Around Kauai

 This is our last full day on the island of Kauai. We have had a wonderful time seeing things so warm and green in the midst of our winter at home.  

The staple starch in the traditional diet here is poi, made from the roots of the taro plant.  The taro is related to the elephant ear plant and is farmed, like rice, with its feet in the water.  The great green fields are very beautiful in themselves. Hanalea Valley, nearby, is a great farmland for taro.

Yesterday we went in a ride to the other side of the island.  While not as green as the very wet North Coast (we are told that the mountains above here easily get 500 inches of rain in a year), the rivers born in the mountains still send them waterfalls.  We stopped at two of them.

Back at our little house today for sun on the beach and rest on the lanai.  This has been a perfect vacation time for winter.