A few of my favourite things, HI continued:
You know what I'm going to say...a few more of my favourite things to do: hiking, geocaching and painting. Especially on a tropical isle.
Blogless Marsha's David took us on a "walk" in the neighbourhood where we were staying. The destination was the Queen's Bath and, bonus, it has an earthcache. Sounds innocent enough, a crystal clear natural pool along the shore, you can swim with tiny tropical fish and gentle sea turtles and get credit for a geocache. Except in winter.
The walk down was treacherous, but I was well equipped with hiking sticks and appropriate shoes. Brand new shoes with bits of white on them. Kauai is known for their red dirt that is so colourfast, they sell famous t-shirts dyed in it. Get any mud on your clothes, or new shoes, and accept the new colour pattern as your Kauaiian souvenir.


As we approached the bottom we saw this sign with over 30 notches in it:

The rest of the way to the bath was over my favourite Hawaiian hiking surface, igneous lava rock. Remember when I had face-to-rock contact a number of years back, while geocaching on Maui? My Maui Owie. The lava always wins, said the doctor while stitching me up.
I continued with huge respect for the terrain, like walking on rock made of wet shards of glass. I know there's a pool here somewhere.


We were later informed, by a local in-the-know, that the Queen's Bath is far too dangerous in the winter, rogue waves happening every couple of hours. Ignorance is bliss. We saw others hiking down in flip flops, carrying beer and a mug of coffee! Click here to see what it looks like in the summer.
Can't go away without some art supplies, resulting in two paintings. One was from an online still life tutorial and the other a hibiscus we passed on one of our walks, glistening with rain drops.


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