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Day 168: Back to Kauai!

Thursday, June 21, 2012

This is the Spouting Horn in Kukui’ula. As the waves roll up to the shore, water is forced into lave tubes and is squirted out with weird noises. It is pretty impressive. There was a bigger one.  It threw water a hundred feet up or so.  A plantation owner dynamited it because it blew salt […]

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Cap’t Andy’s Cruise! Aftermath…

Monday, June 11, 2012

I guess we had too good of time out there on Cap’t Andy’s boat.  When we got back to shore there was no power.  A blackout covered about half of the Island of Kauai.  It is very strange to see McDonalds shut down at 9pm… We had to drive back to Lihue, about 20 miles, […]

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Day 162: Cap’t Andy’s Cruise! Part 10

Monday, June 11, 2012

Okay, I did find a few more whale photos… *** *** *** ~Curtis off the Napali Coast! {!-{>

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Day 161: Cap’t Andy’s Cruise! Part 9

Monday, June 11, 2012

Sunset.  It is billed as a Sunset Dinner Cruise, after all!  Note the other sailboat on the horizon. *** I don’t know if it deliberately ran in front of the sun or not, but it is a big ocean to sail in… *** Our Captain. One of the crew took these for us. She hit […]

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Day 160: Cap’t Andy’s Cruise! Part 8

Monday, June 11, 2012

A Whale Free post!  I promise!  But what’s THAT??? … Over there! That Splash! (Darned bouncy boat…) It’s a, it’s a, it’s a…Spinner Dolphin! And a pair by Cap’t Andy’s newest boat, the Southern Star! After this brief non-Whale stop, we were off again for our port and the setting sun! ~Curtis off the Napali […]

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Day 159: Cap’t Andy’s Cruise! Part 7

Sunday, June 10, 2012

A six photo panorama.  I didn’t leave enough room on each photo for it all to be squared off.  So much for using the Dailylife Wife’s camera! {!-{> This is what it looked like to the people in the canoes who first found Kauai.  Without the guy on the right with the digital camera. Click […]

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Day 158: Cap’t Andy’s Cruise! Part 6

Sunday, June 10, 2012

We had been motoring into the wind to this point, so we could get up to the Napali Coast, see it, and return, to see the sun set nearer to the dock we started from.  But now we raised the sails!  Or rather, this member of the crew did. We also turned back downwind about […]

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Day 157: Cap’t Andy’s Cruise! Part 5

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Past the Pacific Missile Range Facility is the start of the Napali Coast. Of course, we can’t forget the NASA Tracking Site! One of our sister ships sailing in the sun…never mind the Whale blowing on the horizon! Some of the best beach accommodations are actually the cheapest!  You just have to be in the […]

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Note: How >>Not<< to Photograph Whales...

Sunday, June 10, 2012

…or other things from a small boat!   I think I mentioned somewhere that I missed a lot of good photos on Cap’t Andy’s Cruise.  It wasn’t their fault!  I took too much lens (my 400mm).  When the boat is bouncing up and down two or three feet it is really hard to keep that […]

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Day 156: Cap’t Andy’s Cruise! Part 4

Saturday, June 9, 2012

The last of the whales…for a little while! *** *** *** *** *** ~Curtis off the coast of Kauai! {!-{>

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