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| Acacia trees |
Aloha from Kauai, Hawaii. Last year, we went to the Big Island, Hawaii,
but this year we are in Kauai. Today, we explored the south part of the island. We went snorkeling in Poipu Beach. Kauai is very green and on the way to Poipu Beach
we saw thick, tall, green vine type trees.
We also saw many tall flat top trees called Acacia trees. We noticed many different shades of green in
the forest, going from light yellow-green grass, green trees, and finally dark
green trees. There were many cows
grazing on the green grass and also roosters, chickens, and baby chicks
waddling and eating the grains from the grass.
It was my first time seeing real roosters, chickens, and baby chicks!
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| Cows grazing |
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| Chickens Waddling |
When we
arrived on the beach it was raining warm rain.
We waited until the rain stopped, and then we headed out to the
beach. We put on our snorkels and fins
and then went into the water. The fish
in the water were the prettiest that I have ever seen. There were huge rainbow fish, striped fish,
and other different color and types of fish.
Check out my last years Hawaiipost that has a page of a book with the types of fish we saw. A Hawaii
local gave us a tip that the fish love frozen peas. My mom gave us a few to feed the fish while
snorkeling. The fish would swarm around us
to and nibble the pea out of our fingers.
Poipu Snorkeling Beach
was a lot of fun!
In the
afternoon, after the snorkeling we went to Spouting Horn. Spouting Horn is lava rock with holes inside
it. When an ocean wave hits the rock and
water comes in the holes of the lava rock, the water inside the hole spouts out
like a whale. It was very interesting
and wet!
Have you ever gone snorkeling?
What was the most interesting thing you saw?
Today in Kauai we visited
the Waimea Canyon also known as the Grand Canyon of the Pacific. To
me the canyon looked like a miniature Grand Canyon but with a lot of green
plants all over it. It is much smaller than the Grand Canyon, only 26
miles across and 21 miles north to south, but it has tall mountains, deep
canyons, rivers, and waterfalls. Captain Cook was the first one to set
foot and discover Waimea Canyon 1778. What
was so interesting about the canyon was its colors. The canyons colors
were red, green, blue, gray and purple which was very attractive to me. 
We hiked the
Canyon Trail up to the waterfall. In the beginning the trail was shady, cool, with great views. However, the last half a mile, the hike became very difficult because most of it was up hill and
at times had also steep drops. Sometimes we also had to climb rocks. On the way we sang different
songs. We also stopped at different viewpoints to see the canyon from different locations. At one of the viewpoints we even saw a wild
goat!
