Shellandria from Marlon's Camera

Same trip, but from Marlon's camera

Shellandria

The kids have been asking to go shelling at Shellandria.  We spent the better part of two hours beachcombing this spot.

The tide was supposed to be low, but it ended up being pretty full.  That prevented us from getting into the lower nooks and crannies.

Noe has been after the really red shells - not sure if there are any in these pictures but that's what we were doing - 

I'm going to have to remember to go here only when it is a full or new moon.  We had lots of fun regardless!  Next post will be same topic, but from Marlon's camera.

Glass Beach (And Still Day 2)

On the way down from Kokee, I took the family to Glass Beach. We could have spent way more time here... Then we had to get a snack - Kauai Kookies (which I like better than more other Pacific Islander brand cookies).

More of our first day on Kauai

This was one of the first (of hundreds if not thousands) chickens we saw up close - This was at a quilt shop just North of Lihue. I boarded a submarine.... Then we headed back to Lihue to meet up with Amy at Costco, but on the way, we checked out the Petco - and the almost $900 bird they had for sale... Then it was time to make our way to PMRF. We spotted in Hanapepe. There was a cool Hawaiiana Shop (but it was closed) - The pottery shop was open - this was the bench outside the shop (I didn't take any pictures of the inside - we can make everything they had). And we bought a Lilikoi Chiffon Pie from Wong's (check out the chili pepper water labels - "Don't Steal My Shit" And finally - the spot we'd lay our heads down at for the next three days Already beachcombing!

Moving On and Getting Productive

We left the wind swept beach and spent a few minutes at a more protected beach. Real treasure is spending time with the ones you love! Oh - and some shells ;) - real treasure is shells

Fun at Shelltopia

We took an early morning ride out to one of our shelling spots. Unfortunately the wind and swell overpowered the low tide. We did manage to have fun, just minus the normal shelling jackpots and plethora of fishing hits. We were able to catch our first Hawaiian Mole (or Sand) Crab!!! When I caught it, I thought it was one of these Ghost Crabs that we see all over the place. La finally got to use her "new" tool (which we got a while back) - a stainless steel hand rake! It proved very useful and would have harvested tons of cowrie shells (if there were cowrie shells on the beach). Noe and I tried to catch a baby fish trapped in a small tidepool (but my skunk transferred to catching fish by hand - arggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!) What was present in copious amounts were Man 'O War jellies. Here are some pictures La took (she likes the purple ;)