying to knock each other off of the Mary-go-round. Left to right we find Pat, Bob, and Rich.

We would rest and start all over again. L-R: Rich, Tim, Pat and Bob.

And being the biggest kid there, I would inevitably end up "King" of the Mary-go-round game. But rest assured we did have supervision and the game did not get out of control. L-R: Rich, Dad and Bob.