Kauai Day 8

We got up, feasted for breakfast in our kitchen, and headed to the surf shop. Rented a 5’10” skinnier fish board today, and it was definitely the smallest volume board I’ve ridden. It took a minute to catch some, as they were bigger waves that day, but I got some really nice ones, and was psyched on how the board felt. The fins were pretty small, which makes me want to changed out my glassed on fins on my board for fin boxes so I can make different fins for it (already in the process of doing this now!). We went back and cleaned up the room and checked out, and then went back to the beach to surf some more, while Mel went to some shops in town. After this, we returned the board, and headed to Anini beach to make lunch and hang out. We dried out our tent and gear from the two nights before when it poured on us.

The Hanalei Inn

Cozy, awesome setup

Flowers just outside room

Board for the day

Then we headed to Secret Beach, which we read about in our travel book, so it wasn’t so much of a secret, but was very unpopulated, and unmarked. It’s also commonly known as a nude beach, or that it is accepted, so we saw a few people going for it here. The scenery at this beach was pretty awesome, with large trees and rocks, and cliffs right up on the beach, along with a lighthouse on one end. We relaxed here and watched guys surf gnarly waves, then headed out and went to the Kapa’a to hang out and get Thai iced teas again. They were good, but not as good as the first time unfortunately. We headed to Lydgate Beach after this b/c we’d read about it and it sounded cool, but we hadn’t made time to get there. We made dinner here and hung out – it wasn’t as cool of a beach as we thought, compared to others, but it was still nice. We realized we had a few food items, such as peanut butter left over, after we made dinner, and I didn’t want to waste it, so I started eating as much peanut butter as possible, but couldn’t finish it all, as I was already stuffed from dinner when I started, and we even still had leftovers from dinner cuz we were both stuffed. Needless to say, I didn’t’ feel super hot, and Mel also felt stuffed. We returned the car, headed to the airport, and relaxed, trying to help our bellies feel a bit better. We had an overnight flight to Phoenix at least, so we slept most of the way there. Then we got to hang out with Sean, Brad, Brett, and Dylan in Phoenix for our 6 hour layover that I accidentally purchased instead of a 45 minute layover. It worked out though and was super fun to see those dudes! Needless to say, we were exhausted by the time we got to our place that evening. The trip was incredible, and also incredibly exhausting. If you can't tell by now, this island is highly recommended by us, and we are sure to return!

Looking back up the trail down to Secret Beach

Incredibly psyched on life

Secret Beach, pretty empty!